Crime & Safety

Cambridge Man Arrested After Police Break Up Party

The man would not leave quietly, and yelled and swore at police when they tried to quiet a party on Pierce Road.

 

When Watertown Police tried to quiet a party on Pierce Road, one man would not keep quiet and was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.

On Sunday at 12:13 a.m. police were called to the area on a report of a loud party, said Watertown Police Lt. Michael Lawn.

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"When officers arrived they found loud music and people yelling," Lawn said. "When they knocked on the door they heard people yelling 'It's the cops!' and 'Hide!'"

Officers asked people at the party to quiet down, Lawn said, but one man continued to yell at police. The man, identified as Jekeenin D. Patterson-Hollis of Cambridge, did not live at the home, and was asked to leave.

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"They went outside and he continued to yell obscenities at police," Lawn said. "He was arrested for disturbing the peace and when officers approached him he began flailing and resisted arrest."

Patterson-Hollis, 20, of 71 Oxford Ave. Apt. 3 in Cambridge, was arrest on charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.

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