A driver, accused of ripping an American flag from the bed of a veteran’s pickup truck on the Fourth of July, will be answering for the act in Haverhill District Court. The veteran, who asked WHAV to omit his name, said he was at a stoplight Saturday afternoon in downtown Haverhill when he felt a shudder and thought his truck had been hit. “Thinking I had been hit, I glanced to the passenger side mirror only to be greeted by an angry white male, around his mid-twenties, pulling up next to me with the stars and stripes balled up in his fist, screaming at me through my closed window before driving off,” he said in a social media post. He quoted the man as saying, “This doesn't belong to you anymore…This will never belong to you again!”
Haverhill Police Capt. Stephen J. Doherty Jr. confirmed for WHAV the man, who allegedly tore one of two flags from its pole, is being summonsed into court. Doherty did not disclose the man’s name, but said he faces charges of larceny under $1,200 value and malicious destruction of property under $1,200 value.
