A person who prosecutors say huffed an aerosol can after crashing into two automobiles in East Boston now faces his fourth impaired driving cost.
“This was a wild, and wildly dangerous, incident on busy East Boston streets at one of the busiest traffic times of the day,” Suffolk District Legal professional Kevin Hayden stated. “I’m thankful for the 911 calls from witnesses and the quick action by Boston firefighters to immobilize this defendant before he or anyone else got hurt.”
Matthew Moitoza, 36, of Rye, New Hampshire, already has three working beneath the affect — OUI — convictions in his residence state. Due to this, his grey Lexus SUV is provided with an ignition interlock gadget, which requires him to blow into, and move, an onboard breathalyzer earlier than his engine will begin.
However, in accordance with prosecutors, that didn’t cease him from driving impaired in East Boston on Monday when police arrested him on fees of working beneath the affect of medicine — a fourth offense — driving to hazard and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident.
Moitoza was arraigned on the costs in municipal court docket in East Boston the subsequent day. There, Decide Debra DelVecchio declared him harmful and ordered him into the Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Middle for therapy. He’s scheduled to subsequent seem in court docket on Tuesday.
Boston Police at about 5:45 p.m. Monday acquired a name reporting a collision involving an intoxicated particular person within the 800 block of Saratoga Road in East Boston. Officers had been instructed the Lexus with New Hampshire plates struck a tree and a parked automotive and fled the scene towards Orient Heights and struck a second parked car round Bennington and Saratoga streets.
Witnesses instructed police that they noticed the car taking place the unsuitable means on Wordsworth Road, strike a parked Toyota truck, rear-end a Jeep, strike a “no stopping sign,” knock over a tree and injury a residential metallic fence.
Boston firefighters encountered the car and instructed police they noticed the motive force snorting from an aerosol can. Once they approached to speak to him, in accordance with a DA assertion, he tried to flee once more. The firefighters punctured his tires and hauled him out of the car “for public safety concerns.”
Police say Moitoza “was unable to perform any field sobriety tests” and that he appeared “animated, was shaking, sweating profusely, speaking in a rapid manner, and was confused” through the reserving course of. Police additionally report discovering two cans of “Klear Concepts Duster” within the car, one empty and one full.
