Thursday, Sept. 11
12:28 p.m. An officer investigated a report that a tractor-trailer had taken down a pole on State Street.
4:35 p.m. Officers spoke to a Jersey Street resident who had the purchase of an Apple MacBook Air, which was picked up at a Dorchester Best Buy, charged in June to a debit card that she had cancelled the same day the fraudulent order was placed. She explained that she had been unsuccessful in obtaining a refund from the bank. The officers forwarded the information to detectives for follow-up.
11:55 p.m. Officers investigated the report of suspicious activity on Front Street that proved to be unfounded.
Friday, Sept. 12
9:12 a.m. An officer was dispatched to the intersection of Ratlin and Ridge roads to investigate the report of a crane blocking the roadway. The officer arrived to find the crane off the side of Ridge Road, parked in the side driveway of a home on West Shore
Drive, from which a tree company was taking trees down. The officer determined that the roadway was open, with ample room for vehicles to get by. The owner of the company was advised that it would be in his best interest to hire a police detail to ensure safety. The owner said he understood but felt it unnecessary in this case because it was a dead-end street. He said he and his crew would ensure the roadway and area remained safe.
11:02 a.m. Officers investigated a disturbance on West Shore Drive.
11:03 a.m. An Oak Street resident reported receiving annoying phone calls.
4:36 p.m. Officers investigated the report of a disturbance on Beacon and Green streets.
7:32 p.m. A request for a water rescue was received from a boat off of Stramski Way.
11:46 p.m. A 34-year-old Arizona man was taken into protective custody on Atlantic and Ocean avenues.
Saturday, Sept. 13
8:09 a.m. Officers responded to the scene of a vehicle crash reported on Pleasant Street.
7:05 p.m. Officers investigated a 911 hang-up call from Barnard Hawkes Court. The resident explained that her husband had been causing a scene during dinner, and she had unsuccessfully tried to get him to leave, though he had left by the time officers arrived. The woman said she was not sure where he would have gone. She was advised to call the police again if he returned.
Sunday, Sept. 14
12:34 a.m. Officers restored the peace after a general complaint on Willow Road.
3:20 p.m. An officer responded to the scene of a minor vehicle crash on Atlantic Avenue and Chestnut Street.
Monday, Sept. 15
2:36 p.m. An officer investigated a report of vandalism on Intrepid Circle. An officer spoke with a Glover Property Management employee who reported that the front door to one of the units was coming off the hinges and not closing properly. The employee told the officer that the damage had been discovered around 8 a.m., after not having been damaged when he left work the previous Friday afternoon. The employee reported that they believed that someone might be damaging the doors intentionally because similar damage had taken place to the rear entry door the weekend before. The officer took pictures of the damage to both doors.
3:48 p.m. An officer was dispatched to Pleasant Street to take a report from a resident about ongoing harassment from a neighbor. The resident brought the officer to the backyard and showed him a small rock that she believed the neighbor had thrown over into her yard. The resident then spoke to her father on the phone and learned that he had put the rock in the yard to mark off dog feces.
3:56 p.m. An officer went to Tedesco Street to speak with a resident who had been negotiating the purchase of a woodbeam prefab garage for over $32,000, only to determine that he had been the victim of what was likely a professional phishing scam. The resident had already been in contact with the financial institutions involved in the transaction as well as the proprietors of a website involved in the transaction, and the resident believed he may have acted in time to stop the transfer of funds.
3:56 p.m. An officer went to Green Street to take a report from a resident who believed his car keys may have been stolen. The resident explained that he had been cleaning out his vehicle in his driveway and had the keys sitting on the front porch. At one point, he had gone inside the house for a few minutes and returned to find the keys missing. He also saw what he thought might be a person going through the bushes and out to Green Street. The man said that he was aware that he had “enemies” but later amended that to say there were people who just “don’t like him.” The man said that his home has security cameras but that they were shut off. While the officer and the man were speaking, his father was mowing the lawn nearby but showed no interest in wanting to stop mowing the lawn or speaking with the officer. The officer tried to ask him if he had seen anyone take his son’s keys, and his only reply was that he “hadn’t looked inside for the keys yet.” The officer advised the son to park the car in the garage, if possible, and to turn the cameras back on.
5:26 p.m. An officer investigated the report of larceny, forgery or fraud on Beach Street.
Tuesday, Sept. 16
9:40 a.m. An officer spoke at the police station with a man who had been notified by his bank about multiple attempted fraudulent charges to his business’ Mastercard account. The bank flagged the charges as fraud, the charges were not processed, and the man had not lost any money. The man went on to explain that he had also been the victim of identity fraud as someone had called the bank pretending to be him. The man told the officer that the person had called the bank and tried to make account changes using his Social Security number and his mother’s maiden name. The officer advised the man to monitor his credit and to place a freeze with all the major credit bureaus. The officer also explained how to report identity theft to the FTC. The officer told the man to check all his accounts and report any fraudulent activity he found.
10:32 a.m. An officer investigated suspicious activity reported on Barnard Hawkes Court.
12:44 p.m. An officer responded to the scene of a vehicle crash reported on Washington Street.
1:11 p.m. Larceny, forgery or fraud reported on Pequot Road.
Wednesday, Sept. 17
9:44 a.m. An officer investigated the report of a vehicle crash on Pleasant Street.
