An eagle-eyed witness helped police bust a suspected Beacon Hill smash-and-grab suspect late final night time who was caught with a brick in his hand.
Police reviews state how first “a caller inside” a Charles Street tackle noticed a suspect “kick the window of the business across the street” and take off operating. Police dispatched to the realm rapidly came across a theft in progress.
“The alarm company (was) reporting … a person inside by the cash registers” at a jewellery retailer on the road, police report.
More officers had been referred to as in for back-up the place they reported discovering a brick on the road on the scene of the primary break-in then the identical brick-and-broken-glass destruction on the Tibet Emporium on Charles Street.
Police famous the realm has been hit by thieves final summer time they usually intensified their search.
The report states $1,500 in money, iPads, $700 in payments, and presumably extra lacking. They then stored on looking out recognizing a Charles Street door “slightly cracked open with light appearing” at round 11:36 p.m.
“While approaching the door, officers heard a ‘thump’ sound inside” and that’s when police report they drew their weapons with one officer utilizing his foot to push open a door recognizing a “white male suspect, wearing a black jacket, blue jeans, and green sneakers.”
He additionally had a telltale brick in his hand.
The suspect dropped the brick and was rapidly handcuffed, the report ends. The suspect was recognized as James Schaff, who will probably be arraigned someday immediately.
At reserving, police added, Schaff had “several jewelry items which were located in his black jacket.”
He was charged with breaking and getting into within the night time, destruction of property, and being a standard thief.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”