Wicked Local Brookline reports Brookline Police arrested a Brookline man on charges he tried to make off with eight bags of EZ Peel frozen shrimp from the Harvard Street Stop & Shop. Police were able to move in for the krill when the guy got stuck in traffic.

Boston Police report a spate of apartment break-ins through forced open kitchen or bathroom windows.

Sometime late Friday or early Saturday, somebody broke into an apartment in the 200 block of Park Drive by forcing open a bathroom window, stole laptops, a video camera and $500, then possibly left through another window in a common stairway, police say.

Sometime Saturday evening or early Sunday, three apartments in the same building on the 100 block of Peterborough Street were entered the same way. A total of six laptops were stolen, police say.

District D-4 offers security assessments and tips for "hardening" your apartment against break-ins. Call 617-343-4457.

The Globe reports on a collision late Sunday between an SUV and a backhoe removing snow on Belgrade Avenue near Walworth Street.

Channel 4 reports two cars in Charlestown were crushed by massive amounts of snow that slid off buildings over the weekend.