Crime & Safety
Watertown Police Log: March 21 to March 27
Man arrested at MIT for drug possession, man arrested twice for domestic assaults and a man pays with a counterfeit bill.
Arrests
From The Tech, MIT’s campus newspaper:
March 17, 20 Albany St. (Albany Garage), 7:04 p.m., Report of suspicious persons on top floor stairwell. Arrested: Craig Curley, of 94 Summer St. in Watertown, and Lisa Hal, of 240 Albany St. in Cambridge, on charges of trespassing and possession of a class A (heroin).
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Watertown Police Log:
On March 21 at 11:36 p.m., Watertown Police stopped a red Honda on Prospect Street with two men inside, said Watertown Police Lt. Michael Lawn. Police identified one as Danny Duarte, 20, of 7 Towley Road in Watertown, who was found to have a warrant for his arrest. He was arrested on the warrant from Brookline District Court for knowingly receiving stolen property.
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Police responded to a call for a disturbance on Boylston Street on March 23 at 5:33 p.m., Lawn said. Officers arrested David C. Gaudet, 33, of 263 Boylston St. in Watertown, on a charge of domestic assault and battery.
An officer pulled over a vehicle on Mt. Auburn Street for running a red light on March 24 at 7:49 p.m., Lawn said. Peter F. Pierre, 63, of 55 Waverley Ave. Apt. 811 in Watertown, was arrested on a charge of driving with a suspended license.
An office running radar on North Beacon Street, on March 25 at 12:54 p.m., spotted a drive cutting into the bike lane without signaling, Lawn said. The officer found the driver had a suspended license. Chris Corcoran, 30, of 7 Bennett St. in Warwick, R.I., was arrested on charges of driving with a suspended license, marked lanes violation and an equipment violation.
On March 26 at 8:56 a.m., police went to Boylston Street for a reported violation of a restraining order, Lawn said. David C. Gaudet, Garudent, 33, of 263 Boylston St. in Watertown, reportedly broke into a home of someone who had a restraining order on him, and also tried to call the person twice, Lawn said. Gaudet was arrested on charges of breaking and entering, and three counts of violating a restraining order.
Incidents
Police were called to the Danish Pastry House on Arlington Street for a reported case of vandalism on March 21 at 1:52 p.m., Lawn said. Footage taken by a security camera on March 20 caught three men walking on Calvin Road toward the shop, and then toward a 2004 Chevy work van. They then proceeded to slash the front right tire. Police are investigating.
On March 22, police were called to 100 Talcott Ave. for a report of a vehicle break in, Lawn said. On March 21 sometime between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. somebody broke into a 2001 Honda Accord and stole a Garmin GPS device.
A Watertown High School student went to the School Resource Officer on March 24 at 7:24 a.m. to tell him about a vandalism incident, Lawn said. The student had been working at the Arsenal Mall on March 21 between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. and when she returned to her car, she found somebody had cut two, foot-long cuts to the soft convertible top of her 1999 Volkswagen Cabrio.
On March 24 at 2:05 p.m. a Watertown High School student reported that his iPod was missing. The student told the officer that two days earlier someone stole an iPod out of his backpack.
A clerk at Belmont Auto Service became suspicious when a customer took off quickly after paying for gas with a $20 bill, Lawn said. Because he was suspicious, he checked the bill with a counterfeit detecting pen and found it was a fake. The man who gave him the bill was driving a gray Toyota Corolla. The clerk got the license plate, and police are investigating.
A Marshall Street resident discovered that someone had thrown a rock through the window of her front door, Lawn said. The incident was reported on March 24 at 11:28 p.m.
A resident came to the Police Station on March 25 at 2:32 p.m. to report that her 2005 Subaru Forester had been keyed, Lawn said. It was scratched on the driver-side front fender and driver-side rear door sometime overnight on March 24 to 25, while parked in her driveway on Grandview Avenue.
On March 25 at 8:34 p.m., a woman reported that her purse had been stolen, Lawn said. She has returned home around 6 p.m. that night and left her purse on a wall next to her drive way as she was unloading items from her car. When she returned she found her purse was gone, containing credit cards, a checkbook, keys and two cell phones.
Someone fired a BB gun at the back door of the Citizens Bank location on Mt. Auburn St., Lawn said. The incident was reported March 26 at 8:53 pm
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