Brookline Arrests: A Devoted Trespasser and a Badly Trained Bank Robber

The following reports detail Brookline Police Department arrests for the week of Sept. 28 - Oct. 3. Suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

• No arrests reported.

• Driving Drunk on Flat Tires – Eric Jeremy Smoller, a 31-year-old man from 371 Cardinal Medeiros Ave., Cambridge, was arrested around 1:30 a.m. near Harvard and Coolidge streets and charged with driving under the influence and driving on defective tires. Smoller was pulled over after an officer reportedly noticed him driving south on Harvard Street with a completely flat font right tire. When the officer approached the car and asked Smoller about the tire, he reportedly denied having a flat. Smoller's license was immediately suspended after he took a breath analysis test. Officer Noah Brother made the arrest

• Backroom Break In – Robert Otheathol James, a 45-year-old man from 43 St. James St., Apt. 301, Roxbury, was arrested around 8:30 p.m. near 1322 Beacon St. and charged with breaking and entering, shoplifting and furnishing a false name. A surveillance camera at CVS reportedly caught James wandering around a restricted "employees only" part of the store and stealing a razor from the cosmetics aisle. Officers reportedly found James carrying several warm prepared meals from that they believe were stolen from the Stop & Shop on Harvard Street. Officer Daniel Avila made the arrest.
• Champagne Heist – Terrence Darnell Ash, a 22-year-old man from 1064 Dorchester Ave., Apt. 3, Dorchester, Innocent Ifeyani Emebo, a 22-year-old man from 4 Deering Road, Mattapan, were arrested around 5:45 p.m. near 1317 Beacon St. and charged with shoplifting. Employees at Trader Joe's called police after noticing Ash and Emebo walking around the store with wearing backpacks and carrying bottles of alcohol in their hands. When police caught up with Emebo outside the store, they reportedly found three bottles of champagne in his backpack that he hadn't paid for.

• Too Young to Booze – Irina Pak, an 18-year-old Suffolk University student, was arrested around 5 a.m. near 11 University Road and charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol. An officer reportedly spotted Pak carrying a a bottle of vodka in a plastic bag while leaving a restaurant in Washington Square. Officer John Canney made the arrest.

• Unwanted Apple – James Thomas Rinaldo, a 44-year-old Brookline man, was arrested near 2 Fairbanks Street and charged with unarmed robbery. A woman told police Rinaldo had chased her and grabbed her umbrella from her after she refused to take an apple she offered him. Read the full story. Officer Noah Brother made the arrest.
• How Not to Rob a Bank – Michael James Lenane, a 29-year-old man from 378 Dudley St., Apt. 2, Roxbury, was arrested around 7:14 p.m. near 1016 Beacon St. Police say Lenane robbed a Brookline Bank on Beacon Street around 12:40 p.m. He was arrested after police found him in the trunk of a vehicle found near the robbery. Read the full story. Detective Kenneth McHugh made the arrest.
• No License – Jose Aguirre, a 31-year-old man from 298 Meridian St., East Boston, was arrested around 10:45 a.m. near 180 Boylston St. and charged with driving without a license and failing to stop for a red light. Officer John Canney made the arrest.

• Armed Robbery – Toris Durell Ellis, a 21-year-old man from 621 Fairview Road, Rockey Mountain, N.C., and Lavell Dashaun Brown, a 32-year-old man from 602 Briggs St. Wilson, N.C., was arrested around 5:30 p.m. on Washington Street in Dorchester and charged with home invasion and armed robbery. Terrence Rashaun Daye, a 21-year-old man from 165 Columbia Road, Apt. 8, Dorchester, was arrested around 5:20 p.m. near his home and charged with being an accessory after the fact and impeding a police investigation. Brown and Ellis are accused of robbing an alleged drug dealer in his Brook Street apartment last week. Police say Daye lied repeatedly about the whereabouts of the two men's whereabouts. Read the full story. Detective Keith Lacy made the arrest.
• Now That's Devotion – Christopher Frank Angelos, a 27-year-old man from 1669 Commonwealth Ave., Apt. 6, Boston, was arrested around 3:30 p.m. and charged with trespassing. Police say Angelos was found on Devotion School property three times on Sept. 30, despite receiving a verbal no-trespassing order early in the day. Read the full story. Officer Joseph Amendola made the arrest.
• Dress Theft – Hanna Caroline Dickie, a 26-year-old woman from 6 Greenwood Ave., Swampscott, was arrested around 11:15 a.m. in Coolidge Corner and charged with shoplifting. Dickie was reportedly stopped by an officer on detail duty after an employee at Mint Julep spotted her running off with a stolen dress worth $198. Officer Joseph King made the arrest.

• No arrests reported.