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Seekonk Police Log: Bomb Scare, Copper Wire Thief

Officers respond to reports from locals.

Posted Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:54 pm ET|Updated Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:06 pm ET

On Tuesday, Dec. 6, Seekonk police officers responded to a report of breaking and entering at Pop’s Ice Cream on Fall River Avenue. Someone had broken a rear window to enter and proceeded to tear down walls, ceiling tiles and bathroom fixtures in order to steal all of the copper pipe from the building’s plumbing and heating.
On Thursday, Dec. 8, police were alerted to the presence of a large metal artillery shell from World War II. The shell had the words “1944 D-Day” written on it in a garage on Sims Avenue. The area was evacuated until Trooper Stephen T. Sicard Jr. of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad was able to arrive on the scene, x-ray the shell and declare that it was not hazardous. Sicard took possession of the shell as it was the rightful property of the United States military. The owner of the shell had received the item from his neighbor and had been trying to sell it for him at a local military store and was told to go home and call the police.

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