Braintree (MA) Police chief retires amid evidence room scandal

Boston Glob ^ | 9/22/16 | Allen

[outpostinmass2]

The origin of the name Braintree is obscure. One theory is that Braintree was originally Branoc’s tree, Branoc apparently being an ancient name. Another theory is that the name is derived from that of Rayne, which was actually the more important settlement in Norman times. Braintree, Essex was also called Brantry and Branchetreu[citation needed] in the Domesday Book and this means “town by the river”.[citation needed] The River Brain is another possible origin. “Tree” comes from the Saxon suffix, more commonly spelled “try”, denoting a big village. In many early American Colonial documents, it is referred to as Branktry.

[HandyDandy]

This is what Braintree on drugs looks like.

[Little Bill]

First move from Southie.

[csvset]

The total so far is one dead cop and one retired cop. Shouldn’t there be charges against other cops or was this woman a one woman crime wave?

[outpostinmass2]

She reported to a supervisor. The evidence room was suppose to be audited twice a year. From what I hear it was during an internal audit it was noticed that a few thousand dollars were missing and unaccounted for. Thus the Chief was forced to go to an external auditor. Who found even more money and drugs missing. The officer shot herself with her own gun. Her husband (retired Braintree deputy fire chief) returned 2 other missing guns obtained from their storage locker. One the guns belonged to convicted Boston police officer Flemmi (Brother of Steve Flemmi partner of Whitey Bulger)

[Gerberville]

Yes, outpostinmass2, that would be Stephen. Imagine that thing coming at you at night when you’re outside, screaming at you, calling you every curse he can think of in his drug-induced state, while your kids are inside wondering what the hell is going on. Or sitting on his back deck overlooking your yard, swearing at your dog, eyeing your kids, letting his pit bull slam up against the fence, and glaring at you with the look of death. But Massachusetts protects the corrupt from the non-corrupt, and the BPD is emasculated, so there was little I was willing to do except move.

[Pelham]

Borrowed from the town of that name in Essex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braintree,_Essex

“The origin of the name Braintree is obscure. One theory is that Braintree was originally Branoc’s tree, Branoc apparently being an ancient name. Another theory is that the name is derived from that of Rayne, which was actually the more important settlement in Norman times. Braintree, Essex was also called Brantry and Branchetreu in the Domesday Book and this means “town by the river”.

The River Brain is another possible origin. “Tree” comes from the Saxon suffix, more commonly spelled “try”, denoting a big village. In many early American Colonial documents, it is referred to as Branktry. The name “Braint” is well attested as a river name in Britain; there is a river of that name in Anglesey, and it may be conjectured that it was the name of the Blackwater in pre-Saxon times, although the Celtic name “Bran” is also used widely for rivers (derived from the British word for a crow and thought to refer to the dark or crow-black appearance of such a river, making it a good fit for a river now called “Blackwater”).

Here again, the reference to a river would indicate that Braintree literally means “town (or village) by the river”. The suffix to either Braint or Bran is the common Britonnic “Tre” widely found in Wales and Cornwall, but also noted in towns such as Daventree, with the meaning of initially a farm or settlement and later a town. Another variation can be seen in various Medieval Latin legal records, where it appears as “Branktre”.”