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Sunday, August 26, 2012

OMGPD: Fleeing Burglar Cornered & Gun Found in Wall of Convicted Murderer's Former Home

Our weekly compilation of some of the more unusual police reports from around the Boston area. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.

  If these walls could talk ... ... they might reveal how a gun and ammo ended up hidden behind them. The new owners of a long-vacant home in Wayland were doing some remodeling when they pulled down a wall and found a gun, ammo and gun oil in a military ammunition box hanging from a hidden rafter. As it turns out, the home was once occupied by a man convicted in a 1990 murder: http://patch.com/A-xkqG   Armored and Erratic? Police in Concord received a call last week reporting an armored truck was swerving all over the roadway along Route 62 in West Concord. http://patch.com/A-xhDP   We've Heard of Howling at the Moon But Never This Concord Police last week received a call from a Maynard man who reported a black lab jumped into his vehicle …

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