Boston man is facing charges for breaking into a brewery just weeks after release from prison for similar offenses
BOSTON, July 15, 2025 – A Boston man is facing charges for smashing his way into a Fenway brewery less than three weeks after being released from a five-year prison sentence for a spate of similar break-ins in 2019 and 2020, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced.
MICHAEL DIAS, 46, of Boston was charged in Roxbury BMC Friday with breaking and entering during nighttime, malicious destruction of property over $1,200, larceny from a building, and common and notorious thief.
Judge Dana Pierce released Dias on personal recognizance and ordered him to stay away from the location of the offense. Dias is due back in court on September 25 for a probable cause hearing and appointment of counsel.
At around 3:40 a.m. on July 3, Boston police responded to a breaking and entering call at Trillium Brewery at 401 Park Drive. Officers spoke with a security guard who reported making his rounds around 3 a.m. and finding the front door to Trillium’s outside bar and gift shop smashed. Officers observed the front door to be shattered and a large rock on the floor of the bar.
Detectives observed apparent drops of blood on the bar top, cash register, and floor and sent samples to the crime lab for analysis.
Video surveillance from the nearby Timeout Market shows two men walking around the exterior of the brewery. The first man, later identified as Dias, suddenly stops and throws a rock at the front door, shattering it. Dias is seen kicking a hole in the door then throwing the rock again before kicking the glass more and entering the bar. The second man is seen walking away from the area.
Once inside, Dias takes the cash register off the counter and repeatedly smashes it on the ground. Dias is seen leaning over the bar top in the area where the blood droplets were found before leaving the bar through the smashed door.
Detectives sought an arrest warrant for Dias based on the surveillance footage, forensic evidence recovered from the scene and the pattern of break-ins committed by Dias in 2019 and 2020.
In those incidents, Dias broke the front door of commercial properties with a rock then smashed the registers for cash before fleeing. Dias pleaded guilty in September 2020 and received a seven-year sentence in which he served five years and was released from custody on June 17.
“Incarceration is a punishment we seek only when the facts and circumstances support it and public safety demands it. It is always our hope that incarcerated individuals keep their lives moving forward when they re-enter society. The facts here indicate that this person reverted, very quickly, to the behavior that sent him to prison in the first place,” Hayden said.
All charged individuals are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office serves the communities of Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop. The office handles more than 20,000 cases a year. More than 160 attorneys in the office practice in nine district and municipal courts, Suffolk Superior Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court, and the Boston Juvenile Courts. The office employs some 300 people and offers a wide range of services and programs for anyone encountering the criminal justice system. We are committed to educating the public about the services we provide while focusing on crime prevention to keep the residents of Suffolk County safe.
James Borghesani, Chief of Communications