Knife In Coffee Shop, Asleep Behind Wheel: Brookline Police Logs

BROOKLINE, MA — Every day the Brookline Police officers respond to multiple calls. This is a sample of the types of calls they respond to, taken from the public police logs and the Brookline police blog online in addition to police reports. It's important to note that just because this is the way someone called in a report, doesn't mean that's how it shook out.

Dec. 27, 2020

License plate gone: Someone reported the rear license plate missing from their car.

Dec. 28, 2020

Package thefts: Officers took a package theft report form a resident of Bowker Street. Separately, a Longwood Avenue resident reported they received a delivered notification for a package. When they went to retrieve it they found that the package was not at their door.

Dec. 30, 2020

Flashes knife in Coffee shop: Police arrested a 30-year-old Braintree man and charged him with armed robbery after he walked into a Brookline Village restaurant just after 10:30 a.m., ordered coffee, showed a knife and walked out with the coffee and down the street. Police said as soon as the man saw police he threw a knife on the ground and raised his hands.

Package theft thwarted: Police arrested a 55-year-old Boston man and charged him with larceny from a building after they said they caught him in the act of taking a package from a Harvard Street apartment building.

Porch pirate: A High Street resident reported they had three packages delivered, but when they went to retrieve the packages they were gone.

Dec. 31, 2020

Shoplifter: Officers took a shoplifting report from a business on Harvard St. The employees reported that a customer had left the store without purchasing items.

He walked away: Police arrested a 71-year-old man from Jamaica Plain and charged him with operating under the influence of alcohol, operating after suspended license and leaving the scene of a car accident that had property damage. Someone called police just before 11:30 a.m. to report a man driving a pickup truck crashed into the curb near the intersection of Essex and Drummer street and then walked away.

Sad day at the reservoir: When police and fire rescue crews arrived, the dog was under the water and not moving, police said. Read more.

Jan. 1, 2021

Asleep behind the wheel: Police arrested a 32-year-old man from West Newton and charged him with operating under the influence of liquor, operating to endanger, failure to stop for police, leaving the scene of an accident, and having a container. Police said they found him asleep in his car on Washington Street in the travel lane just before 9 a.m. near the intersection of Park Street. When they woke him, he drove off, hitting a police cruiser in the process. After hitting a curb coming to stop down the road, police ordered him out of his car and arrested him, according to the report.

Bike theft: A Worthington Road resident reported that while in the backyard they noticed that the lock securing their garage door was missing. Upon investigation they noticed that their bike was missing from the garage as well.

Shoplifting: Officers took a shoplifting report from CVS on Harvard Street The employees informed officers that a customer came into the store, placed multiple items into a bag and left the sore without purchasing.

Larceny: A Linden Street resident reported they found a hanging planter and a metal planter were missing from their yard.