Wicked Local Roslindale reports a delivery person for Checkmate Cafe was robbed around 10 p.m. on Dec. 1 at what turned out to be a vacant house at 609 South St. The gunman got away with several hundred dollars in cash, a cell phone, two Philly cheese-steak subs and an order of fries.

Also click on the link to read about a knifepoint holdup on Washington Street by Averton Street and about the eight assault-and-battery reports across West Roxbury and Roslindale on Thanksgiving (three involved knives, no word if they were carving knives).

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