Cambridge police recorded 146 incidents and 24 arrests between Monday, October 19 and Sunday, October 25, according to the department’s daily logs, which it posted on November 2. The most serious call came late Tuesday, when a victim on Windsor Street told police that several masked people pointed a gun at them and took their cell phone and keys. On Friday morning a victim on Mt. Auburn Street reported being threatened with a gun during an argument. Monday evening officers checked Jefferson Street after a report of gunshots and found no victims, witnesses or ballistic evidence.
A charge is not a conviction. Everyone named is presumed innocent unless and until found guilty in court. Names, ages and charges are as the department printed them.
Fraud and scams
- An Albany Street victim reported October 20 that suspects used their personal information to take more than $150,000 from banks.
- Two customers told police on October 20 that a Church Street business kept watches they had sent in for repair, one valued at $1,200 and one at $10,000.
- A Prospect Street resident reported October 22 that someone posing as their work supervisor convinced them to buy $3,000 in gift cards; a Lee Street resident lost $5,000 in a financial scam the same day; and on October 23 a Massachusetts Avenue caller reported an acquaintance had sent $3,000 in gift cards to an unknown person.
- A Putnam Gardens resident received a collections notice for $5,029.35 on a credit card they never had, and a Lansdowne Street resident received fraudulent checks in their name.
Crashes and hit and runs
Two pedestrians were hit by drivers who did not stop: at Bow and DeWolfe streets on October 20, where the victim said the driver failed to yield at the crosswalk, and at Howard Street and Western Avenue on October 22. Both reported minor injuries. Police logged six crashes involving cyclists, on Massachusetts Avenue (October 20, 21 and 25), twice on Mt. Auburn Street on October 24, where both cyclists went to the hospital and both drivers were cited, and on Aberdeen Avenue on October 25, plus a two-bicycle collision on Massachusetts Avenue on October 22 that sent one rider to the hospital. Moped riders were in crashes on Cambridge Street and at Massachusetts Avenue and Upland Road on October 21. At least 14 parked or moving vehicles were struck by drivers who left the scene.
Thefts
Thieves took a $10,000 GPS device from Jackson Place and $7,000 in construction tools from Follen Street on October 19, and about $1,500 in tools from Ivy Street on October 22. Bicycles and scooters went missing almost daily: two bikes worth $900 from a gated Pearl Street yard, a $924 bike from a locked station on Sidney Street, a $3,060 bike from a rack at Concord Avenue and Waterhouse Street, an $860 bike and two rented bikes on Massachusetts Avenue, a $1,200 bike from a Third Street garage, scooters worth $400, $700, $1,000 and $515 from Cambridge Street, Dunster Street, Porter Square and a Massachusetts Avenue lot, and mopeds from Main Street and Wheeler Street. A car was reported stolen from Broadway on October 20. Packages were taken from doorsteps on Gore Street, Normandy Avenue, Concord Avenue, Rindge Avenue and Willow Street.
Arrests
- Isaiah Joseph Sealey, 27, of Lexington, charged October 21 in Graffiti Alley with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
- Andrea Tinder, 38, of Brockton, charged October 23 on Massachusetts Avenue with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and affray; a Cambridge resident and a Stoughton resident were summonsed on assault and battery and affray charges from the same disturbance.
- Peter Mundowa, 39, of Fitchburg, arrested October 25 on Main Street on a warrant from East Boston District Court for failing to register as a sex offender and charged with shoplifting by concealing merchandise, third offense, removing a theft detection device and defacing property after a store reported more than $250 in stolen merchandise.
- John Hailey, 34, listed as unhoused, charged October 19 on Porter Road with receiving stolen property over $1,200.
- William Fields, 62, listed as unhoused, and Anthony Ramsey, 41, of Boston, charged with drug possession after officers saw them using drugs in Central Square on October 19; Benjamin Mubiro, 31, of Waltham, charged with possession of a Class B substance on Pleasant Street on October 25.
- Alexander Fortin, 28, of Fitchburg, charged October 19 with defacing property after destroying merchandise inside a CambridgeSide Place business.
- Shoplifting arrests: Alexander Fedele, 31, of Boston ($2 of merchandise, JFK Street); Christopher Reed, 40, of Cambridge (third offense, $63, Massachusetts Avenue); Junior Lopez Marte, 29, of Winthrop ($42, Somerville Avenue); Michael Coon, 32, of Cambridge ($41, Massachusetts Avenue); Derek Lydon, 45, listed as unhoused ($39, Massachusetts Avenue); Luis Sanjurjo, 38, of Boston (over $150, White Street).
- Donald Quinn, 48, of Roxbury, charged with trespassing on Green Street, and Pedro Greene, 52, of Cambridge, charged with drinking in public at Massachusetts and Western avenues.
- Warrant arrests: Kevin Hudson, 53, of Cambridge (four Cambridge District Court warrants); Francisco Xavier Virella Santiago, 36, of Somerville (West Roxbury); Dennis Carney, 45, listed as unhoused (two Cambridge warrants); Curtis Garret, 73, listed as unhoused (Quincy); Hector Nunez-Gonzales, 47, of Cambridge (two Cambridge warrants); Divon Goodman, 32, listed as unhoused (four Cambridge warrants); Krystal Scott, 44, of Malden (Middlesex Superior Court); James McKinnon, 47, of Cambridge (Boston).
Also in the logs
The Explosive Ordnance Unit inspected an unattended package on Main Street on October 20 and an unattended bag on Massachusetts Avenue on October 25; neither was hazardous. A Mt. Auburn Street business had its front glass broken by a group early October 25, and a Prospect Street resident reported a stranger inside their home that evening. A Walden Square Road resident reported a demand for $5,000, and a Sixth Street caller reported threats made to a business over social media. Shoplifting reports where no one was caught ranged from $6 to $635.53.
The department posts each day’s log, with incident numbers, on its news page; the week’s entries begin with October 19.
