The Hopkinton Police Department will accept unused medication (no liquids) and used needles in the station lobby (74 Main St.) on Aug. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The department will properly dispose of the items. According to a press release from the department, this...
Hopkinton was awarded a $350,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Assistance to Firefighters program, the town announced Monday. The money, awarded jointly to the Hopkinton and Ashland Fire Departments, will be used to replace obsolete portable...
Editor's note: This story has been updated with the identity of the deceased. A crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Hopkinton on Sunday afternoon killed a pedestrian, the State Police reported. The incident occurred shortly after 3 p.m. on an eastbound travel lane,...
POLICE LOG July 28 7:39 a.m. A caller reported a fallen tree on wires on Spring Street. Officer Brian Sanchioni responded and notified Eversource. 9:36 a.m. Officer Ryan Polselli assisted a disabled motor vehicle on East Main Street. 10:57 a.m. A motorist reported...
ARRESTS July 21 8:09 a.m. A caller reported a vehicle off the roadway of Lumber Street, and the occupants were out walking and talking. Sergeants Matthew McNeil and Aaron Neil and Officer Philip Powers responded and performed field sobriety tests and subsequently...
The Hopkinton Police Department announced that boat patrols of Lake Maspenock and Lake Whitehall have resumed after a "long hiatus." https://twitter.com/Hopkintonpolice/status/1286373199358447619?s=20 According to an HPD tweet from Thursday, "Officers from HPD have...
POLICE LOG July 14 1:43 a.m. Officer Jessica Ferreira checked on a Ryder truck on East Main Street and found the driver making a delivery. All was OK. 4:30 p.m. A caller reported a motor vehicle struck a mailbox and flower bed on Wood Street. Sergeant Matthew McNeil...
ARRESTS July 10 9:01 p.m. Sergeant Aaron O’Neil and Officers Robert Ekross and Benjamin Stickney conducted a motor vehicle stop on Main Street and subsequently arrested Sarah R. DeFonzo, 27, of 23 Summer St., Hudson, and charged her with OUI liquor and failure to...
ARRESTS July 2 12:05 a.m. A caller reported a vehicle nearly hit several mailboxes on West Main Street. Sergeant Arthur Schofield and Officers Jessica Ferreira and Tyler Brabham responded and located the operator. Julie C. Steinkrauss, 46, of 5 Rae Ave., Needham, was...
POLICE LOG June 23 12:19 a.m. Officer Brian Sanchioni discovered a stop sign vandalized with graffiti on Proctor Street and Saddle Hill Road. 1:36 a.m. An East Main Street caller reported his neighbor’s dog had been barking for hours and sounded like it was in...
POLICE LOG June 16 6:26 a.m. A caller reported a motor vehicle accident on Wood Street. Officer Brendon Lyver responded. No personal injuries were reported. A tow truck was requested. 11:39 a.m. Officer Jay Deiana took a report of a hit and run motor vehicle accident...
ARRESTS June 13 2:16 a.m. Sergeant Arthur Schofield and Officers Stephen Buckley and Robert Ekross conducted a motor vehicle check on West Main Street and subsequently conducted field sobriety tests on an individual. Jose Antonio Loja-Paguay, 27, of 69 Harvard St.,...
June 2 7:04 a.m. A Winter Street caller complained of a loud generator on all night that stopped about 30 minutes earlier. He wanted the incident logged. 11:06 a.m. Sergeant Timothy Brennan and Officers Philip Powers and Matthew Santoro completed community relations...
Joseph Bennett, who recently was promoted to chief of the Hopkinton Police Department, released a statement Thursday on the racial unrest and protests that have occurred across the nation. Below is the statement in full: Yesterday, I was extremely humbled to pick up...
May 26 12:30 a.m. Officer Stephen Buckley checked on a person on School Street who was out for a walk. All was OK. 8:37 a.m. Sergeant Timothy Brennan assisted an East Main Street business with the unloading of a piece of equipment. 9:10 a.m. A caller reported someone...
May 19 10:43 a.m. Officers Benjamin Stickney, Ryan Polselli, Philip Powers and Moira McGaffigan completed community policing on Jamie Lane. 11:48 a.m. The Milford Police Department reported a lot of smoke coming from an area near the Milford/Hopkinton town lines. 3:15...
POLICE LOG May 11 7:52 a.m. A caller reported a landscaping truck ran over a curb on Chestnut Street and wanted the incident logged. 9:57 a.m. A Lakeshore Drive caller requested assistance with obtaining a restraining order. Officer Matthew Santoro assisted. 10:30...
POLICE LOG May 4 9:56 a.m. Sergeant Matthew McNeil and Officers Ryan Polselli and Matthew Santoro completed community policing on Elizabeth Road. 4:27 p.m. The Westborough Police Department transferred a call about four teenagers in a black topless Jeep who threw...
POLICE LOG April 28 6:50 a.m. A Wedgewood Road caller reported damage to his stone wall from a possible hit-and-run motor vehicle accident. The caller wanted the incident logged. 4:29 p.m. A concerned caller reported two boys skateboarding down the middle of the...
POLICE LOG April 21 1:14 a.m. Officer Robert Ekross checked on the gates at the Fruit Street fields and secured them. 10:05 a.m. A caller reported a dog roaming around Schofield Road. Officer Moira McGaffigan responded and reported the dog has been reunited with its...
