Reading Police Log November 1-3, 2024

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

Friday, November 1, 2024

• 5:18am – Commercial alarm at TASC on Walkers Brook Drive.
• 5:51am – Traffic enforcement on Grove Street.
• 6:23am – Traffic enforcement on Catherine Avenue.
• 6:27am – Traffic enforcement on Middlesex Avenue.
• 6:57am – Traffic enforcement on Lowell Street.
• 7:30am – Crossing guard unable to cover post at Summer Avenue and King Street.
• 8:06am – Traffic enforcement on Arthur B. Lord Drive.
• 8:07am – Traffic enforcement on Woburn Street.
• 8:15am – Verbal warning issued for failure to yield on Main Street.
• 8:30am – Community policing for a drone demonstration at Killam Elementary School.
• 8:50am – Complaint regarding vehicles parked on Strout Avenue.
• 10:00am – Suspicious person yelled at a caller and is now waiting in the lot at the Shell station on Walkers Brook Drive.
• 10:36am – Middlesex Avenue resident reports ID theft.
• 11:12am – Fire alarm activation at a Woburn Street building.
• 11:44am – Vine Street resident reports attempted ID theft.
• 12:35pm – Traffic enforcement on Summer Avenue.
• 12:46pm – Traffic enforcement on Main Street.
• 1:07pm – Verbal warning issued for a red light violation on Salem Street.
• 1:17pm – Verbal warning issued for a red light violation on Salem Street.
• 1:26pm – Verbal warning issued for a red light violation on Salem Street.
• 2:06pm – Large tarp in the road on Lowell Street.
• 2:16pm – Verbal warning issued for a red light violation on Main Street.
• 2:21pm – Fire alarm activation at a Pearl Street residence.
• 3:50pm – Lights not cycling properly at West Street and Arcadia Avenue.
• 3:58pm – Smoke detector activation due to cooking at a Bay State Road residence.
• 4:00pm – Lakeview Avenue property owner requests multiple tows.
• 4:04pm – Main Street cyclist states that they were struck by a vehicle.
• 4:15pm – Lift assist for a Randall Road resident.
• 4:34pm – Mutual aid for a two-vehicle crash on Route 93.
• 5:12pm – Traffic enforcement on Green Street.
• 5:24pm – Traffic enforcement on Catherine Avenue.
• 5:30pm – Telephone pole is down on B Street with wires in several yards.
• 5:58pm – Report of a suspicious vehicle on Edgemont Avenue.
• 6:35pm – Traffic enforcement on Birch Meadow Drive.
• 6:36pm – Report of a large fire pit fire on Putnam Road.
• 7:26pm – Tree branch in the road on Melbourne Avenue.
• 9:54pm – Suspicious vehicle reported on Johnson Woods Drive.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

• 12:05am – Commercial alarm at a Taylor Drive building.
• 1:28am – Officer out with a possible disabled vehicle on Main Street.
• 3:00am – Suspicious person is sleeping in the vestibule of a Lincoln Street building.
• 5:44am – Lift assist for a Walnut Street resident.
• 6:02am – Traffic enforcement on Rocky Road.
• 6:43am – Traffic enforcement on Summer Avenue.
• 7:14am – Traffic enforcement on Woburn Street.
• 8:02am – Franklin Street resident reports a burning odor and haze in the area.
• 8:52am – Report of an ongoing issue with vehicles going through a Lowell Street crosswalk while red.
• 10:07am – Brook Street resident reports an abandoned bicycle.
• 12:25pm – Canterbury Drive resident reports that a neighbor’s partygoers are parking on their lawn.
• 1:18pm – Investigation of an unattended bag in the parking lot at Oye’s Restaurant.
• 1:52pm – Forest Street resident reports a sick raccoon in their yard.
• 2:31pm – Report that a youth is riding a go-cart on Shady Hill Lane.
• 3:43pm – Fire alarm activation in a Washington Street building.
• 4:50pm – Traffic enforcement on Rustic Lane.
• 5:15pm – Traffic enforcement on Catherine Avenue.
• 5:24pm – Traffic enforcement on Walkers Brook Drive.
• 5:56pm – Fire alarm activation at Camp Rice Moody on Rice Road.
• 7:39pm – Mill Street resident reports being harassed by a vehicle.
• 7:43pm – Oven fire reported at an Avon Street residence.
• 7:59pm – Youths are knocking on doors on Pine Ridge Road.
• 8:09pm – Report that a large group of youths are screaming and grabbing pumpkins on Pearl Street.
• 9:23pm – Avon Street resident reports neighbors throwing a large party.
• 10:29pm – Traffic enforcement on Ash Street. 

Sunday, November 3, 2024

• 6:19am – Traffic enforcement on Main Street.
• 6:55am – Traffic enforcement on Catherine Avenue.
• 8:46am – Dog is off its leash at Parker Middle School.
• 9:29am – Complaint regarding a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed on Forest Street.
• 10:03am – Fire alarm activation at a Criterion Road residence.
• 12:07pm – Traffic enforcement on Lowell Street.
• 12:14pm – Verbal warning issued on Sanborn Street for failure to display a license plate.
• 12:19pm – Traffic enforcement on Franklin Street.
• 1:51pm – Illegal outside burning reported on Federal Street.
• 2:03pm – Traffic enforcement on West Street.
• 2:42pm – Verbal warning issued for speed on West Street.
• 5:52pm – Grey’s Towing on Minot Street reports threats made earlier in the day.
• 8:28pm – Traffic enforcement on Walkers Brook Drive.