WESTFIELD
Emergency Response and Crime Report
Friday, June 20, 2014
12:08 a.m.: road rage disturbance, Little River Road at East Main Street, a caller reports two persons are fighting in the roadway, the responding officer reports that nobody was found at that location but he subsequently found two male parties engaged in an altercation at the intersection of Main and Noble streets, the officer reports that one party asserted that the other had passed his vehicle in a dangerous fashion and both operators had exited their vehicles at the next red traffic signal, one operator said that a verbal altercation quickly became physical when he was assaulted by the other man and was required to restrain the man until traffic began to back up and both returned to the vehicles and proceeded, the same scenario reportedly ensued at the next red light and the officer was told that at the third red light stop one operator carried an ice scraper into the fray requiring the other driver to take custody of the tool before the officer arrived, the allegedly offensive operator’s license was found to have been suspended, Matthew J. Hebert, 28, of 162 Russell Road, was arrested for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license and disorderly conduct;
12:19 a.m.: larceny, Springfield Road, a caller from a Springfield Road Department store reports a female party who had been observed shoplifting was leaving the parking lot in a described vehicle, the responding officer reports the vehicle was stopped and the operator denied stealing from the store, the officer observed a large handbag in the vehicle but the woman declined to allow him to inspect it, the officer consulted the store’s security employee who described the bag the woman had been seen to place merchandise in while she was in the store and the officer then inspected the bag which was found to contain store merchandise valued at $131, the merchandise was recovered and a criminal complaint was filed;
5:14 a.m.: vandalism, Westfield High School, 177 Montgomery Road, a caller reports vandalism to the lawn at the school, the responding officer reports that the lawn adjacent to Montgomery Road has been driven over leaving ruts in the grass;
11:25 a.m.: violation of an abuse prevention order, Edgewood Apartments, 134 Union St., a resident came to the station to report a violation of a protective order, the responding officer reports the complainant said that the defendant had violated the ‘No contact’ clause of the order by calling her phone, the officer noted that it was the second alleged violation, a warrant was issued;
12:47 p.m.: arrest, Main Street, two callers report separate attempts at armed robbery, see story in the Tuesday edition of The Westfield News;
5:04 p.m.: suspicious person, Powder Mill Village, 126 Union St., a caller reports a male party is passing out knives and an automatic BB gun to his friends in the park at the apartment complex, the responding officer reports a youth was found to be in possession of an air-soft gun and a homemade wooden knife, the weapons were seized;
5:14 p.m.: disturbance, North Elm Street, a caller reports a known person is assaulting his girlfriend and a second caller reported that her son observed a screaming woman attempt to exit a building via a second story window who was pulled back inside, the responding officer reports a resident said that her boyfriend struck her and broke her phone, the woman said that when she attempted to flee via a window the man dragged her back inside before leaving, the officer observed superficial injuries about the woman but she declined medial assistance, officers in the city and in surrounding communities were notified to be on the lookout for the suspect’s vehicle, the suspect was found and detained by West Springfield police, John P. Woodward, 47, of 387 Riverdale St., West Springfield, was arrested for assault and battery in a domestic relationship, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, intimidating a witness and vandalizing property;
8:05 p.m.: disturbance, Hampton Ponds, North Road, multiple callers report persons in kayaks are fighting and have overturned, the responding officer reports he was told that a fisherman in a kayak was approached by other boaters and an altercation developed in which oars were used as weapons and both participants ended up in the water, Richard Rovelli, 23, of 43 N. Main Street, South Hadley, was arrested for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery and vandalizing property;
9:12 p.m: disturbance, The Willows Apartments, 19 Lockhouse Road, a caller reports her boyfriend is intoxicated and will not leave, the responding officer reports the Pittsfield man was found to be obviously intoxicated and had no place to go, the man was placed in protective custody;
10:34 p.m.: found property, Washington Street, a patrol officer reports that a person handed him a found wallet while he was making an arrest but he was unable to speak with the person who found it, the desk officer reports that the owner of the wallet could not be immediately contacted and it was stored for safe keeping.
