Seventeen years after Eddie Ghassemi inquired at City Hall about remodeling his gas ... station at 504 N. Avenida de la Estrella without having to take down its 75-foot-tall freeway pole sign.

When they arrived, officers found a roughly 6-foot hole in the gas station’s back wall. The driver was not there, Duphily said. A Massachusetts State Police Trooper, who was at the gas station ...