Tuesday, Nov. 5
A Bowers Road resident called at 6:55 p.m. to report that a brown and white Siamese cat was missing. The dispatcher notified Animal Control Officer Paul Willard.
Wednesday, Nov. 6
At 2:45 a.m. a caller reported a disabled vehicle in the middle of Eldridge Road. The car, which belonged to a resident of Foxboro, had a bad battery, was out of gas, and had to be towed. Responding to a 12:02 p.m. 911 call, the ambulance transported a male patient from Acton Medical on Ayer Road to Emerson Hospital. At 3:53 p.m., in response to a second 911 call, the ambulance transported a Glenview Drive resident to Emerson Hospital. A banner hanging across Massachusetts Avenue at the entrance to the Bromfield School was taken down by the fire department at 6:27 p.m. For several days it displayed two messages, one stating that a Special Town Meeting would be held Nov. 5 and the second announcing a Special Election on the same day. One of the two was correct. At 8:03 p.m. a Babbitt Lane resident reported seeing a Peeping Tom outside her window. The woman said that on hearing her dog barking and a rustling sound, she turned off her lights and was able to see that a man near a swing set on her property was watching her. She described him as being in his mid-twenties, dressed entirely in black, except for tennis shoes, which were white. When her husband gave chase, the man disappeared. Police, who weren’t called until a half-hour after the incident, were unable to locate a suspect.
Thursday, Nov. 7
While driving on Route 2 to a firearms class at 7 a.m., Officer Charles Genetti narrowly missed being struck by a large truck tire as it came flying across the median strip from the eastbound side of the highway near the Harvard exits. The tire landed on the car in front of the officer, which immediately pulled off the road. The Harvard ambulance was called, but the female driver of the damaged vehicle refused treatment. State Police are investigating. A woman called 911 at 2:29 p.m. to complain that as she was turning around at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Bolton Road, a second car had sped around her and the driver, also a woman, had “flipped her off.” Police located and spoke to both drivers, who are residents of Harvard, but no charges were filed and the driver of the first car declined to pursue the matter. At 3:35 p.m. a Stow Road resident called to report a verbal fight between herself and her mother, who had left the house. Because the caller was under the age of 18, police notified the state Department of Children and Families. After narrowly avoiding a collision with a vehicle that failed to stop at an intersection on Massachusetts Ave., an officer pulled the car over at 6:29 p.m. and issued a citation to the female driver. At 7:19 p.m. a Candleberry Lane resident requested medical help. A female was transported from there to Emerson Hospital. A driver called about 9 p.m. to report striking and killing a deer. A second car had also struck the animal, but had left the scene before an officer arrived. The animal control officer was notified.
Friday, Nov. 8
A school employee brought a New Hampshire license plate that had been found in the parking lot at Bromfield House to the station at 6:19 a.m. Police have contacted the owner. At 11:00 a.m. police investigated a 911 call that had originated at a Tahanto Trail residence. When police called the number, it was answered by a woman who said she was living in India. No further information was available. A man called at 11:15 a.m. to report finding strips of paper bearing racial and anti-Semitic remarks at the side of Ann Lees Road. Police retrieved the materials and destroyed them.
Saturday, Nov. 9
A female who had fallen and injured her knee at Dunkin’ Donuts on Ayer Road, was transported by ambulance to Nashoba Valley Medical Center. The 911 call was received at 9:47 a.m. A woman living on Old Shirley Road called at 5:20 p.m. to report that a strange dog had followed her home. The dog belonged to a Depot Road resident and had managed to get through an electronic fence. Police left a phone message for the owner, but he never called back.
Sunday, Nov. 10
A woman living on Slough Road accidentally set off a panic alarm in her house at 4:30 a.m. An officer responded and determined that everything was OK. At 11:36 a.m., a female resident of Myrick Lane called the station to report that a motorcycle registration plate had been taken from her garage. The plate number is IA8685 and has been reported by the police to NCIC (the National Crime Information Center).
Monday, Nov. 11
An officer stopped a speeding car near St. Benedict’s Abbey on Still River Road at 6:23 a.m. The driver was issued a citation for traveling 50 miles per hour in a 35 miles per hour zone. At 6:38 a.m. the police and ambulance responded to a 911 report of an accident on Littleton County Road. A female driver, reaching for a winter hat in the back seat of her car, had sideswiped a tree, swerved left across the roadway, and driven onto a stone wall. The woman was transported with injuries to Emerson. She was cited for failing to keep to the right and for speeding. The car was towed. A member of the Koko FitClub on Ayer Road brought a wallet found there to the station at 5:47 p.m. Police notified the owner, a Littleton resident, who retrieved it.
