WESTFIELD
Emergency Response and Crime Report
Friday, Aug. 8, 2014
1:19 a.m.: motor vehicle violation, Main Street at Exchange Street, a patrol officer reports he observed a motorcycle operating at excessive speed and stopped it, the operator was found to have only a motorcycle permit and a criminal complaint for operating a motor vehicle without a license was filed, a licensed operator was allowed to take custody of the motorcycle;
2:15 a.m.: incapacitated person, Crown Street, a caller reports a male party on the ground may be intoxicated, the responding officer reports the unconscious man was found to be bleeding from a facial injury and was on the pavement behind a parked car with a bike and a fishing pole next to him, the officer was able to rouse the man who said that he had been drinking beer while fishing and doesn’t remember what happened after that, the officer reports that the man had ridden his bike directly into a parked car which was not damaged, the man was transported to Noble Hospital and the bicycle was transported to his residence;
4:40 a.m.: disturbance, Broadview Apartments, 33 Broad Street, a woman who came to the station with a swollen eye and a facial laceration reports she was assaulted by her boyfriend, the responding officer reports the woman said that when she asked her boyfriend to leave during an argument and he punched her eye before strangling her, the woman said that when she tried to call police the man took her cellphone and wallet and left, the woman said that when she decided it was safe to leave her apartment and drive to the police station she found that all four tires on her vehicle had been slashed so she drove to the station on four flat tires, the officer reports he sought the suspect at his home, Kevin J. Cowles, 35, of 139 Root Road, was arrested for attempted murder, assault and battery in a domestic relationship, unarmed robbery, intimidating a witness and malicious damage to a motor vehicle;
