The following incident report is based on Brookline Police Department dispatch logs for Aug. 27 through 28. Look for weekday incident reports twice a week, and arrest logs each Tuesday on Brookline Patch. Suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

Breaking and Entering, Theft and Larceny

• Bike theft reported on Winchester Street, about 2:30 p.m. Monday. 
• Police took a report of a bicycle theft on Monday from the high school, after 2:30 p.m. 
• Two bikes were reportedly taken from 2 St. Paul Street some time between 11 a.m. on Sunday and 3:30 p.m. on Monday. The bikes were left unlocked on the rack, and the garage door was open.
• The IRS reported to a woman that she may be the victim of identity theft. Police responded to the Alton Place residence, and took a report. She said that she did not see any unauthorized transactions on her credit report. 
• Before 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Washington Street CVS reported a shoplifting incident. According to an employee, a suspect took a white plastic bag out of his pocket, and started loading it with razor blades, then left the store without paying. The suspect is described as a black man about 6' tall, wearing a baggy white t-shirt, shorts, and a black bike helmet.

Traffic

• A pedestrian was hit, and hosptial transport was required after a crash on School Street about 3:30 p.m.
• 7 a.m. Tuesday, a woman reported that her passenger-side wing mirror had been missing, the encasement was hanging by a wire. She believes someone pulled it off of her car. 

Animal Reports

• Police assisted with a bat call reported on Belmont Street, about 8:45 p.m. on Monday. For information on how to handle a bat in your home, see the Health Department's press release. 

Other

• A man was concerned that someone had entered his Franklin Street home through the skylight. When police arrived, at around 7:15 a.m. on Monday, they saw that he had a loaded gun. There were no signs of forced entry, and the alarm was still set--the homeowner reported that nothing was missing. When police queried the gun, the serial number did not match that of the gun they had. He was issued a fine for possession of a firearm past the 90 day grace period after the man's FID Card had expired.
• Some time between 8 p.m. and midnight on Tuesday, police got a call of malicious damage. The officer says he saw a parked car with a smashed rear window, and the owner said that sunglasses and a handbag were missing, and the some fraudulent charges were made on owner’s account.

Some details in this blotter were provided by the Brookline Police Blog. For questions about this blotter, email Grahame.Turner@Patch.com .