Reading Police & Fire Log August 25-28, 2022

Reading, MA – Excerpts from the Reading Police and Fire Log:

Thursday, August 25, 2022

• 1:53am – Wakefield PD reported loud music in the area of Jordan’s Furniture on Walkers Brook Drive
• 4:24am – Gray Honda Circling the area of School Street & Middlesex Avenue
• 8:20am – Commercial alarm Bertucci’s Restaurant Walkers Brook Drive
• 8:43am – Parking Complaint Salem Street lot. 
• 8:44am – Residential alarm Whittier Road
• 10:30am – Suspicious male at the door of a Timberneck Drive home stating he works for the City
• 10:35am – Minor Motor Vehicle Crash Harden Street & Anton’s Cleaners. No injuries.
• 11:17am – Purse left behind at Cafe Nero on Main Street
• 11:57am – Outside odor of gas on Main Street & Woburn Street
• 12:14pm – Wires down in road on Lowell Street
• 12:26pm – Traffic Enforcement Franklin Street & Susan Drive. 0 Citations. 
• 1:03pm – Accidental 911 cell call Main Street & Bear Mountain
• 1:33pm – Traffic Enforcement Chapin Avenue. 1 Citation for wrong way violation.
• 1:43pm – Wires down in the road on Lowell Street.
• 1:56pm – Accidental 911 Reading Public Library – Accidental elevator button pushed by child 
• 2:25pm – 911 hang up Washington Street & Elliott Street. Accidental cell call.
• 3:18pm – Traffic Enforcement Chapin Avenue. 0 citations. 
• 4:01pm – Report unauthorized charges on Credit Card on Abigail Way.
• 4:20pm – Alarm at Parker Middle School on Temple Street. 
• 4:56pm – Attempt to serve a witness summons Washington Street.
• 5:26pm – Female believes she left her purse in 3rd-floor bathroom New Crossing Road
• 6:03pm – Commercial alarm Family Dental Main Street
• 6:55pm – Directed Patrol – Mattera Cabin on Main Street.
• 7:22pm – Building check Ash Street
• 8:34pm –  Commercial Alarm Grove Street
• 8:34pm – Young Golden Retriever Found Wandering on Salem Street & John Street
• 8:36pm – Building Checks Buckingham Drive
• 8:51pm – Motor Vehicle Stop Main Street & Birch Meadow Drive. Verbal Warning; no headlights.
• 10:26pm – Apartment lockout Lakeview Avenue.
• 11:00pm – Commercial building check Mattera Cabin on Main Street.
• 11:04pm – Commercial building check Jordans Furniture on Walkers Brook Drive.

Friday, August 26, 2022

• 2:12am – Residential Building Check Buckingham Drive.
• 2:30am – Commercial Building Check Market Basket on General Way.
• 2:51am – Commercial Building Check Jordan’s Furniture on Walkers Brook Drive.
• 6:47am – Commercial Alarm Chili’s Restaurant on Walkers Brook Drive.
• 8:39am – Traffic Enforcement Walnut Street & Red Gate Lane. 0 Citations.
• 9:34am – FD assisting High Street resident with a smoke detector. 
•  9:57am – Suspicious Person/Activity North Main Street. 
• 10:19am – Traffic Enforcement Salem Street. 0 Citations. 
• 10:41am – Male reporting past hit & run over the weekend at Market Basket on General Way.
• 10:53am – Larceny/Shoplifting at Market Basket on General Way. Staff has shoplifter detained.
• 11:32am – Elderly male on a bench in front of Stop and Shop appears confused.
• 11:36am – Community Policing Officers escorting a funeral procession to Woodend Cemetery.
• 11:51am – Minor Two-Car Motor Vehicle Crash Arcadia Avenue & West Street. No injuries.
• 12:18pm – Mass DOT notified for a deceased skunk on South Main Street.
• 12:20pm – Fire Alarm Activation Bancroft Avenue. No smoke or fire.
• 1:37pm – FD assisting with a lift assist on Haven Street.
• 2:02pm – Large dumpster taking up half of Summer Avenue.
• 3:11pm – Fex-Ex truck sideswiped a car on Haven Street.
• 3:20pm – Water leaking from watergate Main Street & Woburn Street.
• 3:58pm – Neighbor having an outside fire on Forest Street
• 6:21pm – Traffic Enforcement on Timberneck Drive. 0 Citations.
• 7:02pm – Motor Vehicle Stop Main Street & Hopkins Street. Verbal warning for an improper left turn.
• 7:07pm – Traffic Enforcement Lowell Street. 0 Citations.
• 8:13pm – Commercial Building Check Mattera Cabin on Main Street. 
• 8:18pm – Commercial Alarm Salem Five Walkers Brook Drive.
• 8:37pm – Loud Dog in the area of Ash Street.
• 8:39pm – FD assisting a resident on Salem Street.
• 9:30pm – Residential Building Check on Buckingham Drive.
• 9:48pm – Commercial Building Alarm Market Basket on General Way. 

