This is a partial list of younger people who were reported to be living in senior public housing and were arrested for committing crimes against their neighbors or others in the community. Senior housing is open to people under 60 (state rule) or 62 (federal rule) who are disabled. Disabilities can include drug or alcohol addition, and a variety of mental illnesses.

Ruben S. Chavis Jr. was 43-years-old and listed as living at Quincy’s Pagnano Towers senior housing when he was charged with assault and battery with intent to intimidate in April 2008. A woman told police that Chavis had grabbed her buttocks, headbutted her in the mouth and shouted racial slurs at her as she boarded a bus. The woman was black.

Chavis had already been convicted nine separate times and faced more than 28 charges for offenses ranging from assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, to kidnapping, to larceny and making threats. For those different crimes, he was sentenced to three to four years in prison and more than seven years in jail. The charges dated back to 1994 – before and during the time that he was listed as living in senior housing.

Brian Young was a 6-foot-tall, 300-pound man when he was charged in September 2007 with assaulting and attempting to rape an elderly woman in the elevator at Quincy’s Sawyer Towers elderly housing complex where they both lived.

The 71-year-old victim, described in police reports as frail and thin, said 59-year-old Young entered the elevator with her, slammed her against the wall, grabbed her vagina and her breast and said, “You went outside looking for a boyfriend.”

Young reportedly pulled back when another man entered the elevator. The victim told police she went back to her room and laid awake all night worrying over the incident, which she later reported to a friend and then housing authority officials.

Theodore E. Crough faced charges of open and gross lewdness and assault and battery against a police officer for two incidents in 1993 and 1996, but both were continued without a finding when he admitted to sufficient facts for a guilty verdict. He moved to Quincy’s Pagnano Towers senior housing complex sometime after the 1996 incident. In 2000, the 36-year-old was given a year of probation after he pleaded guilty to assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for attacking an MBTA employee who objected to him urinating in public.

He remained in the senior housing complex until March 2005, when he was charged with assault and battery on an elderly person and breaking and entering after he attacked his 67-year-old neighbor.

Richard L. Bushee was a 55-year-old schizophrenic living in Braintree’s McRae senior housing complex when police say he raped a cleaning woman in his apartment in January 2004. Police say he pushed the woman onto his bed, sexually assaulted her and fondled her. The woman was reportedly in hysterics and crying and her pants were unbuttoned when police arrived.

Bushee was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1968. He was charged with indecent assault and battery in 1985, but the case was dropped after he spent six months in a treatment center. He moved into the senior housing complex in 1988, the year congressional action made senior pulbic housing open to people with disabilities.

Bushee continued to live in the senior housing building for five weeks after his arrest while the Braintree Housing Authority moved to evict him. That ended when Bushee was found dead in his apartment from apparent “medical problems.”

Kevin P. Duffy was a 59-year-old living at Weymouth’s Harrington Circle senior citizen complex when police say he beat up his 75-year-old neighbor in January 2005. Police say the elderly man was getting his mail from the lobby when Duffy approached him and began punching him in the face while wearing 26 heavy silver rings.

Duffy, who told police he had lived in the building for 18 years, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on an elderly person and assault and battery while causing injury to a disabled person over the age of 60.

Police found copper strewn around the walls and ceiling of Duffy’s apartment, which he explained was to “improve his elec tronic signals.” Duffy’s case was dismissed at the request of prosecutors after he agreed to stay away from his victim served a pre-trial probation. He is now living in another senior building at the Weymouth Housing Authority, which housing officials say he was transferred to for medical reasons.