Brookline

Brookline Police report this guy keeps shoplifting Oil of Olay products from the CVS at 900 Commonwealth Ave.

He grabbed $1,000 worth of Oil of Olay stuff on Monday - four days after he was spotted leaving the store with even more Oil of Olay products.

If he looks familiar, give a holler to Brookline Police at 617-730-2244 ext. 2716.

Susan B. asks:

I am craving good, quality Chinese food and I have no idea where to go in Boston/Allston/Brookline. Any suggestions?

Brookline Police report a man making a deposit shortly after midnight this morning at a Beacon Street bank was severely beaten by two men who took off with his bag of money and fled. Police did not specify which bank.

In a separate incident around 4:20 a.m., three guys on Freemans Street got pissed the two escorts who showed up were not the ones they'd selected and so refused to have anything to do with them. The escorts, however, attacked the men and took their money and fled. Police called to the scene found the two women in a car with a male driver; all three were were arrested.

The T's now busing from Fenway and St. Mary's inbound on the D and C lines due to signal problems near Kenmore.

The buses were of little help to Mike, who reports spending 50 minutes studying a Green Line tunnel. As Jeff Clark sat on a stuck train, he wondered if somebody could send him some breakfast.

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a woman Sunday afternoon on charges she escalated an argument on a C trolley by smacking one opponent in the back of the head with her umbrella and then smacking another by opening the umbrella up in her face.

Isoline Peart-Smith, 21, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest following the 2:30 p.m. incident on an outbound C trolley by St. Mary Street, according to a police report.

According to the report, Peart-Smith hit the one of the women in the back of the head twice with her multi-colored umbrella and then turned her attention to the other woman with whom she was arguing "by hitting the button on the handle and expanding it."

The report adds "the umbrella was secured and submitted into evidence," but does not say what the argument was about.

Innocent, etc.

Jeff Egnaczyk begs of his hometown:

Brookline, can you chill OUT with the scented mulch. Why must a wood chip be scented?

Trish Fontanilla wonders if maybe Jeff is just getting his nostrils in a bunch over flowers, but Haley Rose agrees with Egnaczyk:

Seriously, my nose hurts.

The Globe reports an Allston man was arrested yesterday on charges he held up a Brookline bank barely a half mile from his Allston apartment.

Following the holdup at the Sovereign Bank branch at 487 Harvard St., authorities IDed the suspect as the same big-eared man wanted for holding up a Bank of America branch at 1237 Comm. Ave. in Allston twice over the past month.

He allegedly tried a third time on Tuesday but was refused money by a teller, the FBI said.

The Globe reports he was was arrested at his apartment at 1120 Comm. Ave. in Allston.

Brookline and Boston Police are looking for a man who held up the Sovereign Bank branch at 487 Harvard St., just over the Allston line, around 2 p.m. today. Police say the description of the man - a clean-shaven white guy with bad teeth - matches that of the man wanted for two successful robberies and a failed attempt at a Bank of America branch on Comm. Ave. near Harvard Ave. in Allston.

SuspectBrookline Police report they will arrest Tyler Grace, of no known address, just as soon as he's arraigned in Maine on similar indecent-assault charges.

Police say Grace, 29, fondled himself in the main Public Library of Brookline branch on Washington Street on Saturday, then finished his act on a woman sitting next to him.

Police say Grace's arraignment in Penobscot County is scheduled for Friday, after which he will have to answer to Brookline charges of open and gross lewdness, indecent assault and battery and assault and batttery with a dangerous weapon.

Innocent, etc.

Brookline Police are looking for a man who did more than just fondle himself in front of a female patron at the Public Library of Brookline on Washington Street Saturday afternoon.

According to police:

He sat next to a young woman at a table set up his lap top computer and masturbated, he then stood up and ejaculated on the young woman. She screamed and suspect fled the library.

If the guy looks familiar, contact Brookline Police at 617-730-2244.

Maybe there's a good reason an MBTA supervisor was blocking a handicap space and the sidewalk while parked on grass along Beacon Street today, but Todd Kirrane, who took the picture, says the driver just seemed to have stopped to do some shopping.

Robert Sonia, involved with a melee with off-duty cops and a stripper last spring, has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers and the town of Brookline, alleging they deprived him of his rights by beating him up.

