Crime & Safety
Police Booking Log: Laptop Thief Updates Victim's Facebook Status
The following information was supplied by the Somerville Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
Arrests made by the Somerville Police Department from Aug. 12 to Aug. 16. Please remember that the charges listed below do not indicate a conviction.
Larceny, theft and shoplifting
On Aug. 12, Jose Salamanca-Flores, 21, of 204 Pearl St., was arrested at 202 Pearl St. and charged with receiving stolen property. He was also arrested on warrants for defacing property and unarmed burglary. According to a police report, Salamanca-Flores is accused of having two stolen laptops. The two victims who owned the laptops noticed the computers were missing when their smart phones alerted them to strange Facebook status updates someone was making on their accounts, according to the report. They looked around for their laptops and soon realized the were stolen, the report says. Apparently the back door to their apartment was unlocked during the day. When an officer arrived in the area at around 10 p.m., he saw Salamanca-Flores and another male sitting on the front steps of 202 Pearl St. with laptops, and when the victim came outside, she told the officer Salamanca-Flores had her computer, according to the report. Salamanca-Flores told the officer someone else had given him the laptops, the report says. "He did me wrong," Salamanca-Flores said about that person, whom he described as a "klepto," according to the report. The officer allegedly responded by saying, "Knowing that, you still took the laptops." Salamanca-Flores allegedly said, "Yes."
On Aug. 13, Reinaldo Aviles, 46, Lidia Paniagua Nova, 44, and Natacha Moore, 34, all of Dorchester, were arrested at 75 Mystic Ave. and charged with shoplifting. Moore was also arrested on warrants for larceny and assault. The three are accused of shoplifting $594 worth of smoke detectors from Home Depot.
Driving without a license
On Aug. 16, Lisa Splaine, 48, of 28 High St., was arrested on Packard Avenue and charged with driving with a suspended license.
On Aug. 16, Yakouba Sawadogo, 22, of Roslindale, was arrested on McGrath Highway and charged with driving an uninsured motor vehicle, driving with a suspended license, attaching wrong motor vehicle plates and a number plate violation.
Warrant arrests
On Aug. 14, Stephen Remick, 53, was arrested at 4 College Ave. on a warrant for larceny.
On Aug. 14, Paul Therenciel, 50, of 17 Madison St., was arrested on Madison Street on warrants for witness intimidation, violating an abuse prevention order and threatening to commit crime.
On Aug. 14, Alfonso Lopez, 58, of Quincy, was arrested on Everett Street on a warrant for driving with a suspended license.
On Aug. 14, Robert Murphy, of 33 Minnesota Ave., was arrested at that address on warrants for driving with a suspended license and uttering a false check.
On Aug. 14, Fabio Almeida, 34, of 164 Broadway, was arrested on Broadway on warrants for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
On Aug. 15, Henry Flores, 23, of 20 Brook St., was arrested at that address on a warrant for violating a miscellaneous municipal ordinance.
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