Police Log: Fired Employee Threatens to Torch Pizza Place

The following incident report is based on Brookline Police Department dispatch logs for Monday, Jan. 10, through Thursday, Jan. 13. Look for weekend incident reports each Monday and arrest logs each Tuesday on Brookline Patch.

• A manager at Ozzie’s Pizza on Harvard Street called police on Jan. 13 to report that a recently fired employee had threatened to burn the restaurant down.
• A Hedge Road resident told police he was having a disagreement with a utility company employee who had urinated in front of his house on Jan. 13.

• A wildlife management agency was called in on Jan. 11 after a group of kids found an injured owl near High and Chestnut streets.
• A woman and her dog were reported bitten by a pit bull running loose in St. Mark’s Park on Jan. 12. The woman told police the pitbull belonged to an elderly couple living at the St. Mark’s condos.

• A package was reportedly stolen from 100 Centre Street sometime between Oct. 1 and Dec. 1 of 2010.
• Someone call police on Jan. 10 to say that he had located a cell phone stolen from the high school earlier in the day using the phone’s tracking system. Police reported that the phone appeared to be moving all over Boston and suggested the victim contact Brookline detectives in the phone appeared to return to town.
• Someone broke into a Jeep on Tappan Street sometime on Jan. 9 or 10 and damaged the plastic around the steering column in an apparent attempt to steal the car. The thief also made off with a pair of sunglasses in the car. Lost
• Someone reported losing a cell phone worth $300 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Jan. 11.

• A Lancaster Terrace resident told police a man knocked on her apartment door on Jan. 12 and tried to convince her to go somewhere in his car. The woman described the stranger as a white man in his mid 30s and said he was “fairly attractive” though he was missing a bottom tooth.
• Police received a reported about a tree on fire on Beverly Road on Jan. 12.
• An employee at a Route 9 dealership told police he believed a customer was try to sell him a stolen vehicle on Jan. 11.