I got busy at the end of the night last night and forgot to link to my story about LPD arresting a guy for assaulting an officer.
This is the third time in less than a year that Jonathan Bik has been accused of assaulting a police officer.
Here is my previous entry on Bik's arrest back in July.
John Machado, 75, of Lowell, was arrested at Lowell District Court Tuesday morning after he got a bit agitated.
According to police reports, Machado was enraged that court officers insisted he take off his hat and empty his pockets before going through a metal detector as part of the routine security screening that everyone at the court has to go through.
As the court was opening for the day, Machado began yelling, swearing, and swinging his cane at court officers, creating a scene that prevented anyone else from getting into the building.
Several swings of the cane and a lot of bad words later, Machado was eventually arrested.
He is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (cane), disorderly conduct, assault, and assault and battery on a corrections officer.
Police couldn't tell me why Machado was at court to begin with.
I'm glad I'm not the one who has to inform him that he will be searched when he returns to the court for future hearings.
Not real sure what this guy was thinking.
Lt. Timothy Crowley stopped the guy pictured below on Willard Street for a traffic violation tonight about 9 p.m., and the guy sat there for several minutes while Crowley ran his information.
Then he took off.
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Crowley gave chase, and watched as a woman in the car who apparently wanted out hung halfway out the door as the driver continued driving.
Crowley and over a half dozen other cruisers finally got him stopped on Dutton Street at Market Street, which is where these photos were taken.
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Here's some video of him going into the wagon.
I'll grab his name and the charges when I get the nightly arrest report here at 10.
UPDATE: Jesus Figueroa, 38, of 10 Fenwick Terrace, unit 107, Lowell, is charged with failure to stop for police.
I'll be checking later to see if more charges are added.
Police arrested Jonathan Deleon, 27, of Lowell, almost immediately early this morning after they got a call for gunshots on Grand Street about 3:48 a.m.
Someone reported that a man had walked out of a party on Grand Street and fired several gunshots into the air once he got outside.
Officers found DeLeon walking up the street, and just a few feet away from him was a loaded .357 with several spent shell casings still in the gun, along with several loaded ones.
DeLeon was held this weekend on charges of discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and disorderly conduct.
Police also arrested two people from Lewiston, Maine Sunday morning after getting a tip that they had firearms in the trunk of their car. They were pulled over on the Hunts Falls Rotary about 11 a.m., and officers found three rifles, a shotgun and a box of ammunition in the car.
Neither Norman Johnson, 39, nor Cynthia Parent, 46, had a license for the guns, so both were charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
Johnson also had a warrant for a restraining order violation.
They too were held.
That's five guns off the streets in the course of about 7 hours.
Tonight detectives arrested a second man in connection with the Jan. 28 shooting of a 20-year-old Lowell man inside a Lakeview Avenue apartment.
The victim was found at Tedeschi Food Shop at 494 Bridge St., in Centralville, where he walked after being shot in the thigh.
Steven Cafeteiro, 21, of 349 Pawtucket St., Lowell, was arrested at his home tonight about 8:30 p.m.
Detectives had a warrant charging him with armed assault with intent to murder and home invasion.
Cafeteiro and David Simard, 20, of Lowell, are accused of forcing their way into an apartment on Lakeview Avenue and then shooting the 20-year-old in the thigh during a struggle. Court documents say Simard and Cafeteiro though the victim had robbed them.
After being shot, the victim locked himself in a closet until his attackers left, and then walked to Tedeschi.
Simard was arrested on the same charges early this month. He was initially held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing, but I'm not sure what happened at that hearing.
I've been way too busy to blog tonight since I'm covering this, a bad crash, and a story about the charter school in Lowell, so I'm just going to paste my story and stick a couple photos in it as I go.
All photos are by Tory Germann, which is why they're so great. I just cropped them a bit to make them fit here in the blog.
LOWELL -- Police surrounded a building in the Market Mills apartment complex downtown and called in a regional SWAT team yesterday morning after a man robbed a 73-year-old cab driver at gunpoint and then fled into the building.
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Police got a 911 call reporting the armed robbery at 9:27 a.m. The driver for Town Taxi told police he picked a man up at 256 Market St., drove him to the Camelot Court condominium complex on Pawtucket Boulevard, and then drove him back to 256 Market St.
Back downtown, the man, later identified as Shayne Sullivan, 20, of 256 Market St., Unit 118, paid the cab driver, but then put a gun to the driver's head, according to police.
"He put it right there," the shaken cab driver said as he pointed to his temple yesterday morning outside the building. "He was all ready to shoot me."
The cab driver said his name was Al, but did not give his last name.
This is the cab driver, who remained at the scene during the standoff.
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The driver said Sullivan got "only a few bucks" from him since it was early on a Sunday morning.
Police learned that Sullivan had fled into the building at 256 Market St., which is also home to the Brush Art Gallery and Studios and next door to the Visitor's Center for the Lowell National Historic Park.
Officers tracked Sullivan to a specific apartment in the building, but were told by a family member that Sullivan made threatening statements regarding police.
Sullivan was located in the bedroom of a unit in the building, but refused to open the door for police.
Police say Sullivan was already "well known" to them. Based on that history and the threatening statements he allegedly made, a SWAT team from the North East Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council was called in.
Officers with the SWAT team got into the bedroom and arrested Sullivan without further incident a little before 1 p.m.
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He was being held last night on charges of armed robbery and assault and battery on a person over 60.
Police said they also recovered a realistic-looking pellet gun.
Kathleen Marcin, president of the Lowell Downtown Neighborhood Association, said she first noticed police activity when she looked out her window in the morning.
She noticed police were still there when she looked out again about an hour later, but was not alarmed until she walked to Market Street to meet someone and saw even more police, and a SWAT team truck driving down the street.
"It was unnerving to see the SWAT team," Marcin said. "You think about the safety of all the people who are in that building."
Sullivan has a history with police. In April 2007, he was arrested in Lowell and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (handgun). In December of that year, he was among three men arrested in Waltham at a home where police found a loaded AK-47-style semiautomatic assault rifle, a Remington shotgun, two other rifles and ammunition, according to published reports.
In that incident, two men caught breaking into a home in Waltham told police they had earlier been robbed.
Sullivan was among three men who were charged with two counts of armed robbery and a single count of armed assault with intent to rob in connection with that case.
It was not clear last night whether that case was ever closed.
Staff Writer David Perry contributed to this report.
I just posted about domestic violence a few days ago, so this report struck me as especially egregious tonight.
Police got a call about 5 p.m., from a 19-year-old woman in downtown Lowell. She told officers she had a fight with her boyfriend earlier in the afternoon.
During the fight, police say Moises Rodriguez, 21, of Lowell, repeatedly punched the 19-year-old in the face.
Police say he then knocked her down, and kicked her directly in the stomach. She is two months pregnant.
Police say Rodriguez then removed the 19-year-old's shoe and hit her in the face with it. As officers took a police report, an imprint of the shoe's tread was still visible on the side of the woman's face. So was swelling around her eye.
Police say that after the beating stopped, Rodriguez got a knife and held a knife to the 19-year-old's throat while threatening to kill her.
Police say Rodriguez then took the 19-year-old's purse, and some of her clothing, and left.
Officers found him about 6:30 p.m., at 452 Merrimack St.
He was being held without bail Monday night, pending arraignment in Lowell District Court on charges of assault and battery on a pregnant person, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (shoe), assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (shod foot), assault with a dangerous weapon (knife), larceny from a person, and threatening to commit a crime (murder).
The 19-year-old was taken to a hospital. It sounds like the fetus will survive, but police couldn't release much more about her condition.
