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The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Oct. 23, 2:55 a.m.: Police responded to CVS on Main Street for a report of suspicious activity. While they were there they encountered a man and in the course of speaking with him police discovered the man had a warrant for his arrest. The 45-year-old Waltham man was arrested on the warrant for trespassing.
Update: Watertown Police announced on Nov. 3 that they had identified the woman. Original story:
Watertown Police seek help identifying a woman suspected of taking a wallet from Russo’s.
On Oct. 24 at 4:45 p.m. a woman reported that her wallet had been taken from the market on Pleasant Street. The woman mistakenly left her wallet in a shopping carriage when she was putting her groceries into her vehicle. When she realized what she had done she returned to the store, but the wallet was gone, according to Watertown Police Lt. James O’Connor.
The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Oct. 17, 5:26 p.m.: An officer patrolling on Arlington Street spotted a vehicle being driven by a person he knew to have a suspended license due to an OUI pass by. The officer radioed in to have other officers be on the lookout, but the same vehicle came back in the opposite direction so the officer pulled the vehicle over. The driver had a strong odor of alcohol and showed signs of intoxication.
A Boston man and a New Jersey man face drug dealing charges after being arrested by police following an investigation by drug investigators from Middlesex County and Boston. On the afternoon of Oct. 21 members of the Suburban Middlesex County Drug Task Force – which includes an officer from Watertown – working with the Boston Police Drug Control Unit were watching two individuals in the parking lot of Target on Arsenal Street, near Friendly’s, said Watertown Police Sgt. Thomas Grady. “The officers observed behavior consistent with drug dealing,” Grady said.
When Belmont High School’s football team travels to Watertown this Thanksgiving for a football game, more will be on the line than just the game. Captain Ken Gardiner, Fire Inspector with the Belmont Fire Department, and Captain Ryan Nicholson, Fire Inspector with the Watertown Fire Department, agreed on a wager after being approached by Kidde, a manufacturer of smoke alarms based in Mebane, NC, the fire inspectors announced. The wager is simple: The winning fire department will receive 50 smoke alarms
and the losing department will receive 25 alarms. The inspector of the losing town will install smoke alarms in their community wearing the football jersey of the winning team’s school. Both inspectors also agreed that the alarms will be installed in high-risk homes (elderly and low-income). The Kidde smoke alarms being donated feature a sealed 10-year battery which eliminates the need to replace batteries for the life of the alarm.
The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Oct. 11, 8:45 a.m.: Maynard Police contacted Watertown Police to say a woman wanted on a charges of violating a harassment order in Maynard was in Watertown. Police located the woman at Main Street and Myrtle Street and arrested her. The 28-year-old Watertown woman was brought to the Watertown Police Station where Maynard Police took her into custody.
{Updated Oct. 21 at 11:13 a.m.}
Watertown Police announced that a major accident on Main Street Friday afternoon has closed the road to traffic in both directions. The accident which involved a motorcycle and a car occurred near the line with Waltham between Longfellow Road and Warren Street in Waltham around 2 p.m. Serious injuries resulted from the crash. The incident remains under investigation by the Watertown Police Department, according to Lt. James O’Connor. One lane of traffic was open at 2:30 p.m. and all lanes were opened by 5:20 p.m.
The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Oct. 6, 11:02 a.m.: A resident spotted a vehicle parked on Myrtle Street and thought that the occupant was acting suspiciously. When police spoke to the man they discovered his registration had been cancelled and he had an arrest warrant. The 30-year-old Boston man was arrested for the warrant from Concord District Court for larceny.