New Rash of Car Break-Ins Strikes Tewksbury Neighborhood

The following information was supplied by the Tewksbury Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Another rash of car break-ins has struck a Tewksbury neighborhood. And this time it appears the thief (or thieves) stole an entire car during their crime spree. According to information provided by the Tewksbury Police Department, residents reported at least nine vehicles at six separate addresses were broken into some time late Thursday night into early Friday morning. Five of those addresses were on either Heidenrich Drive, Wedgewood Road or Harold Place. Those three streets are located very close to each other off Rogers Street near North Billerica Road. A Wedgewood Road resident reported that one of the vehicles in their driveway was stolen and the other was broken into. There was also a resident reporting a vehicle break-in that night…

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Sarah

8:45 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013

I've always called it Edwards... hmm, that little map on the side of the webpage says Edwards too.   more ›

Three Residents Arrested For Assault; Car Breaks Investigated

The following information was supplied by the Tewksbury Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Three residents were arrested for assault and battery in separate incidents over the Thanksgiving Weekend. On Saturday, Nov. 24, a woman called police at 1 a.m. and said she'd received a call from the victim of an assault. Based on information provided by the caller, police went to an address on Trull Brook Lane. After an investigation, Michael Fitzpatrick, 43, 53 Trull Brook Lane, was arrested and charged with assault and battery. On Saturday, Nov. 24 at 1:10 a.m., police received a 911 call regarding a disturbance between a man and two women. Officers responded an, after an investigation, arrested Robert Tambone, 21, 31 Debra Drive, Tewksbury. He was charged with two counts of assault and battery. On Friday, Nov. 23, police received a …

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Alleged Drunk Driver Misses House by a Few Feet

Tracks indicate he drove over 200 feet after leaving the road.

A 49-year-old man faces drunk driving charges after allegedly losing control of his car on Andover Street and plowing across two lawns before coming to a stop about 10 feet from the bedroom wall of a home on Greenmeadow Drive. Melvin Berger of 6 Farmview Ave., Methuen, was allegedly driving his sports coupe westbound just after midnight Saturday, when police say he lost control of the car, crossed the yellow lines and the eastbound lane and went up over a knoll. Tracks left at the scene indicate Berger then drove through an area of landscaped shrubbery, ripped a small tree out of the ground, jumped the curb, crossed over Green Meadow Drive, went over the berm, between a set of guy wires and a telephone pole another 30 feet across the lawn…

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