Reading, MA – Excerpts from the Reading Police and Fire log:
Friday, October 6, 2023
- 12:12am – Multiple calls for audible alarms at an Archstone Circle building.
- 12:40am – Extra check of Cooling Unlimited on Main Street.
- 4:20am – Lift assist for a Salem Street resident.
- 6:05am – Commercial alarm at Anthony’s Roast Beef on Main Street.
- 8:56am – Wallet of a Glen Road resident turned in at Methuen PD.
- 9:37am – Assistance rendered to a person seeking assistance with a banking issue.
- 9:45am – Officer informed that a purse is hanging off a vehicle at a Main Street building.
- 11:27am – Follow-up visit regarding an MBTA complaint with a Minot Street resident.
- 12:17pm – Haven Street resident reports missing money.
- 12:38pm – Traffic enforcement on South Street.
- 12:43pm – Report that a suspicious person dressed in camo and holding a crossbow entered the woods on Symonds Way.
- 12:52pm – Disabled vehicle on Elliott Street.
- 1:51pm – Mass Highway notified of a deceased raccoon on Main Street.
- 2:07pm – Traffic enforcement on Main Street.
- 2:13pm – Complaint regarding multiple construction vehicles parked on Franklin Street.
- 2:34pm – Extra check of CVS on Main Street.
- 2:35pm – PD and FD notified that a private investigator will be on Beaver Road.
- 2:44pm – Verbal warning issued for a marked lanes violation on Washington Street.
- 2:57pm – Fire alarm sounding in the basement of a Salem Street residence.
- 3:23pm – Pizza World on Main Street reports that a ladder and other items were stolen from the rear of the building.
- 3:40pm – Report that a person threw a plastic water bottle at a vehicle on Birch Meadow Drive.
- 4:09pm – iPhone case turned in at RPD.
- 6:19pm – Commercial alarm at New Federal Mortgage on Lincoln Street.
- 6:49pm – Extra check of Cooling Unlimited on Main Street.
- 6:50pm – Smoke alarm activation at a Summer Avenue residence.
- 8:00pm – Report that someone stole from the food pantry box at Market Basket on General Way.
- 9:51pm – Report that youths are gathering behind Birch Meadow Elementary School.
- 10:37pm – Lift assist for a Summit Drive resident.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
- 12:58am – Extra check of Cooling Unlimited on Main Street.
- 6:40am – Archstone Circle complaint that a vehicle is blocking a resident’s vehicle.
- 10:19am – Extra check of a Longview Road residence.
- 10:54am – Follow-up visit at Pizza World on Main Street.
- 12:38pm – Investigation of a two-vehicle crash on Washington Street.
- 2:28pm – Investigation of a two-vehicle crash on Walkers Brook Drive.
- 2:32pm – RFD reports a minor two-vehicle crash on Main Street.
- 3:26pm – Traffic enforcement on Main Street.
- 3:26pm – Traffic enforcement on Walkers Brook Drive.
- 4:10pm – Report of a disabled FedEx truck on West Street.
- 4:12pm – Verbal warning issued for a red light violation on Union Street.
- 4:25pm – Willard Street resident reports sewage backing up into the basement.
- 5:30pm – Officer standing by for the water department on Willard Street.
- 6:45pm – Report that youths are going into a Main Street construction area.
- 7:23pm – Report of a suspicious vehicle pulling into driveways on Juniper Circle.
- 8:41pm – Traffic control at RMHS.
- 9:33pm – Text-a-Tip report of underage drinking on Middlesex Avenue.
- 10:00pm – Report that three cars are parkied in the Library parking lot on Middlesex Avenue.
- 10:35pm – Report that a large group of youths are gathering on the basketball court in Washington Park.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
- 12:32am – Youths gathering on Washington Street.
- 12:33am – Report that a group of youths are being loud and disruptive on Woburn Street.
- 12:41am – Report that a group of youths are being loud and disruptive on the depot platform.
- 1:19am – Extra check of Cooling Unlimited on Main Street.
- 1:28pm – Extra check of a Longview Road residence.
- 1:53am – Unit came upon a large Halloween decoration in the road on Haverhill Street.
- 2:28am – Lift assist for a Salem Street resident.
- 7:10am – Report that the fire alarm system is in trouble mode at an Augustus Court building.
- 10:18am – Extra check of a Longview Road residence.
- 10:31am – Investigation of a two-vehicle crash on Franklin Street.
- 11:02am – Salem Street resident unable to ambulate.
- 1:12pm – Officer out with a person with head lacerations on Lowell Street.
- 2:10pm – Main entrance alarm at Parker Middle School.
- 2:29pm – Traffic enforcement on Main Street.
- 2:35pm – Traffic enforcement on Park Avenue.
- 2:47pm – Traffic enforcement on General Way.
- 4:55pm – County Road resident reports blackmail.
- 6:48pm – Loose dog reported on Knollwood Road.
- 7:15pm – Concern over crowd size at RMHS.
- 8:00pm – Traffic enforcement on Weston Road.
- 8:06pm – Traffic enforcement on West Street.
- 8:19pm – Report of a suspicious vehicle on Longview Road.
- 9:22pm – Traffic enforcement on Pleasant Street.
- 10:37pm – Units standing by for event traffic control on Birch Meadow Drive.
- 11:03pm – Verbal warning issued for a red light violation on Salem Street.
