The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department.
July 25: A grey Porsche parked on the side of Belmont Street was struck by another vehicle. The driver left the scene of the collision.
July 25: Someone entered the storage room of an apartment building on Mt. Auburn Street and rummaged through storage lockers. Items from the lockers were strewn around and bike frames were lying on the floor. Nothing was reported missing.
July 25: A woman entered Target and took $276 worth of clothing, electronics and sporting goods and left without paying.
July 25: Approximately $200 worth of merchandise, including baby clothing was taken from Target by a man and a woman.
July 25: An iPhone was found on the ground at the corner of Bancroft Street and Edenfield Avenue. It was taken to the Police Station. The owner can contact police at 617-972-6500.
July 25: An electric scooter was taken from outside a home on Acton Street. The lock was cut off the Pro E Kick scooter. It is valued at $500.
July 26: While observing traffic on Arsenal Street at 1:53 a.m., Officer Liam Connelly spotted a vehicle going 44 mph in a 30 mph zone. The grey Honda was pulled over and Connelly observed that the driver had glassy and bloodshot eyes. She took field sobriety tests and as a result was placed under arrest. Emily Hayden, 43, of Watertown, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding.
July 26: A woman took $184 in groceries and health and beauty items from Target.
July 26: A woman was seen cutting wires off a utility pole on Bigelow Avenue. Police believe she was the same person who damaged shrubbery and landscaping at the Watertown Savings Bank branch on Bigelow on July 23. The investigation is ongoing.
July 26: A man took a bottle of Johnnie Walker Double Black valued at $140 from Arsenal Wine & Spirits.
July 27: A shoplifter stole three pairs of sneakers with a total value of $275 from Nike.
July 27: A man was stopped by loss prevention staff at Target for taking various apparel items valued at $175. Reney Quintana, 27 of Lynn, was arrested for shoplifting by Officer Jean Valbrun.
July 27: A resident was owed $2,000 by someone, and asked the person to send it by CashApp. The person paid $900, but didn’t get the whole amount back.
July 28: A man was found lying on the pavement at the end of the path at the corner of Arlington Street and Nichols Avenue shortly after midnight. Officer Colton Bailey discovered the man had two warrants for his arrest. Nicholas Marks, 34, was arrested on the warrant from South Boston District Court for shoplifting, assault with a dangerous weapon, and malicious destruction of property; and one from Boston District Court for intimidation of a witness.
July 29: A Boyd Street resident mailed a check from the mailbox outside the Post Office on Galen Street on June 27. On July 29, the resident was told the payment never went through. After contacting the bank, the resident discovered that on July 9 someone cashed the check for $5,186.
July 29: A vehicle was broken into on Riverside Street sometime after 7 p.m. on July 28. A purse was stolen, which contained cash, a driver’s license, and a credit card. The vehicle had been left unlocked. Police are investigating.
July 29: Electronics were taken from an apartment on Cypress Street. The residence was broken into on July 28 and the incident was reported the next day. There were no signs of forced entry. The resident believes someone found the hide-a-key. The incident is still under investigation.
July 29: Officer Don Pham was assisting someone across Mt. Auburn Street for the bingo night at St. James Armenian Church when a vehicle did not stop. Pham had to step out of the way and the vehicle’s mirror struck his hand. The vehicle stopped and Sgt. Eric Garabedian was called to the scene. He found that the driver had a suspended license. Jonathan Gomes, 24 of Boston, was arrested for driving with a suspended license, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, and a crosswalk violation.
July 29: A man seen walking around the driveway of a home on Dexter Avenue at 11:41 p.m. Officer Frank Forde was dispatched and saw them walking in the backyard carrying an electric grill. Forde recognized the man from earlier in the night when he was summoned to court for shoplifting $120 worth of food and merchandise from Target. When the man saw the officer, he became fidgety, reached into his pocket, and dropped something on the ground. Forde found a small, tied-off plastic bag with a white powder inside. When searched, the suspect also had two credit cards with another person’s name on them, and he was unable to explain why he had them. Michael Hickey, 43 of Boston, was arrested on two counts of receiving stolen property, and possession of a Class B drug — cocaine.
July 30: A Toyota Prius parked on Robert Ford Road had scratches on the hood. It appeared to have been keyed.
July 30: Someone threw away items into the dumpster at the Watertown Boys & Girls Club.
July 30: Two cardboard U-Haul boxes were left on the corner of Cypress and Laurel streets. They were filled with trash.
