There’s something cute sniffing around the Boston Police HQ but no one there knows just what to call it.

“This beauty is the Boston Police Department’s new comfort dog,” the department wrote of the new fox red labrador retriever they said “joined the world in December.”

The only trouble is, the pup that the department’s media team posted pictures of in heart frames doesn’t have a name, and they want the Boston public to help them with that.

The puppy will serve as the department’s “comfort dog” and her training for that role will be posted to the department’s social media platforms. That’s also where the BPD asks you to vote on a name.

On the departments account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @bostonpolice suggests four name options: Copper, Faith, Hope and Trusty. But social media users offered up scores of their own suggestions, like Miranda and Chloe on X and Callie, Cheer and Roxy on the department’s Facebook page.

An Oxford man out on bail for allegedly dealing drugs goes back to jail on new charge

On March 18, MBTA Police officers say they saw a familiar sight: one man would bring other men, one at a time, into a South Station bathroom for a few minutes at a time. Since they say they’ve had to call EMS for drug overdoses from that same bathroom in the past, they believed narcotic trafficking was happening there again.

Their instincts might have been right, because not too long after, police arrested Sean Lavin, 29, of Oxford, outside the station and charged him with carrying a dangerous weapon (knife), two counts of assault and battery on a police officer, possession of a class A substance (subsequent offense), possession with intent to distribute a class A substance, trafficking heroin, trespassing, loitering in a railroad or railway station, and resisting arrest.

“This is a good example of an offense that can grind neighborhoods down and affect how people go about their daily shopping routines and their daily commutes,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden said in a statement. “We have no intent of clogging up jails with low-level, nonviolent one-time offenders, but we are not going to tolerate repeat offenders who impact the quality of life our residents and visitors expect and deserve.”

Boston Municipal Court Judge Joseph Griffin ordered Lavin held on $25,000 bail and revoked his bail in a pending Roxbury case where Lavin was already charged with dealing drugs.

While Transit Police didn’t see Lavin actually dealing drugs in South Station, they issued him a trespass order since he wasn’t taking any trains and told him to move along. Police say they saw him sitting outside the station’s Atlantic Avenue entrance and again told him he was trespassing and to move along.

“I didn’t do anything, I’m leaving,” Lavin said, according to police, just before he stood up, pushed both of the officers and then stumbled and dropped what police described as a black double-edged survival-type, foot-long knife.

After a brief foot pursuit, officers detained him and said they found nearly 40 grams of suspected heroin across 25 individually wrapped baggies that Lavin had stored in a fanny pack.

NYC man indicted for Christmas Somerset triple-fatality

Prosecutors say New York City’s Adam Gauthier, 41, was drunk when he mowed down a pair of grandparents and their 15-year-old grandson in the Somerset last Christmas evening.

Somerset Police arrested the former Somerset resident a little after 11 p.m. last Christmas following a crash that killed Seekonk residents Floriano Arruda,73; Donna Arruda, 68; Jacoby Arruda, 15. Police say that he was driving in the wrong lane during the crash on the Somerset side of the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge.

Career Boston thief charged with shoplifting, again

Boston’s Paul Nicholson will have a busy April 17, as the Suffolk DA’s office said he’s due in the central municipal court that day for both a brand new shoplifting charge to add to his 12-page rap sheet and a pending assault case.

“We are keenly aware that a relatively small number of offenders commit a disproportionate number of crimes, including store-based crimes,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden said in a statement drawing attention to the broader issue of retail theft in Boston.

“Although the merchandise was recovered here, the incident is indicative of activity that hurts retailers, shoppers and the community itself,” Hayden added. “This man has been convicted of similar offenses before and will be held accountable for his continued threat to our retail establishments.”

Prosecutors say that Nicholson’s record dates back to 1981 and is chockablock with thievery-related counts. Those include two convictions for larceny in June 2022, for which he was sentenced to 120 days in jail.

In the immediate case, police arrested Nicholson at around 5:40 p.m. on Jan. 24 when security staff at the Prudential Center’s Saks Fifth Avenue had stopped him after spotting him allegedly stuffing expensive Alice and Olivia dresses into his jacket and trying to walk out. At $295 a pop, the four dresses they say he was trying to steal were worth $1,180.

Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden recently hosted meetings with retailers and small businesses on strategies to stop shoplifting.(Staff Photo Chris Christo/Boston Herald)