Police chase Boston pair, charge them with stealing from truck
By ELAINE ALLEGRINI
GateHouse News Service
ABINGTON - They allegedly had a car full of pricey Italian leather shoes, but really could have used running sneakers.
Boston residents Gary Patterson and Joseph Fitzsimmons, both 18, were apprehended in Weymouth early Sunday after they broke into a trailer at Land Air Express on Bedford Street and got away with 43 pairs of men’s Cole Haan shoes, police said.
The total value was $6,000 for the shoes, which retail from $300 to more than $1,000 a pair. But, police Lt. Kevin Smith said, the shoes would have brought far less on the black market.
‘‘They’d sell the shoes for $30 or something,’’ said Smith.
He said off-duty Abington auxiliary police officer Stephen O’Connor saw suspicious activity at the tractor-trailer terminal. The trucks were parked against the building, but the two suspects were able to squeeze into the small space. One grabbed the shoes from the trailer and passed them to the other, Smith said.
When O’Connor approached, the suspects got into the Pontiac they were loading with shoes and fled north on Route 18 as Abington police responded and Weymouth police joined in the pursuit, Smith said.
They nabbed the pair after they ditched their car at a bank parking lot. A Weymouth police cruiser crashed in that area, he said.
Patterson, of 218 W. 8th St., South Boston, and Fitzsimmons, of 62 Stone Hill Road, Hyde Park, were charged by Abington police with breaking and entering into a truck to commit a felony, larceny from a truck, larceny over $250 and possession of burglary tools, Smith said.
Weymouth police are expected to bring driving charges against Patterson.
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