Crime & Safety
Wannabe Wendy's Patron Walks to Drive Thru, is Denied Service, Calls Cops
In other unusual police news, a shortcut landed a woman in custody.

An emergency order.
. Why, do you ask? Not necessarily because he was vulgar: but because he was walking, not driving, up to the take-out window. Police believe the man was drunk and hungry. WHDH posted the audio of the 911 call, if you're interested.
There's no shortcut to success.
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A woman who was trying to evade police (she was wanted for skipping out on court dates and was carrying around a fake ID) earned the attention of a Westborough officer this week when she took a shortcut through a parking lot to avoid a red light. She was arrested when the officer looked up her information and found that not only was she refusing to identify herself, she was wanted in New Hampshire.
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Of course, his story wasn't initially that he was robbed of the drugs he was trying to sell: but police got to the bottom of it pretty quickly.
Surveillance video helps nab surveillance equipment thief.
helped lead cops to a man who is charged with stealing, among other things, surveillance equipment.
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