Monday, November 26, 2012
Suspect nearly struck state troopers while running checkpoint.
A Somerville man faces a long list of charges after allegedly running a state police sobriety checkpoint in Lowell and then wrecking his car in downtown Chelmsford early Saturday morning. Thomas Leedberg, 25, is charged with OUI-liquor (2nd offense), assault with a dangerous weapon (a car), reckless operation of a motor vehicle, speeding and other motor vehicle violations, according to a state police spokesman. He is expected to be arraigned Monday in Lowell District Court. According to a state police report, the incident began around 1:25 a.m., when Leedberg approached a sobriety checkpoint on Thorndike Road. Leedberg allegedly slowed down and entered the checkpoint area, then abruptly picked up speed and fled the area. As he fled, he …
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
He also smashed into a car and ran over some bushes, a police report says.
A drunk driver smashed his Jeep into a cinder-block garage in West Somerville Friday night, destroying the building and the vehicle, according to a Somerville police report. The Jeep also plowed into a parked SUV, ran over bushes and clipped a house on its way into the garage, the report says. Police arrested Jason White, 30, of 94 Conwell Ave. in connection to the incident and charged him with operating under the influence of liquor, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of property damage. According to witness accounts in the report, White, driving a 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee, had driven home with a female friend and pulled into his driveway on Conwell Ave. The report says that after his friend got out of the car, …
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94 Conwell Ave, Somerville, MA
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
The April 2011 crash killed two 16-year-old girls
Kenneth Belew, 22, of Somerville, pleaded guilty in Middlesex Superior Court Wednesday to charges of motor vehicle homicide in connection to a 2011 McGrath Highway crash that killed two 16-year-old girls, according to an announcement from the Middlesex District Attorney's office. Belew was accused of crashing a car early in the morning on April 21, 2011, after attending a house party in Somerville where he had been drinking. Authorities said Belew had a blood alcohol level of 0.17, twice the legal limit, when he and five others left the party and decided to drive to a restaurant off McGrath Highway, the announcement says. On the way to the restaurant "he ran through a red light at a high rate of speed, reaching speeds up to 91 miles per …
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Police found empty nips on the passenger floor, and a concerned witness followed the car all the way from Wakefield, according to a police report.
An allegedly drunk driver, behind the wheel of a 1992 Plymouth Sundance, drove at least 12 miles on two interstate highways, "bounced off" the wall of Washington Street's McGrath Highway underpass, then came to a stop against a curb, according to an account from a police report. It's possible the driver was consuming nips during the journey, as police found several empty nip bottles on the passenger-side floor, according to the report. The man behind the wheel was driving so erratically that a concerned witness, who first noticed the car on Interstate 95 in Wakefield, decided to call state police and follow the car when it exited Interstate 93, the police report says. Once off the highway, the witness allegedly flagged down a Boston cop in…
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151 Washington St, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
The driver allegedly told police he lived in "Somerville" … "Right around the corner in Cambridge."
According to a police report, an officer responded to Alston St. in East Somerville at about 3:40 a.m. on Christmas Eve for reports of a disabled vehicle, and when the officer arrived he found a car in the middle of the road with its hazard lights on. It appeared no one was in the car, but when the officer approached, he noticed a male hunched over onto the passenger side with his eyes shut, and he was "snoring," the report says. The keys were in the ignition, and the car was running, according to the report. It took the officer five or six attempts to wake the man up, and when the man did wake up, he immediately put his hands on the wheel and tried to drive off, the report says. When asked for his license and registration, the man first …
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13 Alston St, Somerville, MA
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
The driver allegedly hit two cars near Porter Square, then fled to the Domino's parking lot in Davis Square, a police report says.
Shortly before midnight on Monday, Dec. 5, a police officer observed a dark-colored sedan with a missing front bumper, driving on a worn-down, tire-less wheel, pull into the parking lot of Domino's Pizza in Davis Square and park against a tree, according to a police report. Soon afterward, the Somerville police dispatcher broadcasted a BOLO—be on the look out—for a dark sedan that had just hit two cars on Holyoke Road, near Porter Square, before fleeing on Elm Street toward Davis Square, the police report says. Another officer arrived; they found the driver of the sedan in the front seat, and they asked him to step out of the car in order to speak with him, according to the report. The report says he smelled of liquor, struggled to stand…
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Domino's Pizza
201 Elm St, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The man, driving through Winter Hill, allegedly cut off an SUV then shouted profanities at the officer who pulled him over
An unlicensed driver sped past and cut off an SUV in Winter Hill, then yelled profanities at the police officer who pulled him over, falling, stumbling and swaying as he did so, according to a police report. The incident happened on Broadway at about 9 p.m. on Oct. 26. An officer in an unmarked car was observing traffic from McGrath Highway traveling westbound on Broadway through Winter Hill, according to a police report. The officer observed a 1995 green Toyota Camry speed past then cut off an SUV. The Camry was traveling at 48 miles per hour and accelerating in a 30-miles-per-hour zone, the report says. The officer flashed his lights, and the Camry's driver, after striking his rearview mirror, eventually pulled over in front of Winter …
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Winter Hill Liquor Mart
313 Broadway, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Police arrest a man and charged him with operating under the influence after allegedly finding him asleep at the wheel of his car.
The traffic lights at Washington Street and McGrath Highway are an interesting place to take a nap, especially at about 3 a.m. after a tropical storm knocked down trees and wires throughout the region. That's just what one man did early Monday morning, according to a police report. A police officer responded to the intersection of Washington and McGrath for reports of a man sleeping in a car, and he was directed by a cab driver to a car at the lights, its engine running, according to the report. In the driver's seat, a man was sleeping. The cab driver told the officer he had knocked on the window, but the man wouldn't wake up. The responding officer also knocked on the car window, and the man remained asleep, according to the report. The …
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McGrath Hwy & Washington St, Somerville, MA
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ikonoklast44
11:03 am on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Well duh. He didn't stop at the "sobriety" check point because he wasn't sober. more ›