Crime & Safety
Police Log: A Motel Stabbing, Idling Complaints and Possible Road Rage
The following information was provided by the Acton Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.

Wednesday, Oct. 9
1:12 a.m. – A woman reported people moving around inside an Arlington Street business when a cruiser drove by and checked with a spotlight. The responding officer reported it was the owner or employee who’s in there this time every night.
2:56 a.m. – Police responded to the Concordian Motel on Hosmer Street for a reported domestic. As a result, Christopher R. Cady, 39, who gave 71 Hosmer St., #7 as his address, was arrested and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, to wit: a knife.
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3 a.m. – Police responded to an alarm activation on Main Street.
7:30 a.m. – Police responded to a report claiming that, for the past few weeks, two vehicles have been idling in a Great Road parking lot for 20 minutes in the morning. The caller claimed this was a problem last winter, as well.
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9:14 a.m. – Police responded to Piper Road for a reported water main break.
11:41 a.m. – A past hit-and-run accident was reported from Great Road.
2:33 p.m. – Police responded to a reported motor vehicle accident on Central Street.
4:58 p.m. – Police responded to Great Road for a report of an unidentified odor in an area where high-efficiency gas boilers had been installed earlier in the day below a window to the unit.
6 p.m. – A Great Elm Way resident reported his son was being threatened by his mother.
8:20 p.m. – A disturbance was reported on Avalon Drive.
9:21 p.m. – Police responded to a reported disturbance in which a woman reported someone tried to hit her with their car.
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