Published in the August 24, 2017 edition.
WAKEFIELD — Police are advising local businesses and residents about an apparent scam where a telephone caller claims to be selling promotional items to benefit Wakefield Memorial High School sports.
Police said that a local real estate agent received a call just before 10 a.m. yesterday from someone claiming to be selling items like t-shirts, concession cups and mini-basketballs to benefit WMHS sports teams and events. The caller claimed to be from an outfit called “Boost Sports.” The real estate agent thought the solicitation sounded suspicious and asked the caller to send an email. The agent later received an email listing promotional items available. The real estate agent then called the High School and was told that they are not currently affiliated with any such effort.
Police are attempting to locate and identify the phone solicitor.
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At 8:15 a.m. yesterday, a caller reported an open manhole at Main and Lowell streets. The DPW responded.
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At about 5 p.m., a woman called police and said that she was bitten by a dog while running around the Lake. The woman said that she was running south on Main Street in the area of White Avenue when she passed a woman who was walking a dog on a leash. The runner said that the dog jumped on her and bit her left hip. Police said that the woman did have a wound.
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Also at around 5 p.m., a caller reported two men on the ground fighting at the corner of Main Street and Yale Avenue. The men told police that they were just “fooling around.”
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Just before 6 p.m. yesterday, a caller reported that a man was riding his bicycle erratically in the area of Main and Avon streets and hitting car side view mirrors and spitting on cars. Police located that man and spoke to him. There was no apparent damage done, police said.
But police later took the same man into protective custody after an employee of Sabatino’s restaurant on Main Street asked to have a man who appeared intoxicated removed from the premises. Police said they were called to the area of Sabatino’s at about 6:30 p.m. Arriving officers found the 32-year-old man who appeared to be heavily intoxicated on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant attempting to get on a bicycle. When they attempted to place the man into protective custody, he became belligerent and would not get into the cruiser, police said.They were finally able to calm the man down and get him in the cruiser, but he continued to be belligerent at the police station, according to police. Police said that the man had not been drinking at Sabatino’s.
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Police, Fire and Action Ambulance responded to the parking garage at the Every Apartments at 14 Audubon Rd. at about 7:30 p.m. for a possible drug overdose after a caller reported a man slumped over the wheel of a car parked in the garage. Arriving EMTs from the Fire department and Action began CPR on the 42-year-old man. It was unknown if Narcan was administered. The man was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
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At about 7:30 last night a caller reported a past hit an run on Vernon Street. The man said that his 2009 Dodge 1500 was parked on the street and hit by an unknown vehicle that continued north on Vernon Street. The victim vehicle had black scratches, police said, and the suspect vehicle would have damage to the passenger side.
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The Fire Department responded to nine calls yesterday, including seven for medical aid.
