WESTFIELD
Major crime and incident report
Sunday, July 1, 2018
4:13 a.m.: vandalism, City View Boulevard near Hillside Road, a patrol officer reports 13 mailboxes have been vandalized as if by someone playing ‘mailbox baseball’;
10:52 a.m.: larceny, Home Depot, a caller from the store reports employees are in pursuit of a shoplifter, the responding officer reports he learned that the suspect entered the store and selected a pair of gloves and a tool kit valued at about $500, the man attempted to leave without making payment but an employee gave pursuit, the man was run down with the help of a bystander on East Main Street, Stephen W. Bragg, 43, of 113 Crestwood St., Chicopee, was arrested for shoplifting by asportation, a fourth offense;
2:52 p.m.: assault, Van Deusen Apartments, 42 Arnold St., a caller reports a known man “pulled a gun on her in his apartment” and she fled, the responding officer reports the resident said that the woman came to his home and asked to borrow money, the man said that as he was rummaging in his tool box he picked up a pellet gun and the woman panicked;
5:25 p.m.: found property, Orange Street, an officer reports he was able to identify the owner of a found wallet but was unable to immediately return it, the officer reports he will try again;
7:50 p.m.: assault, Springfield Road, the director of a youth band which stopped at a Springfield Road department store to buy supplies reports one of the youths was threatened by a man with a knife, the responding officer reports that the two large band buses happened to park next to a car occupied by Oregon residents who were making sandwiches when one of them objected to the proximity of the busses while holding a knife he had been using to make sandwiches, the officer reports that the man immediately put the knife away but exchanged heated words with one of the band members.
