Crime & Safety

Woman Throws Tantrum, Topples Dunkin' Coolatta Machine: Boston Police

Boston police are looking for a woman who they say became 'belligerent' towards a Dunkin' employee after being denied a specialty request.

DORCHESTER, MA — Boston police are asking for the public's help in identifying a woman wanted in connection to a Dunkin' incident in Dorchester earlier this week.

Boston police say the woman got upset while at the Dunkin's on Blue Hill Avenue on Monday around 6:45 p.m. when she was told the multicolored Coolatta beverage she ordered was not offered on the menu

The employee working the drive-thru window told police she was confronted by the woman who then became hostile. The employee says she even tried to give the woman one of the Coolattas listed on the menu for free, but she wouldn't have it.

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Police say the woman became belligerent - yelling profanities at staff members through the drive-thru before pulling around to the front of the store and running inside.

This is when officers say the woman continued to cause a disturbance with the staff, pushing the Coolatta machine from behind the front counter, causing it to fall to the floor, nearly hitting the employee.

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The woman then fled from the scene in a gray SUV. Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at 617-343-4275.

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