Police log: 22 New Bedford arrests Oct. 23 to 25, including two on animal cruelty charges and nine on warrants
Friday brought 13 of the arrests. Sunday ended with an Airport Road arrest on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and threatening to commit a crime.
NEW BEDFORD New Bedford police listed 22 arrests in their daily arrest logs for Friday, Oct. 23, through Sunday, Oct. 25, among them two Friday morning arrests on Hemlock Street, a minute apart, on animal cruelty charges and a Sunday night arrest on Airport Road for assault with a dangerous weapon. Nine of the 22 were arrests on warrants alone.
Friday's log was the busiest of the three, with 13 arrests, while Saturday's listed six and Sunday's listed three. The department generated each log at 7:40 a.m. the morning after the day it covers.
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.
Friday, Oct. 23
- 12:57 a.m., Maywood Street: a city ordinance violation, assault and battery on a police officer and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
- 7:59 a.m., Hemlock Street: animal cruelty by a custodian and a dog tethering or confining violation.
- 8 a.m., Hemlock Street: a dog tethering or confining violation and animal cruelty by a custodian.
- 9:29 a.m., County Street: arrest on a warrant.
- 12:50 p.m., William Street: possession of a Class B drug, conspiracy to violate the drug law and possession of ammunition without a firearms identification card.
- 2:17 p.m., Pleasant Street: operating a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked license, failure to signal and possession of a Class D drug with intent to distribute. A note on the entry says the report can be released once a supervisor approves it.
- 2:25 p.m., Mount Pleasant Street: arrest on a warrant.
- 3:52 p.m., Purchase Street: arrest on two warrants.
- 3:56 p.m., Purchase Street: arrest on a warrant.
- 4:44 p.m., Gifford Street: arrest on two warrants.
- 5:27 p.m., Elm Street: distribution of a Class B drug, distribution of a Class B drug as a subsequent offense and conspiracy to violate the drug law.
- 5:54 p.m., Cove Street: arrest on two warrants.
- 7:35 p.m., Rodney French Boulevard: disorderly conduct and two counts of carrying a dangerous weapon while disturbing the peace.
Saturday, Oct. 24
- 5:29 a.m., Maxfield Street: disorderly conduct, breaking and entering a building or vehicle for a misdemeanor, and two counts of assault and battery on a police officer.
- 9:50 a.m., Nye Street: trespass.
- 12:10 p.m., Central Avenue: two counts of breaking and entering a vehicle or boat in the nighttime for a felony, and larceny over $1,200.
- 4:50 p.m., Coggeshall Street: disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and interfering with a police officer. A note on the entry says the report can be released once a supervisor approves it.
- 5:32 p.m., Coggeshall Street: operating under the influence of liquor or with a blood alcohol level of 0.08% or more, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle. The same note is on this entry.
- 11:37 p.m., Mosher Street: arrest on a warrant.
Sunday, Oct. 25
- 9:13 a.m., County Street: arrest on a warrant.
- 6:51 p.m., Carriage Drive: arrest on a warrant.
- 8:50 p.m., Airport Road: assault with a dangerous weapon and threatening to commit a crime.
By the numbers
The 22 entries carry 47 charges in all, with 28 on Friday, 15 on Saturday and four on Sunday. The nine warrant entries list the warrant itself as the offense. Three of the people arrested Friday were each arrested on two warrants, so those nine arrests account for 12 warrant counts.
Three Friday arrests carried drug charges, and the Elm Street arrest lists two counts of distributing a Class B drug, one of them as a subsequent offense, along with a conspiracy count. The William Street arrest lists a Class B possession count, a conspiracy count and a charge of possessing ammunition without a firearms identification card. The Pleasant Street arrest adds a Class D intent to distribute count to two motor vehicle charges.
Assault and battery on a police officer appears in two entries, the 12:57 a.m. Friday arrest on Maywood Street and the 5:29 a.m. Saturday arrest on Maxfield Street, which lists two counts.
Three entries are not marked as approved in the logs: Friday's 2:17 p.m. arrest on Pleasant Street and Saturday's two arrests on Coggeshall Street, at 4:50 p.m. and 5:32 p.m. The logs list every case as open. None of the 22 is marked as a juvenile or domestic case, and state law puts those arrests in a separate log, described below.
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 Thursday, Oct. 22, listed five arrests, including a South Street arrest on seven charges (Police log, Oct. 22). For what can happen to a driver's license after an OUI arrest, see our explainer on license suspensions after an OUI arrest 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 logs for Oct. 23, 24 and 25, linked in the sources and read Monday afternoon, Oct. 26. They are scanned documents, 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.
Corrections
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Sources (5)
- New Bedford Police Department, Arrest Status Report, Oct. 23, 2026Four-page scanned log, generated Oct. 24, 7:40 a.m., posted on the Police Logs page as "Arrests October 23, 2026." Read Oct. 26, 2026.
- New Bedford Police Department, Arrest Status Report, Oct. 24, 2026Two-page scanned log, generated Oct. 25, 7:40 a.m., posted on the Police Logs page as "Arrests October 24, 2026." Read Oct. 26, 2026.
- New Bedford Police Department, Arrest Status Report, Oct. 25, 2026One-page scanned log, generated Oct. 26, 7:40 a.m., posted on the Police Logs page as "Arrests October 25, 2026." Read Oct. 26, 2026.
- New Bedford Police Department, Police Logs pageIndex of the daily arrest logs. Read Oct. 26, 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. 26, 2026.