Man Threatened To Shoot, Steal Marijuana From Man: Brookline PD

BROOKLINE, MA — After a man on a bike threatened to shoot another man if he didn't give him his weed, police tracked him down and after a short chase arrested him in Boston, they said.

Police arrested Adrian Thomas, 28, of Boston and charged him with attempt to commit a crime, (armed robbery) and resisting arrest on Tuesday night just after 11 p.m.

Earlier that night a man was walking down Harvard Street after buying marijuana from New England Treatment Access, which closes at 10 p.m., when he said someone came up behind him on a squeaky bike. He told police he turned around and the man riding the bike asked to bum a cigarette.

When he replied he didn't smoke, the man asked him if he had any weed. The man didn't give him what he had just bought, instead, the reporting person then crossed the street and kept walking, and the man on the bike stayed on the other side, crossed again at Harvard and walked up Davis Avenue to avoid the man, when he heard the squeaky wheel again, according to police.

The man told police he was nervous the man was following him, so he took out his cell phone to call police just in case. When he turned around. the man on the bike was there and with one hand in his pocket clenched as if he were holding a gun told him "give me the weed or I will shoot you."

The man told police he didn't see an actual gun, but it looked like he was holding one.

As soon as the man on the bike said this, he stepped into the street, he told police, because he saw a woman on the other side of the road walking her dog. He thought perhaps seeing her might deter the man on the bike from attacking him. It worked, he said.

The man on the bike was distracted long enough so that he could create some distance and call police. The man on the bike then rolled past him and asked him if he was scared.

He was able to describe the man to police who then found someone matching that description on a bike heading from Brookline Avenue down Washington Street. When police approached him near Brigham Circle just over the Brookline line and ordered him to get off the bike, he didn't. After riding some more the man eventually jumped off the bike and started running, according to police, causing an officer to give chase down Huntington Avenue where they eventually arrested him.

The report did not indicate a gun was found.

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