Police Briefs

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D-4 POLICE NEWS Mall rat On Thursday, Nov. 29, at approximately 3:49 a.m., officers responded to a radio call for a person with a knife inside the Prudential Center at 800 Boylston St. On arrival, police met with a security guard working inside Eately restaurant who said he approached the male suspect at about...
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D-4 POLICE NEWS Bad order On Tuesday, Nov. 20, at approximately 8:09 p.m., officers responded to a radio call for a robbery at 110 West Concord St. On arrival, police made contact with the caller who said he believed a robbery had just taken place outside of his residence at the aforementioned location. While...
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D-4 Police News have his (cheese) cake and eat it, too On Monday, Nov. 12, at about 4:23 p.m., police responded to the Apple store at 815 Boylston St. to investigate a person. On arrival, an employee told the responding officer that a male suspect entered the store and stated that it was going...
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D-4 POLICE NEWS Unwanted visitor On Monday, Nov. 5, at about 1:27 a.m., police responded to a radio call for an assault and battery in progress at CVS Pharmacy at 587 Boylston St. Upon arrival, officers stopped the male suspect after observing him exiting the store and shouting at employees. A victim told police...
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D-4 POLICE NEwS Potshot On Tuesday, Oct. 30, at about 12:05 p.m., police responded to a radio call for an armed robbery at 776 Tremont St. Officers couldn’t locate the victim upon arriving at the scene, but soon found him at 65 West Newton St. The victim, who was described as behaving “vague” and...
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d-4 POLICE NEWS Thick as a brick On Tuesday, Oct. 23, at around 1:10 a.m., police made an onsite arrest at Banyan Bar, located at 553 Tremont St., for an attempted commercial breaking and entering. Plainclothes officers, who were on directed patrol in the area due to a string of recent break-ins, set up...
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Unwanted guest On Saturday, Oct. 20, at around 5:53 a.m., officers responded to a radio call for a verbal dispute at 130 Dartmouth St. On arrival, police spoke to Longwood security officers who said the female suspect had a disagreement with a friend who lives there. The suspect’s friend, who was uncooperative and refused...
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D-4 POLICE NEWS Bad medicine On Tuesday, Oct. 9, at about 9:10 a.m., police responded to a radio call for a breaking and entering in progress at 922 Beacon St. On arrival, the officers located the caller, who said she thought someone was in her apartment, even though she didn’t see or hear anything....
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D-4 POLICE NEWS No shirt, no dice On Monday, Oct. 1, at around 11:35 a.m., police responded to a radio call to investigate a person in the rear of 2 Claremont Park. While en route to the call, officers were notified by Operations that a man with no shirt on was on the ground,...
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