The following crime reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton District D-14 crime logs from Feb. 1 to Feb. 7.
On Saturday at about 6 a.m., a 66-year-old woman reported being interrupted abruptly on her way to work. She was walking along Linden Street in Allston as she always does, she said, but when she reached the corner at Gardner Street, she felt that someone was following her. When she stopped, a male grabbed her and pressed a gun to her chest. The victim screamed, causing the suspect to put the gun to her chest again. He grabbed her handbag before fleeing on foot. The purse had contained her keys, bank statement, her passport, her son’s passport and about $30.
City Co-rrectional facility
On Saturday at about 9:15 p.m., a 47-year-old woman was doing laundry at Express Laundry at 236 Brighton Ave. in Allston. The victim left her handbag on a table when she went to check on her clothes. When she came back her handbag was gone. The handbag contained $1,300. She noticed a young female near the table who denied that she had taken the bag. After reviewing a surveillance tape, the police officer the victim confirmed the young female had appeared to take the bag.
The officer questioned the suspect. At first she denied she had taken the handbag. After further questioning, however, the suspect admitted to taking the bag and bringing it to her boyfriend, who was working at a City Convenience store at Boston University. The mother convinced the suspect to retrieve the bag from her boyfriend and return it to the victim. Everything was intact when the bag was returned except for her cell phone battery. The suspect eventually took the cell phone battery from her pocket and returned it to the victim.
Cussing and fussing
At about 2:15 a.m. on Monday, two males, aged 23 and 24, were standing on the front porch of an Allston apartment at 7 Feneno Ter. smoking cigarettes when a third male approached them, asking, “Do you have a cigarette?” After the men responded that they didn’t, the male asked, “Do you have anything else?” After this, the two males quickly told the suspect to leave. He walked away saying “F—k you, you f—king f—ts.”
At the bottom of the porch’s steps, however, he immediately ran back up to the males and punched one in the eye, causing him to bleed. The two males began to wrestle the suspect to the ground and the victim, kicking and resisting this, struck the other victim in the jaw. When officers asked the suspect what had happened he replied “I asked them for a cigarette and started fighting with them. I’m totally wrong, I’m an a—hole.”
Earlier that night, two police officers ran into the suspect standing behind parked motor vehicles in a private lot. The officers reported that at that time he had appeared intoxicated and had been verbally abusive to them.
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