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This arrest wasn't anything huge, but I listened to it on the scanner this afternoon and thought I'd write it up since it's pretty much exactly how police always tell me they hope these things will work out.

Superintendent Lavallee and other police commanders talk a lot about how much they need help from the community, and from people who keep an eye out for their neighbors, and that's how this one started.

An anonymous witness saw a guy smash a back window at 243 Westford Street tonight about 6, and called police as the guy tried to get inside the house.

Car 10 got there within a minute, got a description of the guy who fled and a direction of travel and within another minute or so Car 6, Officer Phil Conroy, grabbed a guy fitting the description on Queen Street.

Police investigated, got an ID on the guy, and Stephen Murphy, 58, who has no known address, ended up heading into the station charged with breaking and entering night.

Not the most exciting of cases, or the end of the world, but if more folks in the city kept their eyes peeled like this I bet the city would experience a lot less house breaks.

...and basketball hoop, and back stairs.

William Foley, 17, was in his house playing Call of Duty last night about 9 when he heard something a heck of a lot louder than the sound effects of the war game.

"I thought an 18-wheeler smashed into a house or something," he said.

Close.

As you can see above, it was actually a Jeep, and it had actually smashed into the basketball hoop in the driveway of Foley's house, and then the garage next to his house, and then the back stairs of his house.

Foley's mom had just left for work. Besides William, she has kids who are 20, 12, and 8, and a babysitter was at the house to keep an eye on the younger kids.

William and the babysitter ran outside just in time to see a whilte male dressed in black bolt down the street toward the swamp at the end of Melrose.

About 5 minutes later, Canine Officer Todd Donaldson found the guy pictured below in the swamp. He was arrested, but he hasn't been booked yet so I'll have to add his name to this entry later.

So far he is only charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Police say he matches the description of the person who fled the Jeep, but officers are still investigating to make sure that's the case.

By a guy police tell me sort of looked like a firefighter.

Halloween related? Who knows.

He didn't have any fire department logos or anything on his clothes, or a helmet, but police say Robert Levesque, 39, of 33 Fourth Ave., was wearing dress pants, a white shirt and a sweater, much like a deputy chief would when he was arrested Saturday night.

Police got a call that the Crown Victoria, formerly used by a deputy chief, was missing from the Fire Prevention Bureau at 93 Mammoth Road, about 9:30 p.m.

Before long firefighters spotted it nearby and followed it while police caught up.

The driver initially refused to stop for police, police said.

Officers finally got him stopped at Dracut Street and Sixth Avenue, according to police.

Levesque is charged with larceny of a motor vehicle, and will probably face charges for not pulling over right away too, police said.

It is unlikely he will face charges of trying to impersonate a firefighter, since he didn't drive the thing to a fire or anything quite that ridiculous.

It's worth noting that in 2005, Levesque was accused of stealing a car, breaking into a CVS in Tewksbury to steal pills, and then leading police on a 90 mph chase up I-93 and I-495 in the stolen car.

I can't find out tonight if he was ever convicted in that case, but it sounds like things could have turned out worse tonight.

Lowell Police was one of the agencies credited in the press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in connection with the terrorism-related arrest of a Sudbury man today, but have no fear, neither the man nor the plot had serious Lowell connections.

Lowell PD got the credit because one of the department's officers is a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which investigated the case.

Lowell Police caught up with a suspect in the bank robbery at Sovereign Bank last night at Motel 6 in Tewksbury.

I would have updated sooner but they hadn't charged him as of midnight when my shift ended.

Today Stanley Wood, 29, of 72 Cambridge St., Worcester, was charged with the robbery.

Still no arrests in the Tewksbury robbery at the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank in Stadium Plaza. Review the surveillance photos from that one by following the link above or scrolling down a bit.

Oh Shane Carney, we hardly knew ya.

In 1988, at the tender age of roughly 12, police tell me you pushed another young boy into the Pawtucket Canal near the Francis Gatehouse. That other boy drowned, and according to police you were convincted of murder.

Since you were so young, you were eventually released from custody.

And it was 2002 before you were arrested for assaulting a police officer, destroying property, making threats and disorderly conduct.

It was 2004 when you were arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon.

It was 2006 when you were once again arrested for assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, assaulting someone else, and disorderly conduct.

I'm not sure you were ever convicted after those arrests, so I won't assume you were guilty.

But on July 18, 2008, when a combination of city, state and federal agencies arrested you for selling a handgun and 84 rounds of ammunition to a cooperating federal witness, you really got yourself in some trouble.

You pled guilty in June to being a felon in possession of ammunition, and today you were sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.

We barely got a chance to enjoy your company here in Lowell.

Farewell, Shane Carney, 32, formerly of 549 Pine St.

I do my best to be fair to those who have not yet been convicted, since surely police arrest the innocent at least every once and a while, but you went and got yourself convicted.

The City Lowell, and all your associates in TRG - Gray will surely miss you.

There is no such thing as parole when it's federal prison that you call home.

So, after serving his country in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Afghanistan again, Army Reserve Master Sgt. John Rondeau has been living in West Sixth Street in Lowell for less than a year.

In that short time, his new pickup truck has twice been demolished by errant drivers while parked in front of his home near West Street, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

This is the damage done when it happened for the second time on Saturday, about 11:40 p.m.

This time was extra low, because police say the driver of the Chevy Tahoe, Renne Milinazzo, 38, of 132 Hampshire St., admitted to having a few beers, and was slurring her speech so badly she could barely finish sentences.

She had also tried to run from the scene, police said.

Rondeau told me his wife saw the driver take off, though, so he chased her down.

"This was the second time," he said. "I wasn't letting this one go."

Police found Rondeau and Milinazzo on West Street, nearby. Milinazzo complained of minor injuries so she was taken to Saints Medical Center instead of being booked.

She will be charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, and marked lanes violation.

Lets all slow down on West Sixth Street there for a while eh? I think Mr. Rondeau deserves better than a third wrecked truck for his service.