Blotter: Brookline Police Make Five Arrests

BROOKLINE, MA — Police in Brookline this week made five arrests related to shoplifting charges and outstanding warrants.

The first two arrests — those of Thomas McSorely, 34, and Connor Evans, 29 — were made Feb. 24, just before 3 p.m.

According to a statement from police, officers were dispatched to the Bank of America ATM for two men "laying around" inside the vestibule.

When officers arrived, they found McSorely and Evans lying on the ground holding cans of compressed air, police said.

According to the statement, both men admitted to having huffing addictions but said they would leave the area of the ATM and return to the shelter they were staying at.

Half an hour later, police were called to Economy Hardware after someone reported seeing two men taking up to nine cans of computer duster cleaner. Police also said the men tried to use a gold American Express card to buy a can of computer duster cleaner at the store, but it was declined.

Police said officers went to the scene and investigated, after which they found nine cans of the compressed air were missing from store shelves. Those officers later found Evans and McSorley at the St. Mary's MBTA train stop.

Police said they found two half-empty cans of Master Mechanic and the gold American Express card.

Police confiscated the card and cans of air and arrested the men, who were each charged with shoplifting for the theft of nine cans fo air duster. Both Evans and McSorely were arrested and booked into jail.

Just before noon on Feb. 24, a man and a woman were arrested on shoplifting charges after several hygiene products and laundry detergent were stolen from the CVS at 1322 Beacon Street.

According to a statement from police, an officer met with the CVS store manager at 10:23 a.m. regarding a white woman and black male who the manager said had stolen items from the store.

Police said officers on scene got an itemized receipt for the stolen items and set out to find the suspects.

Police stopped Anthony Moore, 52, and Leslie Wheeler, of an undisclosed age, as they were walking toward Coolidge Corner. Police said Moore and Wheeler were adamant they had not been to a CVS and had paid for the items in their possession, but an officer noticed items matching the ones stolen from CVS in Wheeler and Moore's personal bags.

Officers investigated whether Moore and Wheeler had outstanding warrants and found Moore was the subject of a default warrant out of Lowell District Court for uttering a false check, forgery, attempt to commit a crime and intimidating a witness, police said.

Moore and Wheeler were both arrested for shoplifting, marking Wheeler's third subsequent offense, police said.

According to the statement, all $206.72 worth of merchandise was found at the scene. Both suspects were arrested and jailed.

A 40-year-old woman as arrested at 10:20 a.m. at 667 Main Street in Woburn for outstanding warrants.

In a statement, police said the woman, Alicia Walker, had been discharged from an undisclosed medical facility when a nurse called police to report the woman had been released.

Police arrested the woman for six outstanding warrants.

Of those warrants, five were out of Lowell District Court. Police said they include: larceny of drugs, trespassing and shoplifting by asportation; receiving a stolen motor vehicle, disturbing the peace and trespassing; threats to commit a crime; trespassing; and entering a dwelling for a felony under false pretenses.

Walker also had an outstanding warrant out of Lawrence District Court for possession of a Class A drug and conspiracy to violate drug laws.

Walker was arrested without incident, jailed and escorted to Brookline District Court.