Sonia, a Lynn resident who was working as a driver for an adult-entertainment company, drove a stripper to a Beacon Street apartment for a bachelor party in March, 2010. When the two got to the address, some sort of fight broke out - Sonia charges cops jumped him, beat him and then wouldn't let an ambulance take him to the hospital.

In June, charges against everybody involved in the fight were dropped. At the time, Sonia's attorney said Sonia felt vindicated and just wanted to put the incident behind him.

In his lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Boston, however, Sonia is asking for unspecified damages for the alleged violation of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

• Complete complaint

Paul Keleher watched the Boston Marathon at mile 16, where he photographed a group of front-running women, including eventually winner Caroline Kilel (at right).

Meanwhile, NECN reports a man fell four floors off a roof at 1835 Beacon St. in Brookline while watching the race. NECN says a group of people had been drinking there since 8 a.m.

Copyright Paul Keleher. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Nick Gillham photographed some of the cars at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum on Saturday, including this Ferrari 599 GTO.

Copyright Nick Gillahm. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Die, bug, die! Photo by Jenn Forman Orth.The US Department of Agriculture says it wants to inject trees up to a half-mile away from where Asian Longhorned Beetles were found last year with imidacloprid, a pesticide that kills not only beetles but bees.

USDA and state and city officials plan a public meeting on the beetles - which were found in six trees on hospital grounds - on April 28, at 7 p.m. at the Faulkner Hospital Auditorium. The current quarantine zone - in which any woody material has to be ground up - extends into Roslindale and Brookline.

Unless you really are advertising a room in Brookline Vile, in which case, ew, why?

Via Erica Jensen.

Parking is a delicate subject, one that our elected officials like to ignore because changes usually result in anger, as few people are rational when it comes to discussing meters. Last year, Brookline commissioned a parking study and are actually going through with the suggestions. New hours, new prices and new meters come into effect on April 1st, 2011.

The problem:
Red Sox fans.

Under the current system, a red sox fan, driving to the stadium has a choice. Pay $30 to stick their car in a lot right by the stadium, and deal with the traffic to arrive and leave.... or pay $1.50 to park in Brookline and not deal with traffic.

The choice is obvious.

Fans arrive at 4pm, insert two hours worth of money in the meter ($1.50) and are free to stay as long as they want (well, not overnight).

Meanwhile, those wanting the spaces to hit the restaurants or supermarkets are out of luck. Those cars wont be moving for four or five hours.

Remember, the parking meter was invented to create turnover. 2 hour limits mean the spaces are for customers and not space-hogs.

The solution:

Sara watched the burning tracks in Coolidge Corner shortly before 7 p.m. today.

Channel 4 reports one trolley drove right over the fire - on purpose.

Police say the victim of the stomping also had to have his broken jaw wired together following the Friday incident on Kent Square, Wicked Local Brookline reports.

The MBTA is running shuttle buses between Cleveland Circle and Coolidge Corner due to a "power problem" at Cleveland Circle.

Kevin Aries happened to be right there when the problem occurred, around 7:30 p.m.:

May have just witnessed a small explosion on the live wires above the tracks at Cleveland Circle. Looks like a piece of the wire fell down onto the tracks.

Residents from Brighton, Brookline and Newton are trying to organize a task force to watch over a proposed hotel and retail development that would demolish not only the vacant Cleveland Circle Cinema but the Applebee's next door, on land split by the Boston/Brookline line just down the street from Newton.

The first meeting of the Cleveland Circle Task Force is Tuesday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in the basement of Roggie's, 356 Chestnut Hill Ave.

Wicked Local Brookline reports a Dorchester woman who objected to her friend being corrected during a discussion of icing in a Beacon Street store allegedly threatened to kill the clerk before knocking over a couple of displays in a huff.

"Fondue, fondant, who gives a f---."

Somebody's going around shooting squirrels with a BB gun, Brookline Patch reports.

That would be the lichens named that, not Redcoats. Jef Taylor reports the closest he's spotted them to Boston City Hall is in Brookline - although he posts a photo of some of them from the roof of a building at the Franklin Park Zoo (which, while in Boston, is further away from City Hall).

Brookline and Boston firefighters are at 5 Wellington Terrace, off Cypress and Walnut streets, this morning.