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Watertown Police arrested a man who tried to make off with dozens of bottles of nail polish from Stop & Shop. When the man who allegedly tried to steal the items entered the supermarket on Watertown Street on Oct. 24 at 8:48 a.m. an employees recognized the man. He was suspected of taking items on previous occasions, said Watertown Police Lt. Michael Lawn. “The man was seen placing nail polish in his backpack,” Lawn said.
A jury found a friend of the Boston Marathon Bombing suspect guilty of lying to investigators during the investigation following the bombing at the marathon finish line. Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, faces up to 16 years in prison for the two counts, and he is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 29, according to a report from WBZ-TV Channel 4. He was found guilty at Boston Federal Court on Tuesday. Defense attorneys tried to argue that Phillipos could not remember what happened that day because he had been smoking marijuana, WCVB Channel 5 reported.
The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Oct. 13, 3:30 p.m.: A woman was placing items in a rolling hamper at Target and tried to leave without paying. She had a total of $325.38 in merchandise, and police also found a box cutter inside her pants. Additionally, she had two warrants.
A woman faces drunken driving charges after allegedly crashing into two parked cars. Watertown Police received a report of an auto accident on California Street on Oct. 18 at 1:55 a.m.
“Officers found a car facing the opposite direction and two parked cars with excessive damage,” said Watertown Police Lt. Michael Lawn. The car was heading westbound on California Street when it hit the two vehicles, Lawn said. Officers detected an odor of alcohol on the breath of the driver, identified as Corinne Tess Cartwright, 23, of Watertown.
The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Oct. 6, 10:03 a.m.: Police served a warrant to a man who worked in an office at Watertown Public Housing. The 58-year-old Watertown man was arrested on the warrant from Dedham District Court for driving an unregistered vehicle and uninsured driving. Oct.
A Massachusetts State Police helicopter joined the search for someone reportedly in the Charles River Friday night. “We got a report that someone fell or jumped into the river,” said Watertown Deputy Fire Chief Dan Tardiff. “We searched the river with State Police and with units on the shore. We didn’t find anyone.” Authorities got a report of someone who fell or jumped into the river after 7 p.m. Friday.
Watertown Police caught a man stealing items from a house on Bromfield Street. On Oct. 8 at 12:41 a.m., a man was spotted carrying a TV out of a home on Bromfield Street, and when police arrived they saw a man walk back into the house, said Watertown Police Lt. Michael Lawn. “Officers surrounded the house and rang the doorbell but there was no response,” Lawn said. “They heard someone dragging something across a floor and saw a man’s head pop up.”
Watertown Police officers will have their eye out for speeding and aggressive drivers.
The intensified enforcement effort against speeding and aggressive drivers underscores the severity of the problem locally and nationwide, according to the announcement from the police. “Speeding greatly reduces a driver’s ability to steer safely around another vehicle, a hazardous object, or an unexpected curve. Speeding drivers put themselves, their passengers, and other drivers at tremendous risk,” said Watertown Police Sgt. David Sampson. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2012 speeding was a contributing factor in more than a third of all fatal crashes in Massachusetts. Aggressive driving includes many unlawful and dangerous actions, such as exceeding posted speed limits, driving too fast for road conditions, changing lanes without signaling or yielding to other drivers, and improper passing, Sampson said.