WESTFIELD
Major crime and incident report
Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018
10:40 a.m.: larceny, Castle Hill Road, a resident came to the station to report the theft of a credit card, the responding officer reports the victim said a family member stole her credit card and made purchases totaling about $3,000, the victim does not wish to pursue the issue further;
3:49 p.m.: larceny, Grandmothers Garden, Smith Avenue, a volunteer at the garden came to the station to report the theft of four folding chairs and pads valued at about $200, the responding officer reports the complainant said that she had set up the chairs for a wedding but when the wedding party arrived the chairs were found to have been stolen;
4:13 p.m.: larceny, Springfield Road, a caller from a Springfield Road department store reports a larceny, the responding officer reports a suspect was able to trick a clerk and left with merchandise valued at $889 which he did not pay for, a store employee reports the merchandise was returned at another of the chain’s stores and an employee there may be involved, the suspect is expected to be identified as a result of the investigation at the other store and is expected be charged locally then;
5:11 p.m.: fraud, West Silver Street, an elderly resident came to the station to report that she was the victim of a scam, the responding officer reports the woman said that a caller who purported to represent Microsoft said that her computer was in need of repair and she accepted his offer to fix it, the woman said she purchased $500 in Google gift cards to pay for the service and provided the caller with the redemption numbers, the woman said that the man subsequently called twice more to explain that the problem was more extensive than originally thought so she sent him additional payments in the amount of $1,000 and $2,000 via gift cards before she told her children what had happened, one of the banks involved reimbursed the woman for the first $500 loss.
