Crime & Safety

Somerville Resident's Pride Flag Vandalized: Police

Home surveillance video showed a person taking the flag from a front lawn and returning it after it had been vandalized, police said.

SOMERVILLE, MA — A juvenile was arrested after a Somerville resident's Pride flag was vandalized June 1, police said.

Officers were called to a Puritan Road home around 9:30 a.m. and spoke to a witness, who showed them a video of the juvenile taking the flag from the front lawn, police said.

The flag was vandalized before it was returned, police said. Police did not specify the nature of the vandalism.

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