Crime & Safety
Female Tasered on Brookside Drive
The following information was supplied by the Andover Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

The following are excerpts from the log. The log is open to the public.
Monday, July 10
At 1:34 a.m. a fire was reported on School Street. The fire was just a campfire and it was put out.
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At 12:05 p.m. a caller reported a motor vehicle accident on Central Street. Injuries were reported.
At 12:54 p.m. fire personnel responded to a bursh fire on River Road.
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At 1:52 p.m. a caller reported people paddle-boarding on Haggetts Pond. An officer could not locate the subjects.
At 3:13 p.m. a caller reported that his motor vehicle was vandalized sometime last night on Bulfinch Drive.
At 3:35 p.m. a caller reported that items were stolen from his motor vehicle on Ferndale Avenue.
Tuesday, July 10
At 3:02 a.m. a caller reported multiple gunshots on High Plain Road.
At 11:46 a.m. police arrested Gengxi Chen, 41, of 502 Brookside Drive, on Brookside Drive. Chen was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest. A female caller reported that Chen allegedly pulled a knife on her. When the caller was hiding in a bathroom of the club house on Brookside Drive, police found Chen, who they had to taser.
At 2:04 p.m. a walk-in visitor reported that his car was vandalized by a dog jumping on it on Chestnut Street.
At 7 p.m. police arrested Lee Alan Barns, 43, of 783 Whitehall Place, Southaven, M.S., on River Road. Barns was charged with assault and battery on a household member.
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