Police log: Five New Bedford arrests on Oct. 22, one on seven charges including daytime breaking and entering
The South Street arrest, on charges including breaking and entering a building in the daytime for a felony and assault and battery on a police officer, is the only entry the log does not mark as approved.
NEW BEDFORD New Bedford police listed five arrests in their daily arrest log for Thursday, Oct. 22, among them a South Street arrest on seven charges that include breaking and entering a building in the daytime for a felony and assault and battery on a police officer. Three of the other four were warrant arrests. The department generated the log at 7:40 a.m. Friday.
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.
Thursday, Oct. 22
- 9:21 a.m., Pleasant Street: arrest on a warrant.
- 12:31 p.m., Purchase Street: arrest on a warrant.
- 1:30 p.m., Purchase Street: arrest on a warrant, resisting arrest and a city ordinance violation.
- 2 p.m., Ruth Street: a motor vehicle lights violation, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked registration, operating with a suspended or revoked license, operating with a suspended license as a subsequent offense, and operating with a suspended registration as a subsequent offense.
- 5:24 p.m., South Street: breaking and entering a building in the daytime for a felony, assault and battery on a police officer, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, larceny under $1,200, resisting arrest and assault. A note on the entry says the case is open and the report can be released once a supervisor approves it.
By the numbers
The five entries carry 17 charges in all. The three warrant entries list the warrant itself as the offense, and the 1:30 p.m. arrest on Purchase Street added a resisting arrest count and a city ordinance charge to its warrant.
The Ruth Street arrest accounts for five of the charges, four of them tied to a suspended or revoked license or registration, with two of those listed as subsequent offenses. The log files the lights violation and three of the license and registration counts under traffic and town bylaw offenses.
The South Street arrest carries the most charges, seven, and is the only entry the log does not mark as approved. The log files its breaking and entering count under burglary, the larceny under all other larceny, the assault and battery on a police officer and the assault under simple assault, and the disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct counts under disorderly conduct.
All five arrests came between 9:21 a.m. and 5:24 p.m., and the log lists every case as open. It marks none of the five as a juvenile or domestic case.
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. South Coast 360 prints less than the log does and leaves out names, house numbers, home addresses and hometowns.
The department's log for the day before, Wednesday, Oct. 21, listed seven arrests, including an OUI on Hathaway Road (Police log, Oct. 21). For how an arrest, a summons and a warrant differ, see our explainer on how criminal cases start in Massachusetts.
An arrest is not a conviction. Everyone charged is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
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. 22, linked in the sources and read Saturday evening, Oct. 24. 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 checked each date and weekday against a calendar. We leave out names, house numbers, home addresses, hometowns and warrant numbers. Not heard: this digest names no one, so no one was asked for comment. A request for the South Street report is going to the department, and its reply will be added here.
Corrections
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Sources (3)
- New Bedford Police Department, Arrest Status Report, Oct. 22, 2026Two-page scanned log, generated Oct. 23, 7:40 a.m., posted on the Police Logs page as "Arrests October 22, 2026." Read Oct. 24, 2026.
- New Bedford Police Department, Police Logs pageIndex of the daily arrest logs. Read Oct. 24, 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. 24, 2026.