The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department Allston-Brighton District D-14 crime logs from
April 7 to April 13.
The manager of an Allston liquor store reported threats from a belligerent customer around 5 p.m. April 10. The manager banned the customer from his store after the customer entered and was “loud, obnoxious, threatening and belligerent” toward customers. The man, known for his habitual public drinking, has returned to the store several times and threatened the manager on multiple occasions.
CITIZEN CANE
Officers responded to a radio call for a robbery in Brighton at about 3:05 p.m, April 9. Upon arrival, officers met with the resident provider at an assisted living center. The woman said three men assaulted a resident of the center. They knocked him to the ground and searched through his pockets. He had no money on him so the men stole his cane.
METAL MOUTH
Officers responded to a radio call in Allston for a breaking and entering in progress at approximately 12:35 p.m. April 13. BU students woke up to the sounds of someone breaking a door down in their Ashford St. apartment. The would-be trespassers fled when the students went to investigate the noise. One of the students confronted them downstairs and one of the trespassers told the student he was looking for the person who kidnapped his sister. He then told the student to smile because the kidnapper had braces. He was with nine other people carrying bats and metal poles.
FRISKY BUSINESS
Two Brighton residents contacted police because they believed an intruder was in their basement at about 10:30 p.m. April 7. They heard noises in their basement and went outside to investigate. They saw a light was on in the basement that was not on an hour before and that a previously broken window had been barricaded. When officers tried to enter the basement through the door, they found the door was also barricaded. One of the officers saw someone leave from the house’s side door. After he refused to speak to officers, officers patted him down and found a screwdriver, wrench and hex key toolkit. He was arrested for breaking and entering and possession of burglarious tools.
OPEN SESAME
Boston Police officers arrested a BU student at about midnight April 12. The student was walking through Allston with a friend and holding an open 12-ounce beer bottle. Officers approached the underage student and confiscated the bottle. The student was charged with underage possession of alcoholic beverage and drinking in public.
MACE MALFUNCTION
A woman noticed she was being followed when she was walking home from her job in Allston at 1:43 a.m. April 9. The man ran toward the woman and pinned her to the ground, putting a knife to her throat. He held her mouth closed, asking, “Where is the money?” She attempted to spray the suspect with mace, but it malfunctioned, so she hit him in the eye with the can instead. Two men in a nearby apartment heard the woman scream and ran out of the house to investigate. When the man saw them running toward him, he ran off. Police found the man and arrested him.
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