Man Charged with Breaking and Entering on Blake Road

Brookline police officers responded to a report of a breaking and entering on Blake Road at 8:30 p.m. on April 4. The caller did not see the suspect, but reportedly heard breaking glass.

At 8:32 p.m., an officer observed a young man between the ages of 18 and 20 in a brown coat with a backwards baseball hat walking down Stanton Street, which is close to Blake Road.  When the officer asked where he was coming from, the man replied “Chinatown.”

At this point, the suspect took off running eastbound on Stanton Road. The suspect took a right onto Somerset Road and headed towards Washington Street before the officer lost sight of him. The officer sent out a description of the suspect and then caught sight of him again. The officer chased the suspect and lost him in a backyard somewhere between Stanton Street and Gorham Avenue.

Officers set up a perimeter and continued to search for the suspect.

The homeowners spoke to the police who said that she and her husband left the house at about 5:15 p.m. and took separate cars, but returned home at the same time, about 8:25 p.m.. The woman said that she went upstairs first from the basement to the first floor while her husband unloaded some stuff from the car into the garage.

When she reached the front hallway, she noticed that the dining room window was open and observed the blinds swaying in the wind. She then heard a sound from upstairs that sounded like breaking glass. She then ran down to the basement to tell her husband what she had heard. They called the police.

On searching the house, officers found a broken window leading to the dinning room, which is located near the patio on the left side of the house. One pane glass was broken on that window. The lower window was lifted up. There was broken glass both on the patio and in the dining room. Below the dining room window, there is a storm window, where officers found a brick on the floor.

Officers also observed a broken window directly above the dining room on the second floor. Officers determined that the suspect entered the house through the dining room window. Police determined that the suspect used a brick to break one pane of glass then they reached inside to unlock the window and open it.

Officers found blood on the patio as well as on the white fence gate leading to the patio.

Officers found a brown jewelry box near the driveway, which was broken in half with an empty smaller jewelry box on the concrete next to it.

At 9:30 p.m., an officer observed the suspect exit an alleyway at the rear of 397 Washington Street. The officer observed the suspect run across the intersection of Washington Street and Cypress Street and get into the passenger seat of a black BMW Sedan. The vehicle pulled in front of 10 Cypress Street. The officer observed that the passenger had blood on his hands.

When the officer caught up with the suspect, the officer described the suspect as sweating, bleeding from the hand, missing a shoe and his baseball hat. The officer tried to speak with the suspect but due to a language barrier, the officer was unable to get a statement.

The officer spoke to the driver, who said that the suspect had contacted him, telling him that he had been in a fight, lost one of his sneakers and didn’t have any money to get back to Chinatown.

Officers arrested Liwei Mei, 20, of 11 Hudson Street, Boston an charged him with breaking and entering in the night with intent to commit a felony, malicious destruction of property and resisting arrest.

Officers determined that Liwei is a Chinese citizen and a Brookline Police Consular Notification Form was filled out and faxed to the Chinese Embassy.  A criminal court complaint form was completed and submitted to the Brookline District Court.