POLICE LOG: Home Break-In Interrupted by Resident

The following is an excerpt from the Woburn Police Department log. Please note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account. We report all arrests included in the daily police log.

June 27-

At 12:53 p.m. police responded to a Mountain Street residence on a report of breaking and entering.

Police spoke to the caller who said hew as in a room on the second floor when he heard a noise and then a man’s voice say “there’s a flat screen T.V. up here.” The caller said he then saw a white male wearing a white T-shirt, tan shorts and a white baseball hat. Suspect was described as about 18-22 years old and about 5’10” with a thin build. The caller said he asked who the man was and the man said his name was “Derek.” The caller said he told the intruder not to move and that he was going to call the police but the man pushed by him, and after a struggle in the hallway, he ran down the stairs. The caller said the intruder fell down the stairs and landed on the floor at the bottom of the steps. From there he ran outside and got into a gray SUV that was being operated by a female with shoulder-length hair.

The caller provided police with a license plate number and said he could identity the suspect if he saw him again.

Police checked the area and found that a lawn chair had been used to access a window and that the screen was cut.

The suspect’s baseball hat, with a logo of a shield and the letters “K.SWISS” was also found at the scene. 

Other Incidents

June 26- 

At 1:51 p.m. police responded to Commerce Way on a report of a road rage incident. Police spoke to the caller who said hew as traveling north on Commerce way when a vehicle started tailgating him. When he stopped at the lights at Route 93  the operator of the tailgating car got out of the car and approached his, the caller said. The man then began banging on the windows and swearing at him. The caller said he told the man he was going to call the police and the man said “go ahead and call the [expletive deleted] cops.” He then sped off in his vehicle.

The caller described the man as about 25 years old and 6 feet tall with short black hair and wearing a Celtics shirt. He said the vehicle was yellowish-gray older Japanese vehicle.

At 7:35 p.m. a woman came to the station to report threats from her ex-boyfriend. She said she had left her boyfriend and told him that she was dating someone else. The ex allegedly then said he was going to kill the new man and his two children and that he wanted to ruin his life the way the new boyfriend had ruined his. He also said he would do whatever he could to portray the reporting party as a bad mother and gain custody of their 7-year-old child.

Police advised the woman of her rights to obtain a restraining order.

June 27- 

At 3:58 p.m. a man came to the station to report a past fraud. The man said that there was a second account added to his Verizon bill that seemed to be out of New York. He had already contacted Verizon, which cancelled the second account, but the company requested a police log to be filed.

At 8:43 p.m. police responded to an Elijah Street residence on a report of property damage by a motor vehicle that left the scene.

The caller showed police where a motor vehicle hit a section of his post and rail fence. It appeared from the track in the wet grass that a motor vehicle clipped the fence, just missed a fire hydrant, and left the area