9:53 a.m. An officer spoke with a woman who had mailed a check for over $1,300 to the IRS about 10 days earlier by placing the stamped envelope containing the check inside the drive-up mailbox at the post office on Smith Street. On Sept. 16, the bank notified her that the check had apparently been stolen and altered, changing the payee and the amount to over $22,000. The bank had rejected the check, and the woman had frozen her credit and was in the process of changing her accounts but was concerned that her Social Security number was written on the check. She was advised to contact the Social Security office and also report the incident using identitytheft.gov. Police ran a computer search of the name of the payee and came back with only one match to a 20-year-old in Minnesota.
12:04 p.m. An officer took a report related to a past car crash on Rockaway and Summer streets.
12:55 p.m. While monitoring traffic at the intersection of Pleasant and Essex streets, an officer observed a black SUV enter the parking lot of 89 Pleasant St. and park in a clearly marked handicapped parking space. The driver and sole occupant exited the vehicle and proceeded inside Starbucks to retrieve her coffee order then returned to the vehicle and began to exit the lot. As she exited onto Spring Street, the officer observed her holding her cell phone and manipulating it as she proceeded on Spring Street to the stop sign at Pleasant Street. According to the officer’s report, he could see her still looking at and manipulating her cell phone and not proceeding past the stop sign despite having ample opportunity to do so, giving priority instead to whatever she was doing on her phone. When she finally took the right turn on Pleasant Street, the officer said he noticed that she was still using the phone and that there was not a visible handicapped-disabled placard displayed in her vehicle. As the officer proceeded onto Pleasant Street from Essex Street to get into position to conduct a traffic stop, the SUV in question, with the driver still using the phone, proceeded through the crosswalk at 89 Pleasant St., which was occupied by a woman and four school-aged children attempting to cross the street. According to the officer, the pedestrians had all left the sidewalk and were clearly in the SUV’s outbound lane of travel, which the driver failed to notice. The officer immediately conducted a traffic stop, reviewing with the driver the litany of bad behavior he had witnessed and issued her a citation.
6:01 p.m. An officer took a report of larceny, forgery or fraud on Washington Street.
Thursday, Sept. 18
2:19 p.m. An officer responded to the scene of a vehicle crash on Barnard Street.
3:07 p.m. An officer went to Manataug Trail to speak to a resident who for the past couple of years had been embroiled in a dispute with a neighbor over flooding that had been occurring at the man’s home, which he believed was due to his neighbor digging trenches to get floodwater to flow from his own yard into the the man’s yard. The man continued that, earlier in the day, his neighbor had a contractor come by related to some construction he was planning to alleviate the flooding issue. The only problem was the area the neighbor was intending to would be on the man’s property and not his own. The man acknowledged that it was a civil issue, and he had already obtained a lawyer, but he wanted to have his statements documented in a police report.
3:56 p.m. Officers responded to a disturbance on Pleasant Street.
6:47 p.m. Two officers were dispatched to Girdler Road to speak with a family of a 6-year-old who had been riding her bike around the neighborhood and had stopped to fix her bike seat when she was approached by a man who asked her her name and whether she needed help. He then offered her some Jolly Rancher candies. The child took the candies and left on her bike without further incident. The man was described as older, possibly with a brown beard, but the child had been unable to provide a name or a better description. The child also told her mother that the man might have been driving a truck with a trailer attached to the back. The officers searched the neighborhood but did not find anything suspicious or anyone matching the description. The officer advised the family to call 911 right away if the girl saw anything else or if remembered anything more.
7:56 p.m. An officer assisted with a disabled vehicle on Washington Street.
9:17 p.m. An officer investigated a report that a woman’s ex-boyfriend was harassing her.
9:38 p.m. Two officers were dispatched to Lincoln Avenue to investigate the report of an unwanted guest. The officers met with a couple who reported that they no longer want their downstairs “tenants” living in their home. The woman went onto say that she and her husband had met the downstairs couple through a Facebook site and agreed to provide the family a place to stay once they arrived in the United States on Sept. 8. The woman said they agreed to allow the family to live in their attached apartment, rent free, and would assist them in
finding housing and a job with the understanding that they would leave once they secured a job or another place to live. The woman stated that she had come to believe that the couple was not really trying to find a job or place to live and wanted the police to remove them from their home. The officers explained that the downstairs couple had rights as tenants, and that police could not remove the family simply because the woman, as landlord, no longer wanted to accommodate them. The officers explained to the woman that she would need to go through the civil legal process of eviction in order for the family to be forced out of their home. Though they did not like this answer, the woman and her husband said they would head to Housing Court in the morning.
Friday, Sept. 19
3:56 a.m. Officers investigate a report of suspicious activity on Washington Street.
10:49 a.m. A caller on Brown Street reported receiving annoying phone calls.
11:30 a.m. An officer went to Terry’s Ice Cream to speak to the owner about a now-former employee who had been terminated for stealing ice cream and sodas from the business. The owner then began to suspect that the former employee had also been stealing cash from the store and determined that money was missing from both the register and the tip jar. Using the security footage, the owner said he had been able to view the employee taking between $130 and $150 from the register. When confronted about the money, the former employee claimed she had only taken money that one time. The owner stated that he did not want to pursue any charges against the former employee, and that he only wanted the incident documented in case she returned to the store. The officer advised him about how to obtain a no-trespass order.
2:03 p.m. Officers, firefighters and ambulance crews responded to the scene of a vehicle crash on Tedesco Street and Leggs Hill Road.
3:31 p.m. Officers, firefighters and ambulance crews responded to the scene of another vehicle crash on Tedesco Street and Leggs Hill Road.
10:33 p.m. Officers investigated a disturbance reported on Pleasant Street that proved to be unfounded.
11:51 p.m. Officers responded to the report of a disturbance on Doaks Lane.
