Why 2 Drivers Were Arrested After A Fender Bender In Brookline

BROOKLINE, MA —Police arrested two drivers after a fender bender that might have only called for an exchanging of papers and an insurance claim unveiled that neither was driving on a valid license and both had warrants out for their arrest, according to a police report.

On Dec. 13, a tow truck driver flagged down an officer to report a car had squeezed past him and broke the truck's side mirror. The officer told the two to exchange papers and went on with a previous call. A little while later the same officer was called back to the location for a report of one person not having a drivers license.

When the Brookline officer went back to check it out, the two men he'd seen earlier were there near the corner of Dummer and Pleasant streets. The officer said one told him he didn't have a license, so the officer sent both men's names and ages to get checked in the system and it came back that both were wanted for arrest and both, it turned out, lived at the same address.

Police then arrested Joshua Picanso, 27, of Elmood Park in Malden, and charged him Operating after Suspension and on three warrants, including two out of Concord District Court for operating after suspension and traffic offenses. Lowell District Court also had a warrant out for his arrest for larceny over $1,200, false pretense.

Jonathan Ohearn, 43, also of Elmood Park in Malden was also arrested near the corner of Dummer and Pleasant streets and charged on a warrant out of Malden District Court for shoplifting and another out of Chelsea District Court for uttering a false prescription.

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