Crime & Safety
Rapscallions Flip Over Car, Party in Woods, Go Egging; Man Chainsaws at Midnight
The following are excerpts from the Reading police log. An arrest or charge does not indicate a conviction.
Friday, June 27
- At 12:25 a.m., police responded to a husband and wife arguing, Main Street
- At 1:43 a.m., police responded to a report of harassing phone calls, Buckskin Drive
- At 2:10 a.m., a resident reported four suspicious looking men walking in the Old South Church area
- At 5:56 a.m., police responded to a call about a loose small black lab on Cherry Lane Drive
- At 8:26 a.m., police responded to a report that a rock was thrown through a window of a red Acura on Oak Street
- At 10:42 a.m., a man reported receiving strange calls, Ridge Road
- At 11:13 a.m., residents reported a sick raccoon in a yard on Libby Ave.
- At 2:02 p.m., police responded to a call about a dog locked in a red Dodge Caravan in the McDonald's parking lot. The car's windows were up.
- At 2:27 p.m., police responded to a call that reported that a car full of youths didn't stop at a stop sign
- At 5:02 p.m., police responded to a call about a sick raccoon in the area of Libby Ave.
- At 6:51 p.m., police responded to two youths in the woods with a bonfire, Grove Street
- At 7:39 p.m., police responded to a call about a baseball game being played on the soccer field, Pearl Street
- At 9:55 p.m., police responded to an ongoing problem of youths going in and out of the forest, Grove Street
- At 10:35 p.m., police responded to a call of an outside fire, Franklin Street
- At 10:39 p.m., police responded to a call about youths throwing eggs from a red Dodge Neon, Main Street and Forest Street
- At 10:43 p.m., youths flipped over a 1965 fiat 500 in a driveway on Sanborn Lane
- At 11:59 p.m., residents on Dustin Road called to complain about a neighbor cutting down a tree with a chainsaw
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