Framingham Man Charged With Trespassing at SMOC Office

FRAMINGHAM, MA- A Framingham man is facing trespassing charges after he refused to leave the SMOC main office on Wednesday morning.

Police got a call around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday about a "undesirable person" on the second floor of the SMOC main office at 7 Bishop Street. SMOC employees told police they had asked the man, identified as Mark Lawless, to leave the area earlier that day.

Employees told police that Lawless briefly left but returned later that day through a back staircase. According to police, another employee found Lawless sleeping inside of the building and asked him to leave. Lawless responded by calling the woman an expletive and refused to leave according to police.

When police arrived they found Lawless on the second floor of the building and noted he appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, according to police. Officers were able to get him to slowly make his way towards the exit. Once officers got him outside they told him several times to leave and start walking away but Lawless wouldn't move, according to police.

Officers told him he could return another day but that he had to leave today and warned him that if he refused they would have to arrest him for trespassing. He still did not move and was placed under arrest.

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