Crime & Safety
Home Break-in Reported, Male Arrested After Being Detained by Macy's
Burlington Police Department logs for January 6 to 8.

Following are excerpts from the Burlington Police Department log. Note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account. We report all arrests included in the daily police log. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.
Monday, January 6-
- At 4:40 a.m. a Cambridge Street caller reported a noise complaint. It was an idling truck at L'andana with people working on it. They did not realize they were near a neighborhood.
- At 10:09 a.m. a Hess caller reported that a customer who didn't have money to pay for gas a couple days prior had not returned. The customer was an unidentified woman who was allowed to pump $15 worth of gas on the promise she would return later to pay the bill.
- At 11:55 a.m. a caller at Market Basket reported their vehicle was struck in a hit and run accident.
- At 3:10 p.m. a Terrace Hall Avenue caller reported that sometime within the past two weeks a boarded property currently under action may have been broken into. There was damage to a rear door and it appeared clothing and a flat screen television were missing.
- At 5:10 p.m. a caller reported an erratic driver in a beige Toyota on route 3A south.
- At 12:29 a.m. police placed a Burlington woman into protective custody after a caller reported a woman in the roadway on Stanwood Street.
- At 7:15 a.m. a Lantern Lane caller reported that someone put a box cutter in her vehicle overnight.
- At 8:46 a.m. a student at Burlington High School reported his iPad 2 was stolen from the boys locker room on November 19.
- At 10:09 a.m. Woburn Police reported they had stopped a box truck with empty beer kegs from Legal Seafoods. A manager of the restaurant said they had given permission to the driver to take broken rice cookers but not the kegs.
- At 11:24 a.m. a Mall Road caller reported the pat theft of laptops from a business IT department.
- At 3:28 p.m. police arrested Michael Alexis, 29, of 689 Metropolitan Avenue, Hyde Park, on a warrant from another agency. Arrest made after Macy's loss prevention reported detaining a male who gave them false identification.
- At 11:03 a.m. a Second Avenue caller reported nails in the roadway. Police checked the area but did not find anything.
- At 11:11 a.m. a caller at Memorial Elementary School reported a motor vehicle lockout with a 19 month old child inside. Police assisted with access.
- At 6:02 p.m. Sears loss prevention reported a theft on January 6. A female suspect stole over $250.
- At 8:49 p.m. there was a report of prostitution.
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