Tuesday, May 3
At 3:17 p.m. an officer on patrol stopped to investigate a truck with flashers on parked in the roadway near Still River Road and Madigan Lane. The truck belonged to a landscaper, who agreed to move the vehicle. An officer on patrol at 7:23 p.m. stopped to investigate a truck parked behind the Transfer Station. It belonged to someone checking on a crew of workers there. Officers discovered the man had a gun in the vehicle and offered to hold it for safekeeping until he left the area. At 9:11 p.m. a cell-phone caller reported she was lost. Police determined she was in the vicinity of Westcott and Jacob Gates roads, but when they arrived to offer assistance, she was gone.
Wednesday, May 4
A Mass. Ave. resident called at 11:11 a.m. to report that someone in the household had been bitten by a cat. The incident was reported to the animal control officer.
Thursday, May 5
At 5:04 p.m. Mass. State Police notified the Harvard Police Dept. that state troopers and officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be interviewing someone at a Lancaster County Road residence. The ambulance transported a man to Emerson Hospital from a home on Old Littleton Road at 7:18 p.m. Fire officers responding to an alarm that came in at 9:19 p.m. from a home on Old Meadow Lane found it was set off by burned food.
Friday, May 6
At 2:26 a.m. a Tahanto Trail resident reported hearing gunshots in the area. Police checked the area but did not find anyone. An officer on patrol at 9:45 a.m. on Littleton Road saw a raccoon that appeared to have been hit by a car, and notified the animal control officer. A Department of Public Works employee reported at 10:43 a.m. that a bench at the McCurdy track had been tipped over. Police checked it out and determined that it had not been done maliciously, and asked the DPW to tip it back up. The ambulance took a woman to Nashoba Valley Medical Center from a St. John Lane residence at 3 p.m. At 10:05 p.m. a woman was reported missing from a Littleton County Road residence, but was later located by Littleton police in their town.
Saturday, May 7
Nothing of significance to report.
Sunday, May 8
Nothing of significance to report.
Monday, May 9
At 7:13 a.m. an officer on patrol noticed that a banner hung over Mass. Ave. was sitting too low and asked the dispatcher to contact someone from the Fire Department to adjust it. Someone from the DPW reported at 7:29 a.m. that a gas cap was missing from a truck at the DPW garage. A caller reported a minor two-car fender-bender in the library parking lot at 1:08 p.m. At 7:18 p.m. an Ayer Road resident called to report a past burglary. The case is under investigation. Two teens in a car parked at the Shaker Cemetery were asked by an officer on patrol to move on at 10:57 p.m.
