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Somerset Cop Struck by Fleeing Fall River Man, Police Say
A Fall River man already wanted on various criminal warrants faces additional charges after he allegedly struck a Somerset police officer before fleeing at a high rate of speed and crashing his SUV into a bridge abutment near the Cove Restaurant and Marina in Fall River.
Police Chief George McNeil says Raymond Prevost, 28, who is known to police, will be booked and arraigned as soon as he s released from the hospital.
Wednesday at around 8:30 a.m., Somerset police responded to a report of a man sleeping inside a running Nissan Rogue in the area of 61 Briggs Ave. He had reportedly been there since around 6:45 a.m. Police identified the man as Prevost and determined that he had multiple outstanding warrants.
A Somerset, Massachusetts, police officer purchased groceries for two women suspected of shoplifting five days before Christmas.
Officer Matt Lima responded to a call at a local Stop & Shop store where two women with two small children were suspected of not scanning all their groceries in the self-checkout area, according to a press release from the Somerset Police Department.
Once Lima arrived at the grocery store, he talked to one of the women accused of shoplifting and learned that the women did not have the money to buy Christmas dinner because they fell on hard times.
“The woman I talked to, she explained she was working, but the mother of the children was not working and had some other family issues going on and that what she had taken was Christmas dinner for the kids,” Lima told WJAR.