MEXICO — The Police Department is continuing to get complaints about people claiming to be from the IRS and demanding money from local residents, Police Chief Roy Hodsdon said. “We received three calls already this week about the IRS and obviously, the same phone number is used, and I tell people to Google that number […]
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Blown oil pump, not blown engine in Mexico PD SUV cruiser
MEXICO — Police Chief Roy Hodsdon was breathing a sigh of relief Thursday morning that the department’s 2012 Chevrolet Tahoe is back in service. He said a garage replaced the SUV’s motor last month and the department got it back May 1. That night, Lt. Dan Carrier was driving it during a drunken-driving patrol on […]
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MEXICO — The Police Department responded to 109 complaints from May 1 through 14, including the following: * At 7:56 p.m. May 11, officer Rob Drouin took a report of an erratic driver traveling on Route 120 toward Roxbury Pond Village in a Saab convertible. A witness told police the driver “was coming down through […]
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MEXICO — The Police Department responded to 158 calls for service from April 13 to 29, including three reports of frauds or scams, Chief Roy Hodsdon said. “One on Middle Avenue and another on Kimball Avenue were callers saying they were from the Internal Revenue Service and telling residents that they would be arrested for […]
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Mexico police use warning stickers to fight underage drinking
MEXICO — For the past three years, local police and members of their Explorers program have been applying bright orange stickers to cases of beer and flavored alcohol in local stores around holidays, targeting adults who furnish alcohol to minors. Project Sticker Shock is an awareness campaign by the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition and […]
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The Police Department responded to 39 incidents in the past week, including the following: * A Main Street resident said that while she was in the bathroom at 5:55 p.m. on Feb. 1, someone entered her apartment. Police Chief Roy Hodsdon said police checked the premises and found no intruder. * At 5:26 p.m. on […]