Boston man dealing with 22 costs tied to robbing 9 older ladies

A 22-year-old Boston man was ordered held with out bail Tuesday on practically two dozen costs tied to 9 separate robberies concentrating on older ladies, officers stated. 

Daneuris Diaz was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Courtroom, the place he pleaded not responsible and was ordered held pending a dangerousness listening to Thursday morning, court docket information present. 

Diaz was indicted June 23 on a complete of twenty-two costs: 5 counts of larceny by stealing from an individual over 60, 5 counts of larceny of a bank card, 4 counts of fraudulent use of a stolen bank card, two counts of armed theft, two counts of unarmed theft, one depend of assault and battery on an individual over 60, one depend of assault with a harmful weapon on an individual over 60, one depend of assault and battery with a harmful weapon on an individual over 60, and one depend of uttering threats, Suffolk District Lawyer Kevin Hayden’s workplace stated in a assertion.

Diaz is being accused of “routinely” concentrating on aged ladies whereas driving by them on a moped, the DA’s workplace stated. 

The fees stem from 9 separate incidents, starting on Nov. 26, 2025, when Diaz allegedly robbed an 85-year-old lady on Richie Avenue in Jamaica Plain, prosecutors stated. 

In the course of the incident, Diaz reportedly lifted his sweatshirt and motioned towards his waistband, the place the sufferer noticed what she believed to be a gun. Diaz then stated, “Give me every little thing you have got, or I’ll kill you,” in line with Hayden’s workplace. 

As Diaz allegedly fled with the lady’s belongings, prosecutors say, the 85-year-old fell and struck her cheek on the pavement.

Officers stated her stolen gadgets included a bank card, which was traced to a purchase order made shortly after at a Household Greenback in Dorchester. 

Diaz was arraigned within the Roxbury division of the Boston Municipal Courtroom and launched this previous February beneath pre-trial circumstances of house confinement and GPS monitoring, court docket information present. 

He was launched from house confinement on April 10, prosecutors famous. 

Beginning three days later and persevering with till April 25, Diaz allegedly carried out eight extra robberies concentrating on ladies between the ages of 44 and 78 in Dorchester, Mattapan, Mission Hill, and Jamaica Plain, Hayden’s workplace stated.

In two of these encounters, prosecutors say the victims sustained accidents after falling to the bottom. 

Investigators had initially recognized Diaz by earlier reserving images and a big rose tattoo spanning many of the prime of his proper hand. To hide this characteristic, prosecutors allege Diaz wore a glove on his proper hand throughout a number of of the April robberies.

Authorities later recovered matching clothes and two right-handed gloves from Diaz’s house that correspond with surveillance footage from the robberies, in line with Hayden’s workplace. 

“The details right here lay out a reprehensible sample of robberies and assaults concentrating on a few of our most susceptible residents,” Hayden stated within the assertion. “The painstaking work by detectives to establish and construct circumstances towards this particular person deserves monumental credit score and instantly enhances the security of our neighborhoods.” 

Diaz’s lawyer didn’t reply Tuesday night for a request to remark.