Chelmsford Police Department

2 Olde North Road
Chelmsford, MA 01824
(ph) 9782562521 (fax) 978-256-6872

   

POLICE FORMAL REPORT 11/24/17 09:09
PAGE: 1
Case#: 668041 -55
Date: 11/22/17 09:07 Reported: WEDNESDAY 11/22/17 08:27
Ucr: 140 DISTURBANCE-GENERAL
ibr: 1:916
Location: 120 RICHARDSON RD and HARRINGTON SCHOOL
Follow Up By: NEEDED Case Status: CLEARED NORMAL
Officer: Status: COMPLETED
Review Officer: 40 SGT GOODE
Comp/Vict Notify: NO Sup Review Officer:

Cir/Involve Type:

 

Complaint: ISSUE AT MAIN OFFICE

 

Reporting Officer: 96 PTL FERNALD Assignment: 8 Car: 3
Second Officer: 99 PTL Sup/Back-Up: 4O SGT GOODE

 

NAMES 
Type Mast# Name/Add Phone Dob 

INVOLVED 046206 SALMON, JENNIFER 

 

INVOLVED 221369 

INVOLVED 222902 
REPORTING 211335 

 

NARRATIVE 

ON WEDNESDAY 11/22/2017, I, OFFICER FERNALD, WAS ASSIGNED TO PATROL CAR #3
ON THE 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM SHIFT. AT APPROXIMATELY 8:30 AM, OFFICER 
DETECTIVE (GEORGE) TYROS, SERGEANT GOODE, AND I RESPONDED TO THE HARRINGTON
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AT 120 RICHARDSON ROAD, FOR THE THIRD PARTY REPORT OF AN
ONGOING DISTURBANCE IN THE LOBBY.

UPON MY ARRIVAL, I MET WITH CHELMSFORD PUBLIC SUPERINTENDENT, JAY
LANG, WHO WAS HAVING WHAT APPEARED TO BE A HEATED DISCUSSION WITH A UNION

REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE TEACHING STAFF, ERIC BLANCHET. LANG THEN LOOKED AT ME
AND SAID NEED THIS MAN TO LEAVE THE I SEPARATED THE TWO, AND LANG
WALKED AWAY TO RETRIEVE THE SCHOOLS PRINCIPAL, PATRICIA TOBIN. BLANCHET TOLD ME
THAT HE HAD COME TO THE SCHOOL EARLY THIS MORNING TO HAVE A MEETING WITH TOBIN
REGARDING ONGOING ISSUES IN THE TEACHERS UNION. WHEN HE WAS TOLD THE MEETING
WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING HE GREW UPSET, AND BEGAN TO ASK THE PRINCIPAL WHY. WHEN

I TOLD HIM THAT HIS ACTIONS WERE UNACCEPTABLE IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL DURING SCHOOL
HOURS, HE REPLIED WITH I HAVE A JOB TO WHEN BACK UP UNITS ARRIVED, I
HAD ERIC STEP OUTSIDE AS I ADDRESSED THE ISSUE WITH THE PRINCIPAL.

