Weymouth Man Charged With Scaling Down Bridgewater Apartment Building To Escape Police

BRIDGEWATER, MA — A Weymouth man who thought he could use ascend down a building to evade police in Bridgewater was arrested last Sunday.

Justin R. Sullivan, 36, was charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and assault and battery on a police officer. He was arraigned the next day in Brockton District Court and ordered held on $500, according to the Enterprise.

Officers located Sullivan after a resident at Axis Apartments reported a suspicious man who was trying to gain entry into the building. After allegedly slipping past two kids leaving, he was located on the fifth floor, where a resident said her husband's friend Justin was on the balcony.

When officers found him, Sullivan allegedly asked if he could put his cigarette out before jumping the balcony and climbing down. At the bottom, he ran back into the building to flee police but was located in a stairwell. Sullivan allegedly ran to the third floor and back downstairs before he was taken into custody.

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