Three arrests in area brawl
Published on March 26th, 2003
STONEHAM, MA - A pair of Stoneham residents and a Reading man were arrested last Thursday night after a Pond Street melee devolved into individuals allegedly brandishing furniture as a dangerous weapon. Moises Castro, 26, of 506 Summit Ave., Reading, allegedly struck a partygoer at 3 Pond Street with a beer bottle, and, according to Stoneham police reports, Castro was then attacked with a knife and a chair in separate attacks.
Stoneham Police reported to the Pond Street scene at 10:47 p.m., and attempted to then untangle the snarled details of the brawl. Castro was arrested at the scene for assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, but was also transported to Melrose/Wakefield Hospital after he was allegedly cut in the chin with a knife.
Police also arrested Christopher Snow, 26, of 3 Pond Street, Stoneham, for a series of outstanding warrants for breaking and entering and malicious destruction of property. Snow's girlfriend then came to the Stoneham police station, presumably to bail him out, and Stoneham police discovered that she also had warrants out for her arrest.
Shannon Riga, 21, of 3 Pond Street Stoneham, was jailed for outstanding arrest warrants stemming from charges of assault and battery of a public employee, breaking and entering in the nighttime, and larceny over $250.
According to police reports, Castro alleges that Snow attacked him with a knife and that Riga allegedly clobbered him with a chair in defending an unnamed fourth party that Castro allegedly struck with a bottle.
Det. Bob McKinnon, along with arresting officers Sgt. Stefanelli and Officer Wilkins, returned to scene to arrest Snow and also to look for the knife and chair, but, according to police reports, the scene had been cleaned up and there were no weapons at the scene.
Both Riga and Snow were summonsed to Woburn District Court for subsequent charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and all three were arraigned at Woburn District Court on Friday morning.
A Woburn man was arrested on Friday, March 21, after he allegedly attempted to cash a stolen check for $495.72 at the Stop'N'Shop in Stoneham.
Shawn Stogsdill, 29, of 46 Warren Ave., Woburn, was arrested for two counts of uttering a false check, two counts of forgery and one count of larceny over $250.
According to police reports, he had cashed a similarly phony check at the same supermarket on March 17 for $497.37, and Det. McKinnon, working with supermarket officials, were ready and waiting for Stogsdill to return. He did and was arrested at the scene at 2:36 p.m.
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