POLICE LOG: Over $2K Worth of Materials Stolen from Business, Fence Cut

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.

Featured Incident

April 8-

At 1:29 p.m. police responded to Palmer Spring to take a report of larceny. Police spoke to the caller who said numerous items were stolen from a fenced-in area of the business. The caller showed police that the fence closest to the railroad tracks had been cut. There was also a piece of fence cut on the other side of the tracks leading up to Pine Street.

Caller said he believed the break happened on Sunday when nobody was there. In total approximately $2,125 worth of items, including scrap metal, truck parts, hot wheel cars, lighters and coil springs was stolen.

Other Incidents

April 8-

At 12:48 p.m. police responded to the Shamrock School on a report of a disturbance. Police located a male party who had been involved in a verbal argument, who said he got into a verbal altercation with a woman outside of the school. Police reminded the man, who they knew, that he was not supposed to be on school property with his dog. Police sent him on his way.

Police then spoke to a member of the school staff who said school officials had asked the man multiple times not to be on the property with his dog. She said when she told him to leave in this instance he began screaming obscenities at her. Police advised school officials to take out a no trespass order.

At 1:37 p.m. police responded to the Dollar Tree on a report of shoplifting. A store manager reported a suspect was in the parking lot in a black Ford Expedition and had left her pocketbook in the store.

Police spoke with the store manager who explained that two females were walking raound the store concealing items in one of the woman’s pocketbook.

When he approached them they hid the pocketbook behind the cashier aisle and left.

Police spoke to one of the women who came back into the store. They opened the pocketbook and found 14 items concealed for a total of $14. The store manager did not wish to prosecute but did ask that a no trespass order be given to the women.

At 2:56 p.m. police responded to Holton Street on a report of a stolen motor vehicle. The caller said he had just bought a 1994 Infinity G20 and had it parked next to his house and it was now missing. He said he last saw the vehicle on April 7.

A stolen/recovered motor vehicle report was filled out and signed by the victim.