Voodoo Priestess Runs Over Supposed Adulterer With Car, Say Police

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An alleged practitioner of voodoo has been charged with assault and battery. Judging from police documents, Josefina Martinez of 7 Lincoln St. is not an especially talented student of the mystic arts. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have to resort to running a suspected homewrecker over with her car.

At approximately 12:45 p.m., on Thursday, Feb. 26, police were summoned to an accident at the intersection of Cross Street and Pearl Street. There, witnesses told them that while a man and woman were talking on the sidewalk, an incoming automobile nearly mowed down the woman, whose injuries would have been worse if the man - Martinez’s husband - hadn’t pulled her out of the way.

The driver - Martinez - then jumped out of her car and proceeded to beat the woman with a snow brush while yelling “You (expletive)ing (expletive), I’m going to kill you! I know you’ve been sleeping with my husband!”

The victim fled into a nearby corner store, while Martinez started to drive away. After almost running over another witness, Martinez decided to get out of her car, and go to the corner store to beat the victim with her snow brush some more.

After Martinez was arrested and the victim brought to Somerville Hospital, the victim told authorities that she once considered Martinez a friend, but stopped spending time with her when Martinez revealed her affinity for black magic. Martinez then started harassing the victim with phone calls, alleging impropriety between her husband and the victim.

In one such call, the victim says, Martinez threatened to use dirt from a freshly-dug grave to do away with the victim via a death curse.