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Police: Roxbury Women Charged with Stealing 18 Packs of Toothpaste

The following information was supplied by the Brookline Police Department. Charges listed do not indicate convictions.

Two Roxbury women were arrested and charged with stealing lots of toothpaste from CVS.

Brookline Police responded to a report of shoplifters at the CVS at 1322 Beacon Street at about 10 p.m. on May 26. The suspects were described as two females.

Responding officers located two women who matched the description outside of the Walgreens across the street from the CVS. One of the suspects dropped a plastic shopping bag containing 18 packages of toothpaste.

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Inside the store, officers talked to the witness, who said that the store had surveillance footage of the women walking into the store without the plastic bad, and walking out with the bag in hand. The cost of the recovered merchandise was totaled at $86.51.

Brookline Police arrested Fredericka Golston, 57, of 58 Annunciation Road, Roxbury, and Keishaundra Dickerson, 36, of 49 Winthrop Street, Roxbury and charged them with shoplifting. 

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