A 37-year-old man is under arrest after, Haverhill Police said Saturday morning, he allegedly randomly stabbed two people downtown. Police were dispatched Saturday, just before 9:30 a.m. after receiving reports of two adult men suffering from non-life-threatening stab wounds. One was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Following an investigation with community assistance, police Capt. Meaghan Paré said in a release, officers located and arrested Brian Scrooc without incident.
Arson is now being blamed for a fire that damaged a two-family home early Friday morning on Cedar Street, and Haverhill police reported Saturday a 31-year-old from Lawrence was arrested. Haverhill Fire Chief Robert M. O’Brien told WHAV firefighters noticed an odor of gasoline and suspected the fire began outside, involving two parked cars. Flames crawled up the side of the 48 Cedar Street house and temporarily displaced two families.
Area police departments are taking part in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday. Take Back Day, which runs Saturday, April 26, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., encourages the public to remove unneeded medications from homes as a measure of preventing medication misuse and opioid addiction from ever starting. Those taking part are police departments in Haverhill, Methuen, Groveland, West Newbury, North Andover and Lawrence as well as Plaistow, Atkinson and Newton, N.H.
About 450, two-year-old brown trout were unceremoniously dumped from buckets in twos and threes by children and adults alike at the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife’s trout restocking event Thursday, at Haverhill’s Plug Pond. The noontime occasion, which attracted 75 to the pond, which is also called Lake Saltonstall, showcased the state’s recreational fishing programs. The young 12- to 14-inch-long trout released into the fresh water by enthusiastic releasers are headed eventually for the dinner plate, noted MassWildlife spokesperson Emily Stolarski. “When people see the stocking trucks rolling, their first thought is that we are reintroducing the trout.
