Crime & Safety

Police: Profanity; Knife in Lawn

Excerpts from the Reading Police Department log.

Tuesday, July 21

At 12:28 a.m., there was a report of a suspicious man dressed all in black walking in the area of Sanborn Street.

At 8:20 a.m., a landscaping truck was reported blocking parking spaces on High Street.

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At 10:21 a.m., a woman reported that there was a man yelling profanities near her house on Locust Street.

At 6:43 p.m., a man found a knife sticking out of his lawn on Lowell Street.

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