BOSTON (WHDH) - Four people were taken into custody Thursday morning after they were caught on the 46th floor of a building that is under construction near the site of the recent Government Center parking garage collapse, authorities said.
Officers responding to a report of people on the roof of the building on New Chardon Street at Merrimack Street around 5:45 a.m. found the individuals in question inside the structure and placed them in handcuffs, according to the Boston Police Department.
“It seemed as if they had climbed scaffolding to get there,” the prosecutor told those assembled in court later.
The arrests were made near the site of Saturday’s deadly garage collapse. An excavator and about 100 tons of debris fell nine stories from the garage and landed above the subway tunnels near the Haymarket MBTA stop.
The garage was in the process of being demolished when a portion of it collapsed.
Police did not say what the four people were doing in the building. Because the men are all young with no records they are getting a chance to make things right and avoid trespassing charges.
There were no additional details immediately available.
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