WESTFIELD
Emergency Response and Crime Report
Monday, June 16, 2014
9:10 a.m.: assist other agency, Feeding Hills Road, a Department of Youth Services worker requests assistance executing an outstanding warrant, the responding officer reports Lilliya G. Salem, 33, of 29 Sutton Place, Agawam, was arrested on the warrant;
9:26 a.m.: identity fraud, a resident reports via the online reporting option that he was defrauded, the man wrote that his phone service was compromised so that calls were forwarded to another number and, when merchants queried fraudulent use of his credit card, the calls were thus diverted to somebody who approved the charges, the complainant reports about $16,000 was fraudulently charged to his credit card;
10:12 a.m.: arrest, Main Street, a detective reports an off-duty officer advised him that the subject of outstanding warrants was seen boarding a bus, the detective reports Joseph E. LaPlante, 30, of no fixed address in Westfield, was arrested on seven warrants issued by the Westfield, Holyoke and Westborough district courts in 2013 and 2014;
4:08 p.m.: motor vehicle violation, Franklin Street, a patrol officer reports a motorist, Louis H. Calabrese, 53, of 603 Cooper St., Agawam, was arrested for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, his vehicle was towed to the police impound yard;
5:51 p.m.: larceny, Rachael Terrace, a resident came to the station to report the theft of his motorcycle’s registration plate, the responding officer reports the complainant said he does not know when or where the plate was stolen;
6:08 p.m.: disturbance, Main Street, a caller reports he observed a male party grab the head of a female party and throw her to the ground, the responding officer reports that the woman was found but said that she had been assaulted by a man who was not there, the woman said that the man had thrown a rock and then a lit cigarette at her, had pulled her to the ground and tried to hold her down and had tried to take her cellphone, the officer reports the woman spoke with the suspect by phone and learned his was in the Union Street area, the suspect was found there, Earl M. Bunnell, 55, of 101 Abbott St., Springfield, was arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery in a domestic relationship and unarmed robbery;
7:40 p.m.: disturbance, Washington Street, a caller reports she has barricaded herself in a bathroom because her boyfriend punched and kicked her, the responding officer reports that during an altercation her live-in boyfriend grabbed her head and kicked and punched her, the officer noted minor injuries consistent with her account, Brian M. Alger, 27, of 28 Washington St., was arrested for assault and battery in a domestic relationship;
8:07 p.m.: traffic complaint, Dry Bridge Road at Holyoke Road, a caller reports a tree branch is hanging over the roadway at windshield height, the responding officer reports the limb is too big for him to move, the DPW was advised that action is needed ASAP as the branch is impeding traffic;
9:43 p.m.: annoying phone calls, King Place, a resident came to the station to reports a known woman has threatened to kill her, the responding officer reports the suspect was not immediately positively identified.
