No Licence But Plenty Of Ammo: Brookline Police Logs

BROOKLINE, MA — Here's a sample of the types of calls the Brookline police responded to the week of Feb. 13 through Feb. 15 taken from the public log and the Brookline police blog, meant to give residents an idea of what people report to the police and what Brookline police respond to. Note that just because someone reports an issue to the police isn't necessarily the way it actually happened. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

Tuesday, Feb. 13

Arrested, No Licence, But plenty of ammo: Just after 2:20 a.m. a police officer saw a car run a red light on Boylston Street. When the officer pulled over the car they found that the driver had no licence, so they arrested 21-year-old Elias Woods, of Ashland Street in Brockton and charged him with being Not Duly Licensed. While inventorying the car, police found a small gray safe with an ammunition box with 36 rounds of .380 Auto FMJ rounds inside it. The safe also had various mail letters (with at least one addressed to someone in Roxbury), empty jewelry boxes and miscellaneous SIM cards and Micro SD cards. Police also charged Woods with Unlawful possession of ammunition and gave him a citation for running the light.

Porch Pirate: A Washington Street resident called to report a stolen package.

Faker: A bank on Harvard Street called police to report someone attempted to cash a fake check. When the bank employee told the man they couldn't give him he money he left in a hurry.

That's a really heavy empty suitcase: Around 3:45 p.m., an employee of a business on Harvard Street reported a man had come into the store, bought a suitcase and a few other things. While the man was at the check out counter the employee noticed the suitcase felt a bit heavy, opened it up and it appeared the guy was trying to hid more stuff in there without paying. When the employee confronted him about this he ran away leaving all the stuff - even what he had paid for.

Stolen? A Heath Street resident reported multiple pieces of jewelry were missing from her room.

Wednesday, Feb. 14

Warrant Arrest: Police arrested Val Dlaurent, 30, of Memorial Drive in Cambridge on Beacon Street at 5 a.m. on several warrants out for his arrest, including one out of Dorchester District Court for Breaking and Entering and trespassing, one out of Brookline District Court for three counts of receiving stolen property more than $250, and larceny of something more than $250. During the booking process police said they found booking drug paraphernalia, a New York State Thruway EZ Pass, a Money Gram card bearing the name and a Macy's American Express card bearing the name that wasn't his.

Thursday, Feb. 15

Attempted: On Thursday afternoon, someone called to report someone attempted to break into a home on University Avenue. The woman told police she heard her door bell ring, which prompted her to look out the front window. Then the woman heard what was described as a "squeaking noise," which appeared to be coming from her door, located inside a locked foyer. She soon realized that the noise had emanated from the side of her door to the door knob. She saw what she believed to be a credit card, being pushed in and out, next to the doorknob. Frightened, she yelled at whoever was behind the door. Upon receiving no response, she yelled again; asking this person to identify themselves. The person outside the door replied they were a mailman. The woman then unlocked the door looked out and saw a man running to a bike toward Beacon Street.

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