Two arrested for theft of a dog

I’m a little busy here since I’ve got a lot to accomplish before my vacation starts at midnight tonight, but here’s a story I just cranked out about the alleged theft of a pit bull in Dracut today.

By Robert Mills
rmills@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — A Dracut couple is facing charges they stole a dog from another couple during an altercation on Methuen Street, and then struck a woman with a car as they fled with the dog.
Deputy Chief David Chartrand said Emanuel Lima, 28, and Ashley Dewolfe, 27, both of 21 Wigham Ave., met up with a couple they know on Methuen Street in the area of Hillside Drive about 7:15 p.m.
“They met to talk about money that was owed between the couples, and the discussion turned into an altercation,” Chartrand said.
The victims in the case, who police did not identify, had their dog, a pit bull, in their car when the fight broke out.
“They took the dog from the victims’ vehicle, placed it in their vehicle, and began to flee,” Chartrand said.
As Emanuel and Dewolfe fled, their car struck the female victim, who was taken to Lowell General Hospital for observation, Chartrand said. Her injuries did not appear to be serious, he said.
Emanuel and Dewolfe had fled the area by the time police were contacted, but the victims told police where they live.
Chartrand said Emanuel and Dewolfe were arrested at their home a short time later.

Bashed in the head with a rock

A 911 call sent emergency crews to Gorham Street near Chambers Street at 9:24 p.m., for what was initially reported as a possible stabbing.

Police found the unidentified man who is pictured below bleeding heavily from a head wound.

The victim was conscious, though, and told police he is homeless, and was fighting with another homeless man up the street when the other homeless man hit him in the head with a rock.

He was not stabbed, and was still pretty angry. He was shouting as he was taken into the ambulance by Trinity for a trip to Saints Medical Center.

Robbery arrest in Lowell

I was off yesterday so I didn’t get a chance to blog on this, but in case you missed it, Detectives Cory Erickson and Jim Cassella made a pretty heads-up arrest of a robbery suspect Friday morning.

Capt. Richardson emailed me about the arrest, which was made in connection with a robbery at Guerrero’s Market, 32 Westford St., that occurred at 9:52 a.m.

The suspect was a Hispanic male in a gray sweatshirt who pulled a gun and demanded cash from the register.

This robbery didn’t go the way most do.

Felony assault with a bottle

It looks like Lowell doesn’t have an exclusive on weekend violence outside of bars.

A 29-year-old Billerica man, Michael Murray, whose mugshot is at right, is facing felony assault charges because police say he bottled a guy outside a bar on Main Street early Sunday morning.

Nashua Police say they were called to the Peddler’s Daughter, 48 Main Street, in Nashua, Sunday at 1:06 a.m., for a report of an assault.

Officers investigated and determined Murray, who lives at 342 Treble Cove Road, got into a fight with another patron of the bar and struck that man in the head with a bottle, causing a laceration.

Murray was charged with second degree assault, a felony that comes with a sentence of up to 7 years upon conviction.

Murray was held Sunday on $5,000 cash or surety bail. He was arraigned today in Nashua District Court, but the results of that proceeding aren’t available to me tonight since I didn’t hear about this until after the court had closed for the day.

Mother’s Day carjacking – flowers included

I guess even bad guys love their mother?

Boston Police say Brian Cunneen, 21, of Lowell, and Shawn Hickey, 40, of Boston, robbed a cab driver on Mother’s Day at about 6 p.m. Boston Police say that Hickey shot the cab driver with a BB gun, and then carjacked and crashed the cab nearby.

Boston Police say that as Cunneen, pictured at left, ran from the crashed, carjacked cab, he suddenly turned around, ran back, and grabbed a red, yellow and orange bouquet of flowers out of the back seat.

Then he took off running.

Neither Boston Police nor Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk DA Daniel Conley, could confirm for me that the flowers were a Mother’s Day gift.

“It looks like no one asked those knitty gritty questions,” Wark said.

The cab driver told police he was in the area of Rutherford Avenue and Washington Street in Charlestown, about 6 p.m., with two men in the back of his cab, when Hickey pointed a gun at the driver and demanded cash, according to police.

The cab driver told police he got out of the cab, and began fighting with the two men, which prompted Hickey to shoot the cab driver twice with what turned out to be a BB gun, police said.