July 30: A man in his second day working at Chipotle was in the manager’s office watching orientation videos. The manager left and when she came back she found notifications on her phone from her bank about suspicious activity. Two charges had been declined: one for $1,119 and the other for $1,010. The manager looked at security video, which showed the employee picking up her phone and credit cards, taking pictures of them, and trying to use them to make purchases on his own phone. He noticed when the notifications came through on her phone, and he tried the swipe them away. The employee admitted to trying to make the fraudulent purchases. William Rosado Ramirez, 19, of Boston, was arrested for attempted larceny by single scheme.
July 30: A resident wrote a check for $15 on July 22 and sent it from the mailbox at Parker and Mt. Auburn streets. Someone took the check and tried to cash it for $1,700.
July 31: Police are investigating a series of vehicle break-ins. On the evening of July 30 to the morning of July 31, four vehicles on Wilson Avenue, two on Standish Road, one on Springfield Street, one on Channing Road, one on Fairview Avenue, one on Warwick Road, and one on Loomis Avenue, were broken into. All the vehicles had been left unlocked. More vehicle break-ins were reported nearby in Belmont.
July 31: A man went into Target and took $100 in merchandise.
July 31: A woman took several items from Nike valued at $138.
Aug. 1: The front window of the Art of Blades on Mt. Auburn Street was smashed. The damage was reported on Aug. 1, but it likely took place on July 24 or 25. The cost of the damage is $900.
Aug. 1: Multiple cars were vandalized between 10 p.m. on July 31 and the morning of the 1st. The tires were slashed on five vehicles on Woodview Way.
Aug. 1: A man paid for items at Ulta Beauty with a fake $50 bill.
Aug. 1: A woman took $127 worth of merchandise from Target.
Aug. 1: Det. Brendan Wojtowicz spotted two men damaging a vehicle in the parking lot of Metro Mini Mart. While driving down Main Street, Wojtowicz saw two men sitting outside a BMW, who then walked over to a red Honda parked nearby. They returned to their vehicle and one of the men took out a switchblade knife and stabbed all four tires on the Honda. The men went back to the BMW, and Wojtowicz pulled in and confronted them. He learned that both of the men had a warrant for their arrest. Gideon White, 25 of Lowell, was arrested for carrying a dangerous weapon, conspiracy, and malicious destruction of property, and the fugitive from justice warrant out of New Hampshire. Goodzadey Louis, 33, of Boston, was arrested on charges of malicious destruction of motor vehicle, disorderly conduct, conspiracy, carrying a dangerous weapon, and the warrant from Brockton District Court for driving a motor vehicle with a suspended license.
Aug. 3: A driver parked on Phillips Street on Aug. 1, and when he returned on Aug. 3 he noticed that the rear driver’s side window was smashed out.
Aug. 4: Two shoplifters were arrested for taking items at Target. Both were under 21 and had alcohol and other products. Seth Mora, 20, of Somerville, was arrested for shoplifting, possession of alcohol by a person under 21. Saeed Ahianyedi, 18, of Somerville, was arrested for shoplifting and possession of alcohol by a person under 21.
Aug. 4: A woman was spotted shoplifting twice from the CVS on Mt. Auburn Street on the same day. She took a total of $783, mostly cosmetics.
This is not my hometown that I grew up in. People coming from other cities to steal and just walk out with hundreds of dollars of merchandise. I am glad I moved out and now live in the Midwest where you get arrested doing this. It is just crazy.
Thank you for posting that tires were slashed on Woodview Way (Bell Watertown Apartments), I live here and we were all shocked that this happened on a night when it was pouring (and not late at night either). A neighbor was able to take a very grainy video of a guy, but if anyone knows anything we would all appreciate it if you contacted WPD!!
I’ve been shopping at Target since before it was Target (Ann & Hope). But I feel I’m just abetting a criminal organization now. This is looting in slow motion. I praise the police when they make an arrest; I praise stores when their security prevents a crime. But the relentless thievery in the same stores, week after week, crime report after crime report, suggests we tolerate a level of anarchy that I don’t tolerate. From what I read here, WE don’t. Yet we pay for it, and not just at the check-out. It is mostly out-of-towners, as you say. Criminals prefer an easy hit, a clueless mark. They’ll travel for the privilege. We, all of us, are less safe with them in our midst. But we elect the people who appoint the people who permit, even encourage, this to happen. We can keep doing that, and revel in our den of iniquity; or we can elect people who will appoint people to stop it. The police do their best with the resources they have. We have to self-rescue. Or we can move to the midwest. Perhaps just not Chicago.