How to Be a Good Witness: One Tip Leads to SWAT Team Involvement and Triple Arrest

By John Falkenberg

Lowell, MA — One witness and victim’s tipping off some criminals to police not only lead to the apprehension of the thugs that robbed him, but the deployment of the local SWAT team in the process, the Lowell Sun reports.

It’s a powerful testimony of how much something so little as reporting to police can do.

As the Lowell Sun reports:

Three teenagers were arrested Monday night following an alleged armed robbery that prompted the deployment of a SWAT team in the Centralville neighborhood, police said.

Malia Melendez, 18, of Lowell was arrested and charged with armed robbery, as were two juvenile suspects whose identities were not released, Lowell Police Capt. Jonathan Webb said Tuesday morning. Police had previously said the two juveniles were the only arrests. The suspects and victim were all known to one another, Webb said. Police allegedly recovered a sawed-off shotgun and a 9 mm handgun that they believe were involved in the robbery.

Around 6:55 p.m., a person approached a patrolling officer on Aiken Street and said he had been robbed at gunpoint by two males in a car near the intersection of Ludlam Street and Cumberland Road, Webb said. The victim fled the scene and …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation