Dog Bite, Theft, And More: Wellesley Police Log

May 2

12:45 p.m. - Officer Shore spoke with a woman at the police station regarding fraudulent wire transfers that were requested over the past few weeks from a business account for the company she works for. She stated both transfer requests appeared to have come from the company president, but she later learned that the email address of the requesting party was not the same email address as the company president. She contacted the businesses financial institution to request a stop on the second transfer but was unsure if that was successful. There are no suspects. The company is reviewing their server and website security.

1:54 p.m. - Officer Cunningham spoke with a letter carrier who had been bitten by a dog while delivering mail. The letter carrier suffered a dog bite on his calf. Officer Cunningham responded to the dog owner’s house and was advised the dog noticed the letter carrier speaking to a neighbor and the dog lunged at the letter carrier. Animal Control Officer Webb was notified and will follow up.

May 3

7:25 p.m. - Officer DeBernardi was on patrol on Worcester Street near Kingsbury Street when he observed an Acura and conducted a random query of the vehicle’s registration which showed that it was registered in November 2017, but had not yet been inspected. He stopped the car and while speaking with the operator noticed that the passenger was not wearing a seat belt. He asked the passenger, Marguerite Gravely, for her identification. A query of her information showed an active warrant issued out of Brockton District Court for motor vehicle related offenses. She was taken into custody.

May 4, 2018
9:02 a.m. - Officer Lindelof spoke with a man who stated on May 2, he realized he was missing his green card and notified the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. They advised him to file a police report as part of the process of replacing his green card.

7:00 p.m. - Officer Wall was dispatched to a residence on Royalston Road for a report of a dog walker leaving bags of dog feces on the reporting parties lawn. The reporting parties stated that it was an ongoing issue and that they had recently observed a young woman walking a small white dog and she did not pick up after the dog and when they confronted her with that they observed she had the same types of plastic bags that the dog feces found on their lawn had been in. They asked if she had left the bags of dog feces on her lawn and she indicated she had not. They provided an address which they believed to the home of the female dog walker. Officer Wall spoke with the residents of that address and they did not have a dog or a daughter the age of the woman described. Officer Wall advised the reporting parties to contact Animal Control Officer Webb to determine if there was a dog matching the description of the dog they saw that lives in the area and if there was she could speak to the owners about picking up after the dog.

9:59 p.m. - Officer Fritts was dispatched to the Boston Sports Club for a report of a wallet that had been stolen from a bag in an unlocked locker the prior evening and attempts to use his credit cards had occurred and been declined. The reporting party stated that he had contacted his credit card companies and cancelled the cards. He also stated that he had contacted the stores where the cards had been used. Officer Fritts asked him to forward the information regarding the credits cards to him so he could follow up.

May 5

2:45 a.m. - Officer D’Innocenzo was on patrol on Worcester Street near Overbrook Drive when he observed a Chevrolet traveling at a high rate of speed. He visually estimated the speed to be in excess of the 50 mph speed limit and confirmed it to be 85 mph. As Officer D’Innocenzo was following the vehicle prior to stopping it, the speed alternated between 60-90 mph. He stopped the vehicle on Worcester Street near Rockland Street and spoke with the operator, Andrew Frates, and detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his person and noticed that his eyes were glassy and bloodshot. Frates took and failed field sobriety tests. He was taken into custody.