WESTFIELD
Emergency Response and Crime Report
Friday, March 21, 2014
10:35 a.m.: larceny, Notre Dame Apartments, 27 Collins St., a health care worker reports that her patient’s narcotic medication is missing, the responding officer reports the nurse said that she is part of a team providing 24-hour care for a patient who feels sorry for a homeless acquaintance and allows him to visit, the nurse said that her patient is often lethargic and sleepy and cannot supervise his visitor who sometimes hides in a closet to avoid the staff, the woman said that about half of the patient’s supply of a morphine preparation, which is kept in a not completely secure locked plastic box, has been found to be missing and the complainant said that her patient’s visitor may be responsible;
3:43 p.m.: found property, Westfield City Hall, 59 Court Street, a resident came to the station to surrender a cellphone found in the City Hall parking lot, the responding office reports the owner of the phone could not be immediately contacted and it was stored for safekeeping;
4:02 p.m.: fire, East Main Street, a pull station alarm prompted the dispatcher to call an East Main Street home improvement store and was told there was an active fire in the garden department, the responding deputy fire chief reports there was no fire but an accidental activation of a fire alarm by a contractor working in the store;
9:27 p.m.: vandalism, Bennett Road, a caller reports his mailbox was blown up with fireworks, the caller said there are still fireworks in the mailbox and there is large bag of feces next to it, two other callers reported hearing loud noises or gunshots and one described a person who he said ran into woods, the responding officer reports he encountered two young men one of whom fit the caller’s description, the officer reports both reported hearing noises but denied knowledge of the vandalism, the officer reports after further questioning the younger boy took responsibility for the incident and was advised to clean the mailbox, the boy used the sleeve of the jacket to clean the mailbox and put the bag of excrement in his pocket, the officer returned the 14-year-old boy to his home and advised his parents of the incident;
11:11 p.m.: disturbance, North Elm Street, a caller reports she was driving near the intersection of Franklin and Elm streets when the defendant of a protective order jumped into her car, the responding officer reports when he found the vehicle the passenger said that his girlfriend had called him to ask his location and said she would pick him up, both said that after the man got into the car an argument developed and the woman called police, the officer reports that the man was provided a courtesy transport to a convenience store, no charges were filed.
