WESTFIELD
Major crime and incident report
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
2:43 a.m.: burglar alarm, Little River Road, an alarm from a convenience store indicates a glass break, the responding officer reports an apparent break-in attempt, a vehicle which matched the description of one seen leaving the area was stopped by Agawam police at the address of a known person who was subsequently found near a convenience store which had been burglarized in a similar manner;
2:24 p.m.: found property, Whitaker Road, a person came to the station to surrender an iPad in a gray protective cover found on Whitaker Road, the tablet was stored for safe keeping;
6:47 p.m.: found property, Westfield Athenaeum, 6 Elm St., a person came to the station to surrender a ZTE Z981 cellphone found at the library, the phone was stored for safe keeping;
11:19 p.m.: fire, C&S Wholesale Grocers, 53 Medeiros Way, a caller reports a compressor fire, the responding firefighters report a motor was found to be burning and was extinguished with a dry chemical extinguisher, the smoke was vented, firefighters report no chemical leak resulted from the fire.
