Reading, MA – Excerpts from the Reading Police and Fire log:
Monday, November 13, 2023
- 1:28am – Extra check of a Longview Road residence.
- 1:35am – Extra check of a Hanscom Avenue residence.
- 5:51am – Unit reports a vehicle with its rear window down at the Honda Dealer on Walkers Brook Drive.
- 7:16am – Unit covering a crossing post at Main Street and Birch Meadow Drive.
- 7:41am – Unit covering a crossing post at Arthur B. Lord Drive and Birch Meadow Drive.
- 8:14am – Report of a person bowhunting in the Bare Meadow Recreation Area.
- 8:46am – Follow-up visit at the Shell gas station on Walkers Brook Drive.
- 9:22am – Report that a suspicious person is looking into vehicles at Christopher’s Restaurant on Main Street.
- 9:35am – Disabled school van on Harnden Street.
- 9:37am – Traffic enforcement on Johnston Circle.
- 9:38am – Fire drill at RMHS.
- 10:42am – Deceased cat in the road on Grove Street.
- 11:02am – Extra check of a Hanscom Avenue residence.
- 11:38am – Unfounded report that a home health aid attempted to assault an Archstone Circle resident.
- 12:18pm – Report that a vehicle is missing on Bancroft Avenue.
- 12:40pm – Officer on standby for DPW on Main Street.
- 12:46pm – Fire alarm activation and odor of smoke at a Bear Hill Road residence.
- 2:31pm – Unit covering a crossing post at Main Street and Arthur B. Lord Drive.
- 2:58pm – Traffic enforcement on Birch Meadow Drive.
- 3:12pm – Supervisory alarm at Reading Library on Middlesex Avenue.
- 4:16pm – Staff at Bear Mountain on Main Street reported that a resident had money stolen.
- 5:30pm – Traffic enforcement on Bethune Avenue.
- 6:36pm – Report that a vehicle is sitting in the parking lot at Bank of America on Main Street.
- 6:59pm – Extra check of a Longview Road residence.
- 7:00pm – Unit checks in on Town Meeting at RMHS.
- 7:20pm – Traffic enforcement on West Street.
- 8:58pm – Verbal warning issued on Washington Street.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
- 12:37am – Smoke alarm at a Lawrence Road residence.
- 7:31am – Officer covering a crossing post at Main Street and Brick Meadow Drive.
- 8:30am – Complaint regarding a tractor-trailer blocking John Street.
- 8:35am – Possible deceased animal on South Street.
- 9:34am – Fire drill at Parker Middle School.
- 9:37am – Possible deceased raccoon in the road on Main Street.
- 9:49am – Deceased opossum on Franklin Street.
- 9:56am – Fire drill at Joshua Eaton Elementary School.
- 10:12am – Fire drill at Coolidge Middle School.
- 10:13am – Fire drill at Birch Meadow Elementary School.
- 10:27am – Fire drill at Killam Elementary School.
- 10:30am – Caller believes someone has a key to their apartment.
- 10:46am – Federal Street resident reports a sick fox in their yard.
- 10:51am – Frank Tanner Drive resident reports a past odor of smoke in the hallway.
- 11:00am – Report of a stolen vehicle located on Bancroft Avenue.
- 11:52am – Possible sick or injured fox in the front yard of a Bethesda Lane resident.
- 11:57am – Report of a suspicious person in the Town Forest.
- 12:48pm – Resident reports that a possibly abandoned vehicle has been parked for over a week on Azalea Circle.
- 1:33pm – Commercial alarm at Dandilyons on Main Street.
- 1:56pm – Verbal warning issued for a red light violation on Lowell Street.
- 2:38pm – Gould Street resident reports being harassed by another resident.
- 3:12pm – Police escort of the RMHS girl’s field hockey team.
- 3:14pm – John Street resident reports two suspicious persons.
- 3:28pm – Clinician visits a West Street residence.
- 4:07pm – Vapes and marijuana paraphernalia were found on the side of the road on Pearl Street.
- 4:37pm – Commercial alarm at Dandilyons on Main Street.
- 5:09pm – Propane grill fire at a Marla Lane residence.
- 6:01pm – MBTA Bus disabled at a bus stop on Walkers Brook Drive.
- 6:13pm – Audible alarm on Pearl Street.
- 6:32pm – Traffic enforcement on Forest Street.
- 8:20pm – Traffic enforcement on Weston Street.
- 8:54pm – Wallet found on Ash Street.
- 9:05pm – Verbal warning issued on John Carver Road.
- 9:45pm – Traffic enforcement on Catherine Avenue.
