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Police Arrest Man While Searching for Patient

The following information was supplied by the Westwood Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Westwood Police on Saturday arrested a Roxbury man that had gone missing from earlier in the day.

Police approached an individual matching the description of the missing patient, and when asking him for identification, the man was non-compliant.

As such, police arrested the individual on charges of disorderly conduct, assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest.

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Police clarified that the man was not the patient from Westwood Lodge; that person was later found by police.


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