From Fall River Wicked Local
Mark Wahlberg, star of box office hits Boogie Nights, The Perfect Storm, The Departed, Lone Surivor and more, and executive producer of Entourage and Boardwalk Empire, was one vicious dude in his teens. His rap sheet from the 1980’s reads like a series of scripts from brother Donnie’s NYPD series Blue Bloods. Of particular relevance today is that the former Marky Mark, now a huge Hollywood success, has business interests that could be helped if he were pardoned for his earlier crimes.
Mark Wahlberg (Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic)
At age 15, in June 1986, he and two other Dorchester toughs chased three black children, yelling “kill the nigger, kill the nigger,” and threw rocks at them. The next day, one of those children on a field trip from the Mather School to Savin Hill, recognized the three assailants from the previous day. Wahlberg and his friends followed the teacher and the students, yelling racial epithets, again throwing rocks and hitting them. The court ordered them to stay away from the neighborhood children.
Two years later, in April 1988, things got more serious. Wahlberg attacked Dorchester resident Thanh Lam as he was crossing Dorchester Avenue carrying two cases of beer. Wahlberg brandished a heavy wooden stick, called Lam a “Vietnamese fucking shit,” and beat Lam over the head, breaking the stick. As the criminal complaint describes, Lam “fell to the ground unconscious.” He was treated overnight at Boston City Hospital.
Wahlberg and his buddies fled the scene and, not long afterward, came upon another Vietnamese man, Hoa Trinh. He put his arm around Trinh’s shoulder to evade the police and, when the police had passed, punched Trinh in the eye, knocking him to the ground. Trinh lost the sight in that eye.
Later that evening, Wahlberg was arrested and readily admitted the attack, seemingly proud of what he had done and spouting a stream of racial slurs. The prosecutor asked for a two-year sentence for attempted murder, but Wahlberg pled guilty to assault. Instead of two years, Wahlberg did just 45 days in the Deer Island House of Correction.
He was into drugs and kept getting into scrapes, including a 1992 attack on a neighbor, in which he beat and kicked him “without provocation,” breaking his jaw. Eventually he started to turn things around. During the ’90’s, Marky Mark cut some records, had a couple of hits and was memorable posing in a provocative Calvin Klein photo campaign. Movie opportunities rolled in, and for the last 20 years he has been a highly paid celebrity.
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