Police Log: Coyotes Call and Squirrels Fall

The following incident report is based on dispatch logs for Monday, Feb. 14, through Thursday, Feb. 17. Look for weekend incident reports each Monday and arrest logs each Tuesday on Brookline Patch.

• A man on Resevoir Road has been targeting squirrels with a BB gun. A concerned neighbor told police on Feb. 14 that she found several dead and injured squirrels around her home.

• Several residents reported coyote sightings throught the week. Some of the reports were from neighborhoods near high-traffic areas such as Coolidge Corner.

• A Honda Civic was taken from the apartment complex at Hammond Pond Park Saturday night, but the callers told police on Feb. 14 that they know who stole it.
• A woman reported that her money orders were being cashed by somebody else at the Brookline Bank on Feb. 16.
• A man from out of town said two credit cards were stolen while he was on Clyde Street last Friday. He reported to police on Feb. 16.
• Several items were taken from the truck of a National Grid Worker. He reported the missing items to police on Feb. 17.
• Clothing worth $15,000 was supposedly delivered to Healthworks in Chestnut Hill via UPS on Feb. 17, but it was never received. The employee who informed police believes it was stolen.

• A gray hatchback vehicle sideswiped another car on Sewall Avenue near the post office around 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 14. The license plate number was recorded.
• A woman was hit in her car by a green Subaru Outback around 4:45 p.m. on Feb. 16. She did not see who hit her.

• A basement window was found kicked in on Kent Street around 7:15 p.m. on Feb. 15. The homeowner did not know if anything was stolen.
• Two men attempted to break into a Fairbanks Street apartment around 4 p.m. on Feb. 16. They tried to enter by breaking the door open with a screwdriver.
• A tenant told police on Feb. 16 that somebody may have entered his Fairbanks Street apartment through a window. He could not tell if anything was missing.
• A woman retured to her Parkway Road home around 8:45 p.m. on Feb. 17 to find her door open with a bent lock.

• A man threatened another man on Longwood Avenue around 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 15 . He threw a bottle at the other man's car before driving away.
• Six credit cards were opened under a Brookline resident's name. When he told police of the identity theft on Feb. 16, he noted that only one of them was used to make purchases.