WESTFIELD
Emergency Response and Crime Report
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014
9:50 a.m.: assist other agency, Laro Road, a caller from the Department of Public Works requests an officer to assist as workers fill there potholes, services rendered;
3:13 p.m.: found property, East Main Street, a caller from an East Main Street coffee shop reports a customer apparently abandoned property, the responding officer reports a worker said that a customer left the shop abruptly and did not take two duffle bags and a laptop computer he had with him, the man had not returned for his property for hours, the officer reports an attempt to contact the owner of the property was not immediately successful and the property was stored for safekeeping;
7:31 p.m.: assist motorist, Summit Lock Road at Root Road, a patrol officer requests a tow to assist a loaded tractor trailer truck which is hung up on a snow bank, a local tow company dispatched a truck which was unable to assist the trucker and a heavy duty tow truck was dispatched from Springfield and the tractor trailer was freed, the road constriction was cleared at 9:39 p.m.;
9:41 p.m.: larceny, Westfield Middle School South, 30 W. Silver St., a caller reports his daughter’s smartphone was stolen while she was at the school, the responding detective reports the phone was recovered;
11:53 p.m.: liquor law violation, Thomas Street a community policing officer reports he encountered a youth walking on a Thomas Street sidewalk carrying a bottle of rum, the officer reports he spoke with the young man and advised him of the city’s ordinances which pertain to persons younger than the legal drinking age who are in possession of liquor in public, the rum bottle was emptied and a city ordinance violation citation was issued.
