BOSTON - Prosecutors say a Boston man has been charged with robbing a city fire station while firefighters were out battling a three-alarm blaze.
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley says 40-year-old Desi Halsell was caught red-handed on Monday night by firefighters returning from a two-hour fight with a blaze at a home in the city's Roxbury neighborhood.
Halsell allegedly had a black hockey bag over his shoulder and was carrying a laptop computer belonging to one of the firefighters.
Conley called the alleged theft "a new low."
Halsell was held on $2,000 bail after pleading not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday in Roxbury District Court to breaking and entering, larceny, and possession of burglary tools.
His lawyer refused comment.
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