A man down from Rye, NH with three OUI convictions under his belt was ordered held at a Massachusetts state substance-abuse treatment center after he was charged with ramming a tree, two parked vehicles and a traffic sign and driving the wrong way down a one-way street in East Boston on Monday, all while under the influence of compressed-air accelerant, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Boston firefighters encountered Matthew Moitoza before police after he slammed into a vehicle on Bennington Street near Wordsworth Street around 5:40 p.m. They spotted him sucking in fumes from an aerosol can, determined he was under the influence of something and, when he tried to drive away from them, punched holes in his tires, then pulled him out of his car and restrained him until