An emergency order.
A "vulgar male party," (that was the dispatcher's decription, probably not the caller's) called 911 in Milford to report that Wendy's wouldn't serve him in the drive-through. 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.
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.
Here's more evidence that drugs harm your brain.
An alleged drug deal turned into an armed robbery last weekend in Marlborough, with the would-be drug seller reporting to cops that he had been robbed. 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.
In this little bit of poetic justice, a surveillance video in Northborough helped lead cops to a man who is charged with stealing, among other things, surveillance equipment.