Student, elderly man fend off would-be robbers

Boston Police report that a student got back to his 63 Shannon St. abode around 10:30 yesterday morning to find two out-of-breath dudes - one of whom he knows - trying to give him a line of BS about why his front door was open:

The victim stated that he confronted the two suspects and they reported that they had come by to talk to him but when they arrived they observed two black males who fled in a Jeep with the victim's property. The victim reported that he then asked the two suspects to open the trunk of the car and they reluctantly opened it. The victim then told officers that once the suspects opened their trunk, he observed a number of his items in the trunk of their car. The victim then called officers and gave them the description of two black males that the suspects had given him so as not to alert then that he was on to their ruse.

Jhonathan Martins, 19, and Nathan Silva-Rosa, 19, both of Everett, were then taken away by police for some schooling in the criminal justice system.

Meanwhile, over at 117 Park Dr. in the Fenway, police say, a couple of Dorchester teens tried robbing an elderly man of his bicycle as he rested on a bench. Instead, the guy got up, grabbed one of the thuglets and wrestled his bike back, police say. The pair then took off on the other thuglet's bike - and got to Clemente Park before officers caught up with them, police say.

Innocent, etc.