WESTFIELD
Emergency Response and Crime Report
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014
3:29 a.m.: suspicious vehicle, Montgomery Street, a patrol officer reports he observed an occupied vehicle parked at a closed business which the community policing officer for the area had asked officers to keep an eye on, the officer reports the vehicle left as he approached and it was stopped on Crown Street, the operator’s license was found to be suspended, Brett S. O’Connor, 23, of 220 Springdale Road, was arrested for operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, a passenger was provided a courtesy transport to a Washington Street address;
12:40 p.m.: larceny, Springfield Road, a caller from a Springfield Road department store reports a person in the store stole another customer’s purse, the responding officer reports a store security employee said that a woman was seen to take a purse from another shopper’s cart and leave the store with it, the woman was accosted outside and the purse was recovered but the suspect fled, the employee said that as she attempted to read the license plate of the vehicle the woman fled to the suspect bent the plate down to prevent her from reading it, the officer found that a similar incident had been reported recently at a Northampton supermarket and the vehicle was identified, when contacted by police the owner of the vehicle said that his brother had the car which was probably being operated by his brother’s girlfriend, photographs of the woman were obtained and she was identified as the suspect, a warrant application was filed;
1:22 p.m.: larceny, Evergreen Manor, 9191 Southampton Road, a caller reports tires and rims were stolen from her storage unit, the responding officer reports the complainant said that on Feb. 8 she found that her storage unit had been compromised and a set of tires mounted on chrome rims was missing, the woman said that the purchase price for the wheels was $1,050, the woman said that she had not reported the loss immediately because she had been told that the wheels had been located but when she was able to inspect them she found them not to be the ones which are missing;
1:47 p.m.: larceny, South Broad Street, a representative of a South Broad Street trucking company came to the station to report that a book of inspection stickers has been stolen, the responding officer reports the company’s terminal manager explained that the company had recently completed a move to Westfield and once the move was complete an audit revealed a book of inspection stickers to be missing;
4:16 p.m.: infrastructure complaint, Air National Guard Bridge, East Main Street, a caller reports large potholes on the bridge, the responding officer reports he placed traffic cones in the potholes.
