NEW BEDFORD New Bedford police listed seven arrests in their daily arrest log for Wednesday, Oct. 21, among them an operating under the influence charge on Hathaway Road, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on County Street and three warrant arrests. The department generated the log at 7:40 a.m. Thursday.
Each entry below gives the time, street and charges as the log lists them, with the department's abbreviations spelled out. The street is the arrest location in the log, which is not always where the person lives.
Wednesday, Oct. 21
- 11:39 a.m., South Sixth Street: arrest on a warrant.
- 2:04 p.m., Elm Street: assault and battery. A note on the entry says the case is open and the report can be released once a supervisor approves it.
- 3:55 p.m., Hathaway Road: operating under the influence of liquor or with a blood alcohol level of 0.08% or more, a traffic charge the log lists as failure to yield at an intersection or improper turn, and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
- 5:04 p.m., Page Street: arrest on a warrant.
- 6:22 p.m., County Street: two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
- 10:15 p.m., Pleasant Street: possession of a Class B drug.
- 10:32 p.m., Union Street: arrest on four warrants.
By the numbers
Three of the seven entries are warrant arrests covering six warrants in all, with one person arrested on four warrants and two on one each, and the warrant entries do not say what the underlying warrants charge. The log files the two County Street counts under its aggravated assault category, the Elm Street charge under simple assault, the Hathaway Road OUI under driving under the influence, with the other two charges under traffic and town bylaw offenses, and the Pleasant Street charge under drug and narcotic violations.
The log lists every case as open, and six of the entries are marked approved; the Elm Street entry is the only one that is not. Four of the seven arrests were logged after 5 p.m., the last at 10:32 p.m. on Union Street.
About this log
State law requires every police department to keep a daily log of complaints, reported crimes and arrests, including the names and addresses of people arrested and the charges, and makes those entries public records. Responses to domestic violence, rape or sexual assault, arrests for assault, assault and battery or a protective order violation against a family or household member, arrests of anyone under 18, and entries about a person with a disability who is confined to a wheelchair, is bedridden or needs a mobility device go in a separate log that is not public, under Chapter 41, Section 98F. The public log marks all seven of its Oct. 21 entries as neither a juvenile nor a domestic case. South Coast 360 prints less than the log does and leaves out names, house numbers, home addresses and hometowns.
Label: Reported by us, from the town's posted records.
Notes
Every entry comes from the New Bedford Police Department's daily arrest log for Oct. 21, linked in the sources and read Thursday afternoon, Oct. 22. It is a scanned document, so each entry was read by eye, and charges are given in plain wording. The log rules come from the text of state law on the Legislature's website. We leave out names, house numbers, home addresses, hometowns and warrant numbers. Not heard: no one was contacted, because this digest names no one.
Corrections
No corrections to this story. If something here is wrong, tell us. Every correction is dated on the story and listed in our public log.
Sources (3)
- New Bedford Police Department, Arrest Status Report, Oct. 21, 2026Two-page scanned log, generated Oct. 22, 7:40 a.m., posted on the Police Logs page as "Arrests October 21, 2026." Read Oct. 22, 2026.
- New Bedford Police Department, Police Logs pageIndex of the daily arrest logs. Read Oct. 22, 2026.
- Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 41, Section 98FDaily police logs are public records; domestic, sexual assault, juvenile and certain disability entries are kept in a separate log. Read Oct. 22, 2026.