Crime & Safety

OMG PD!

Unusual and odd police reports from the South Shore and Cape Cod.

If you think nothing interesting ever happens in coastal Massachusetts, think again. Patch is highlighting some of the more unusual crime news from the South Shore and Cape Cod in our new feature, OMG PD.

Man accused of stealing lobsters 

When a Rosindale man had to chose  after being confronted by store security at Roche Bros. in West Roxbury, he dropped the lobsters and ran off with the razors. Even if the lobsters were banded, how did the shoplifter get them out of the tank?

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Man does not make it to Christmas dinner

Christmas dinner was interrupted for a man who was arrested at Burger King in Hyannis after falling asleep while waiting in line for food. The man also had a young child with him and was charged with OUI and child endangerment.

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 Christmas Party goes awry

After a disagreement between two men at a party in Centerville on Christmas,  the men left. Yet the evening did not end peacefully. There was still time for a car chase and a machete attack.

Help yourself

After a man allegedly stole a woman’s wallet at the cash register at Foot Locker in the South Shore Plaza, he used the same woman’s credit card to buy sneakers and a sweatshirt. While the woman confronted the man, he returned the wallet, but not her credit card.

Man arrested for considering bank robbery

Don’t even thing about robbing a bank was the lesson a Hull man learned this Wednesday after he allegedly considered robbing a bank in Hingham and a bank in Braintree.

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