Saturday, August 27, 2022

• 1:22am – Report of a verbal argument in a parking lot on Washington Street.
• 7:17am – Female trapped in elevator on Summit Drive.
• 8:27am – Deceased opossum Main Street & Summer Avenue. Mass highway notified.
• 9:08am – Audible Alarm sounding in the area of The Met & Lincoln Street.
• 9:16am – Report of a small smoldering fire in Town Forest.
• 11:08am – Traffic Enforcement Tamarack Road & Timberneck Drive. 0 Citations.
• 12:09pm – Drainage Cover displaced in Crosswalk at Main Street & Haven Street.
• 1:19pm – 911 Hang Up from a Cell Phone Haverhill Street & Range Road.
• 1:36pm – Alarm at Parker Middle School on Temple Street.
• 2:16pm – Traffic Enforcement Pleasant Street & John Street. 0 Citations.
• 2:41pm – Tree appears to have been split by lightning overnight on Curtis Street.
• 3:00pm – Traffic Enforcement South Street & Jacob Way. 0 Citations.
• 3:27pm – 911 Hang Up Edgemont Avenue. Accidental by a small child.
• 5:06pm – Directed Patrol Ash Street. All appears in order.
• 5:22pm – Traffic Enforcement Timberneck Drive. 0 Citations.
• 6:35pm – FD Assisting Occupants of Bay State Road building. 
• 6:43pm – Commercial Alarm Reading Service Station on Main Street.
• 7:40pm – Disabled Motor Vehicle in the Rotary/Salem Street.
• 7:44pm – Traffic Enforcement West Street & Catherine Avenue. 0 Citations.
• 8:10pm – Traffic Enforcement Summer Avenue & Buckingham Drive. 0 Citations.
• 10:08pm – Female reporting past dog bite Wakefield Street & Charles Street.
• 10:19pm – Arrest/Summons OUI resulted from a motor vehicle stop on Main & Cross Street. 
• 10:25pm – Residential Building Check Buckingham Drive.
• 11:07pm – Officers Standing by for large crowd from Boston Train at Reading Depot. 

Sunday, August 28, 2022

• 12:15am – Report of Loud music; unknown source.
• 1:32am – Directed Patrol Ash Street. All appears in order.
• 3:57am – 911 call to regional, no answer on call back.
• 8:27am – Car in Stop & Shop on Walkers Brook Drive lot smoking and starting to show flames.
• 9:54am – Open 911 line from Hopkins Street call phone; voicemail on callback.
• 10:32am – Traffic Enforcement Tamarack Road & Timberneck. 0 Citations.
• 10:33am – Traffic Enforcement West Street & Catherine Avenue. 0 Citations.
• 11:07am – Possible Intoxicated Female Main Street & CVS.
• 1:56pm – Water problem Summit Drive.
• 1:59pm – 911 Abandoned Call Van Norden Road.
• 2:45pm – Traffic Enforcement Haverhill Street & Symonds Way. 0 Citations. 
• 2:52pm – Female Heard Yelling and Glass Breaking Washington Street.
• 3:06pm – Fairview Avenue male, receiving threats from a neighbor.
• 4:09pm – 911 Open Line from Main Street Cell phone.
• 4:26pm – 911 open line on Main Street; No answer on call back.
• 4:56pm – 911 open line on Chapel Hill Drive. No answer on call back.
• 5:32pm – Traffic Enforcement South Street & Curtis Street. 0 Citations.
• 5:42pm – FD to assist a resident with a stove on Woburn Street.
• 5:56pm – Woburn Street caller reporting she was previously attacked by a Dog.
• 6:14pm – Directed Patrol Ash Street. All appears in order.
• 7:15pm – Traffic Enforcement Timberneck Drive. 0 Citations.
• 7:19pm – Building Checks Buckingham Drive. All appears in order.
• 8:08pm – Loud party in the area of Burger King and Main Street.
• 9:50pm – Well-being check for Elderly Female on Main Street.
• 11:30pm – Residential Alarm Pasture Road.
• 11:54pm 101-year-old female with low blood pressure North Main Street.