WAKEFIELD — A 47-year-old Salem man was arrested on several charges after he allegedly sold another man a bag of heroin not far from Wakefied Square.
Police said Juan A. Reynoso, 67 Palmer St., apartment 2, Salem, was arrested Friday, Nov. 21, around 2:20 p.m. following observations made by Detectives Chris Grace and Ken Silva and Patrolman Megan Leary.
Officers began watching a man who was on foot in the Square. He was talking on the phone and, in the eyes of police, acting suspiciously. They followed him to Yale Avenue, where the man was met by another man driving a black Ford Focus. The Ford pulled up alongside and the first man entered, exiting just about a minute later.
It was soon determined the man had bought a bag of heroin from the driver of the black Ford.
Police followed the car and were able to stop the driver, Reynoso, on the northbound ramp of Exit 40 at the head of Lake Quannapowitt. As police began talking to him, Reynoso turned his head away and refused to cooperate. Eventually, he became combative as well.
Traffic on Route 128 began to slow as motorists were curious about what was happening.
Reynoso was charged with distribution of a Class A drug, resisting arrest, assault and battery on a police officer and disorderly conduct.
He was scheduled to be arraigned today in Malden District Court.
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On Saturday around noon, police investigated a three-car, chain reaction accident in the 1000 block of Main Street in Greenwood. A citation was issued for distracted driving.
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Police were called to the head of Lake Quannapowitt Friday just before 8 a.m. after getting a call about a “traffic emergency” caused by construction vehicles impeding vehicles of rush hour commuters. Work is being done in preparation of a new Cumberland Farms at the old Lakeside Exxon site on Lowell Street.
One citation was issued. Other vehicles were moved.
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An abandoned, nearly 30-year-old computer was found at the Greenwood MBTA Depot Friday around 9:50 a.m.
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In two separate incidents Friday, police were told that people had fallen and had injured their noses. The first, on Friday around 10:25 a.m., involved a woman bleeding from the nose on Gregory Road. She was taken to Winchester Hospital.
The second call, at 10:36 a.m., involved someone who had fallen in front of a Main Street home and may have suffered a broken nose. That person was taken to Mass. General Hospital.
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At 10:39 a.m. Friday, a women told police she struck the new traffic island at the Main and Lowell streets intersection the day before and blew out one of her car tires.
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On Friday around 3:45 p.m. a concerned resident called police reporting an overdue school bus. At least three children, students at the Woodville School, allegedly were aboard the bus. Efforts to contact the school were unsuccessful, police said.
The bus did arrive at the stop about 30 minutes late because of construction and Friday afternoon traffic.
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A woman who left her 2012 Chrysler Town and Country minivan running on Oak Street reported that her keys were missing and the engine shut off when she returned around 4:25 p.m. Friday
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A 21-year-old Richard Avenue woman will be summonsed to court for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle after being stopped at the corner of Farm Street and Old Nahant Road Friday around 6:35 p.m.
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Police went to Auburn Street around 7:35 p.m. Friday after being told a man claiming he worked for Comcast first tried to enter the home and was now walking around the property.
Police determined the man was in fact a Comcast worker.
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Just before 8 p.m. Friday police sent a group of youths on its way after determining they were trespassing in an abandoned home on Mansion Road.
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Around 11:30 p.m. Friday police were told of a house party on Brewster Road involving guests walking around the neighborhood with alcoholic beverages.
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On Saturday, police:
• Went to Oakledge Road at 8:18 a.m. after a mother became concerned about her 2-year-old daughter. Emergency medical personnel checked the girl and it was determined she did not have to go to the hospital.
• Were told by a security guard at Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School around 4:30 p.m. that a fire was burning in the woods near the school.
• Notified firefighters of a possible chimney fire on Pine Hill Circle at 5:46 p.m.
• Fielded a call from a resident around 7:10 p.m. reporting a large bonfire in a backyard near the Water and Farm streets intersection. The caller expressed concern because of high winds. The call was forwarded to the Fire Department.
• Were told of an allegedly drunken man who got into his motor vehicle and began driving on Broadway around 7:53 p.m. Police said his car was located and was not occupied.
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On Sunday police were told that a man driving on North Avenue had pulled over and was dumping bags of trash in barrels at the curb around 10:50 a.m.
Police were told of several syringes found in a back lot of a Main Street property around noon Sunday.
Someone allegedly tried to “pull the face off of” a Main Street ATM sometime before 12:28 p.m. Sunday.
A Forest Street man was taken to Melrose-Wakefield Hospital around 5 p.m. Sunday after his wife reported he had fallen to the floor.
A jogger reported Sunday around 5:20 p.m. that he had been struck by a crayon thrown from a car near the intersection of Quannapowitt Parkway and Lowell Street.
