BB Gun Shots Fired In Brookline, And Other Police Logs

BROOKLINE, MA — Brookline police fielded calls about missing jewelry, a woman eating cookies in a vestibule and a dog bite so far this week. This is just an example of the types of calls the Brookline Police responded to so far this week taken from the public police logs and the Brookline Police blog. Note that just because someone reports an incident to police doesn't mean that's the way it shook out.

Monday, Feb. 4

Package theft: A Gorham Avenue resident called police to report she ordered two packages from Amazon but only received one. She received a notification from Amazon that two packages had been delivered sometime between 1pm and 3:30pm on Saturday.

Necklace gone: A woman came to the station to report a larceny from her home. At around 3 p.m. today she noticed her necklace missing from the jewelry box. Nothing else appears to be stolen from the home.

Missing Jewels: Officers were dispatched to an apartment on Clyde Street for reports of a larceny. A woman reports a theft of jewelry from her bedroom. She had last worn the ring on 1/14 and discovered it missing on 1/20. It appears that nothing else was taken from the bedroom.

Bitten: A woman was walking on Village Way when she approached a man with two medium-sized dogs on leashes. When the reporting party walked by, one of the dogs attempted to bite her back leg, she told police. The dog bite did not puncture the skin or injure the woman.

Tuesday, Feb 5

Shots fired: Someone called police to report they were Harvard Street for reports of a man shot with a BB gun. The reporting party told police he was exiting a taxi when a red sedan driving erratically almost struck him. The man told officers that when he held up his middle finger the car stopped, backed up, and then stopped to shoot the man with a BB gun several times. The car then sped southbound toward Harvard Street. Police are attempting to locate traffic surveillance cameras in the area. Patch has reached out to Police to inquire if anyone was injured.

Cookie Monster: Someone called police to report a suspicious person inside an unlocked vestibule on Beacon Street. When officers got there they saw a woman, matching the caller’s description, sitting with three opened packages in her hands. She claimed that she did not live in the building but that the packages were hers. Because of recent package thefts, police checked the labels and confirmed that the items were not hers. The woman told officers the packages were in fact hers because of the “diet she was on.” Two of the packages she apparently opened contained tea and Girl Scout cookies, some of which were missing. Police said she later admitted to eating the stolen cookies. Police said the woman was also found with other stolen items including identification cards and credit cards. Police arrested her.

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