Boston Police report that when officers saw a couple of guys moving a table saw from one van to another at 13 Kimball St. in Dorchester shortly before 2 this morning, they stopped to ask what they were doing. One volunteered the owner of the first van was a friend of his and said he could borrow the saw.
Officers asked for the friend's phone number; the guy said he couldn't remember it. Unfortunately for him and his alleged accomplice, the van was a commercial vehicle and had the owner's number painted on the side. Which the officers then called:
While speaking to the owner, the owner of the van stated that nobody had permission to be in his van and he would never loan out his tools. A search of the suspect's van enabled officers to locate and recover additional tools stolen from the victim's van.
Darren Duffy, 33, of Dorchester and Thomas Washington, 42, of Dorchester, were then arrested on charges of larceny over $250 and breaking and entering a motor vehicle.
Innocent, etc.
