Crime & Safety

Newton Police Log: Home Broken Into, Man Caught Stealing Purse at Mall

The following information was supplied by the Newton Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

July 23:

A car was stolen out of a driveway on Winthrop Avenue. It was stolen between 4:40 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Graffiti was found on the Cabot Field House.

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Someone broke into a home on Grove Street.

 

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June 24:

A woman eating at the Bloomingdales at Chestnut Hill Mall put her purse down and then heard someone yelling at her that her purse was missing. Officer at the mall chased a man who had taken the purse. The suspect ran out of the mall and into the woods along Hammond Parkway. An officer caught up with the man and grabbed a paper bag with the purse inside. The suspect continued to run. Newton and Brookline police searched the area and a witness said she had seen a man fitting the description out of breath and sweating profusely. Police located him and placed him under arrest. Robert C. Byrd, 50, of Howard Street in Cambridge, was arrested for larceny from a person.

A Fair Oaks Avenue resident reported his trash barrel had been stolen.

A Lothrop Street resident told police that several pickets were missing from his fence, and he believed it happened during a carnival held on Hawthorne Street.

The passenger side rear window was smashed and the paneling from the door was missing from a car on Woodside Road. Nothing appeared to be missing, and it appears to be a case of vandalism.

Police arrested Christopher J. McDonald, 34, of 32 Dermody Road in Waltham, for violating a restraining order.

A woman running at about 6 p.m. on the carriage way on Temple Street when a man in a white four-door sedan began following her at the same speed and stared at her. She became nervous, so she reversed directions onto Commonwealth Avenue. The man, who had short balding hair, turned around too, then stopped and continued to stare.

 

July 25:

A woman placed her black wallet in her carriage while shopping at Trader Joe’s. When she got to the register she noticed it was gone. She discovered that her credit cards had been used in Boston.

Someone smashed a rear sliding glass door and stole numerous items from a home on Beacon Street. An officer responded to a burglar alarm and the suspect fled the area.

Police arrested a 30-year-old man from New Bedford on a warrant for breaking and entering and domestic assault and battery.


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