Medford police arrested eight people between Monday, November 2 and Sunday, November 8, according to the department’s weekly arrest log. The most serious charges of the week were filed Tuesday against a 23-year-old Boston man: a drug violation near a school or park, possession of a large-capacity feeding device, a firearm-in-vehicle charge and possession of a Class D drug with intent to distribute. Three people were arrested on shoplifting charges at two of the city’s big retail addresses, the Target at 471 Salem Street and the Kohl’s at 3850 Mystic Valley Parkway, and four of the eight arrests involved outstanding warrants.
A charge is not a conviction. Everyone listed is presumed innocent unless and until found guilty in court. Names, ages, addresses and charges are as printed in the department’s log, which it marks “Public Information. Open for release and redistribution.” Times and locations come from the department’s daily dispatch logs for the same seven days, which print each arrest under the call that led to it.
Gun and drug charges
Gerar Alamo Diaz, 23, of 1 Gurney Street, Boston, was arrested on Tuesday, November 3 and charged with a drug violation near a school or park, possession of a large-capacity feeding device, a firearm-in-vehicle violation under Chapter 140, Section 131C, possession of a Class D drug with intent to distribute and a motor vehicle lights violation (incident 26020250). The lights charge indicates the case began with a traffic stop, but the arrest is not attached to any call in the dispatch log for that day, so the log does not show where or at what hour it happened.
Brian P. Barry, 40, of 12 Wedgemere Road, Medford, was arrested after a motor vehicle stop at Golden Court and Main Street logged at 1:39 a.m. on November 3. He was charged with possession of a Class A drug and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license (incident 26020188).
Those are the first drug and firearm charges in the Medford log in three weeks. Neither of the two prior weekly logs listed one.
Shoplifting arrests at Target and Kohl’s
- Richie Fortina, 19, of 102 Livermore Street, Mattapan, was arrested at the Target at 471 Salem Street on a call logged at 12:17 p.m. on Friday, November 6 and charged with shoplifting by concealing merchandise (incident 26020429).
- Pierre Michel F. Cazeau, 18, of 88 Maple Street, Malden, was arrested in the same incident and charged with shoplifting by concealing merchandise. He was also held on a warrant.
- James M. Weare, 45, of 50 West Walnut Park, Roxbury, was arrested at the Kohl’s at 3850 Mystic Valley Parkway on a shoplifting call logged at 1:41 p.m. on Saturday, November 7. He was charged with shoplifting by asportation, which means carrying merchandise away, and was held on a warrant (incident 26020498).
The two stores account for most of the retail theft traffic in the week’s dispatch logs. Dispatchers typed six calls as shoplifting between Monday and Sunday, five of them at Kohl’s, including two on Sunday alone, at 12:04 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., that ended with reports and no arrest. The sixth was at Target on Wednesday afternoon.
Warrant arrests
- Jayden K. Doly-Paul, 20, of 90 River Road, Somerville, was arrested on four warrants after officers answered a disturbance call at 218 Middlesex Avenue at 1:05 p.m. on November 3 (incident 26020218). The log lists no new charge.
- Ernest R. Myers, 42, of 13 Newbern Avenue, Medford, was arrested on a warrant on Sunday, November 8. The dispatch logs show officers went to the Newbern Avenue address to serve paperwork on Friday, on Saturday and at 3:49 p.m. on Sunday, each time with the disposition “no service,” before a fourth visit at 4:38 p.m. Sunday that ended with the arrest.
An arrest with no charge printed
Tyler D. Cruz Soto, 25, listed as homeless, was arrested on a call at 33 Prescott Street logged at 12:47 a.m. on Wednesday, November 4 (incident 26020252). The log prints no charge under his name and the dispatch entry gives none. We are reporting the entry as the department published it.
The week on the dispatch log: 513 calls
The daily dispatch logs for November 2 through 8 list 513 calls for service, from a high of 85 on Thursday to a low of 55 on Sunday. Medical calls were the largest group by far at 137, more than one in four. Officers logged 52 premises checks of schools, houses of worship and other buildings, 45 motor vehicle stops, 21 parking enforcement calls, 21 investigations of 911 calls, 18 alarms, 18 disturbance calls and 13 well-being checks.
Crashes made up the next largest share. Dispatchers logged 30 motor vehicle crashes during the week, five more reported after the fact, four hit-and-run calls and two crashes involving pedestrians. Both pedestrian calls came on Monday evening, November 2: one at 352 Main Street at 6:51 p.m. and one outside the Bertucci’s at 4054 Mystic Valley Parkway at 8:38 p.m. Each was closed with a crash report due, and the log gives no information about injuries. The intersection of Fellsway West and Salem Street appears three times for crashes, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and Auburn Street at Mystic Valley Parkway appears twice.
Other entries from the week:
- A fight was reported at the McGlynn School on Mystic Valley Parkway at 10:19 a.m. on Thursday, November 5. A report was taken.
- Vandalism was reported at Oak Grove Cemetery on Playstead Road at 9:53 a.m. on Friday and at the Riverside Yacht Club on Ship Avenue at 1:23 p.m. on Sunday.
- A gasoline call outside the Chevalier Theatre on Forest Street at 7:42 p.m. on Tuesday ended with a vehicle towed.
- Three identity fraud reports were taken within about two and a half hours on Friday afternoon, from Grant Avenue, Wolcott Street and Bradlee Road, after one at a Fellsway cellphone store on Wednesday.
- Car break-ins were reported on Linwood Street on Monday and at Station Landing on Tuesday night, and a larceny involving a motor vehicle was reported on North Street on Monday.
- Eleven vehicles were towed for trespassing from private lots, four of them at Station Landing.
A call type is the dispatcher’s label when the call comes in, not a finding. Many calls typed as disturbances or shoplifting end with “advised,” “gone on arrival” or “unfounded.”
How the two logs fit together
The weekly arrest log gives each person’s name, an incident number where one was assigned, the address of record, age, date of arrest and each charge with the chapter and section of the General Laws it falls under: Chapter 94C for drug offenses, Chapter 266, Section 30A for shoplifting, Chapter 90, Section 23 for driving with a suspended license. It does not say where or when in the day an arrest took place. The daily dispatch log fills that in. It lists every call with the time received, the location, the dispatcher’s call type, the disposition and the officer, and it reprints the arrest entry directly beneath the call. Matching the two is how this report places seven of the week’s eight arrests at an address and an hour.
A “warrant arrest” is not a new charge. It means a court had already issued a warrant, often for a missed court date, and officers served it. Two of this week’s four warrant arrests came with new shoplifting charges from the incident that brought police to the store.
The week in numbers
Eight arrests, compared with 14 in the prior week’s log and eight the week before that. Two of the eight listed Medford addresses; the others listed Boston, Mattapan, Roxbury, Malden and Somerville, and one was listed as homeless. Three were between 18 and 20 years old. Three arrests involved shoplifting, two involved drugs, one involved a firearm charge, and none was for operating under the influence.
The department posts weekly arrest logs and daily dispatch logs on its police logs page. This week’s arrest log is here.