I FOUND PRINCIPAL TOBIN IN A CLASSROOM DOWN THE HALLWAY, IT WAS
IMMEDIATELY APPARENT TO ME THAT SHE WAS SHAKEN UP. HER EYES WERE RED AND PUFFY,
AND SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY UPSET. SHE THEN TOLD ME THE FOLLOWING: SHE WAS PREPARING
FOR THE SCHOOL DAY, AS IT WAS THE LAST HALF DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING BREAK.
BLANCHET CAME INTO HER OFFICE AND DEMANDED A MEETING, AND WHEN SHE TOLD HIM SHE
WOULD NOT ENTERTAIN THIS TODAY, HE GREW ENRAGED AND BEGAN TO SHOUT AT TOBIN. AS
TOBIN CONTINUED TO DENY ERIC HIS MEETING HE WALKED VERY CLOSE TO HER AND BEGAN
TO POINT HIS INDEX FINGER AT HER FACE WHILE TOBIN TOLD ME THAT SHE
FELT THREATENED DURING THIS TIME. TOBIN GREW VERY UPSET, AND LEFT THE SITUATION
TO CALL LANG. BLANCHET THEN SAT IN A CHAIR, AND WAITED IN HER OFFICE. IN THE
SHUFFLE, TOBIN HAD LEFT HER CELL PHONE ON THE TABLE THAT ERIC WAS SEATED AT.
AFTER LANG WAS CONTACTED TOBIN BEGAN TO SOLICIT HELP IN FINDING HER PHONE. ONE
OF THE CHECKED HER OFFICE, AND FOUND THE PHONE ON THE TABLE JUST AS
LANG PLACED A CALL TO IT. BLANCHET PICKED UP THE PHONE AND SAW THAT LANG WAS
WHEN THE SECRETARY ASKED FOR THE PHONE BLANCHET TOLD HER SHE
(TOBIN) CAN COME GET IT WHEN LANG ARRIVED AT THE SCHOOL, HE ADVISED
BLANCHET THAT THE POLICE HAD BEEN CONTACTED, AND HE LEFT THE PHONE ON THE TABLE
TO BEGIN HIS HEATED DISCUSSION WITH LANG.

DETECTIVE TYROS HAD BEEN IN THE HIGH SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICE AT THE TIME OF
THIS CALL, AND WAS WATCHING THE SCHOOL CAMERAS AS THIS INCIDENT UNFOLDED. HE
TOLD ME THAT IT APPEARED THAT DURING WITH LANG, HE PUT
HIS HANDS ON LANG 2-3 TIMES. HOWEVER, LANG LATER ADVISED OFFICERS THAT THIS WAS
MERELY INCIDENTAL TO THE CONVERSATION THEY WERE HAVING. LANG EXPRESSED THAT HE
DID NOT WANT TO FILE CRIMINAL CHARGES, BUT HE JUST WANTED BLANCHET TO LEAVE THE
SCHOOL FOR THE DAY. HE ALSO TOLD ME THAT HE MADE THE ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION TO
SEND THE UNION PRESIDENT, JENNIFER SALMON (3RD GRADE TEACHER), HOME FOR THE
DAY TO PREVENT FURTHER ISSUES. JENNIFER WAS VERY UPSET TO THE POINT OF CRYING,
BUT WAS SAFELY ESCORTED OUT OF THE BUILDING BY DETECTIVE TYROS. IT SHOULD BE
NOTED THAT JENNIFER WAS SENT HOME AS A FORMALITY, SHE DID NOT CAUSE ANY ISSUES
AT THE SCHOOL. I INFORMED LANG AS TO THE PROCEDURES OF A ND TRESPASS ORDER (FOR
BLANCHET), AND ADVISED HIM TO CONTACT THE LAWYERS AS THIS INVOLVED A
POTENTIALLY VOLATILE UNION HE STATED HE WOULD DO JUST THAT.

DETECTIVE TYROS AND I SPOKE TO BLANCHET OUTSIDE-OF THE BUILDING, AND
ATTEMPTED TO CONVEY TO RIDICULOUSNESS OF HIS ACTIONS ON AN ACTIVE SCHOOL DAY.
HE CONTINUOUSLY REPLIED THAT HE HAS JOB TO I THEN TOLD HIM THAT HE
OVERSTEPPED TODAY AND HE HAD BORDERED ON BEING CHARGED WITH DISTURBING A SCHOOL

ASSEMBLY. HE WAS ALSO INFORMED THAT CRIMINAL CHARGES MAY BE FORTHCOMING FOR
ASSAULT AND BATTERY ON SUPERINTENDENT LANG, AS WELL AS ASSAULT ON PRINCIPAL
TOBIN. WE ESCORTED HIM TO HIS VEHICLE, AND SERGEANT GOODE SPOKE TO ERIC AT
LENGTH ABOUT HIS POOR ACTIONS WITH HOLDING THE PRINCIPALS CELL PHONE, AS WELL
AS HIS OVERALL DEMEANOR REGARDING THE ENTIRE INCIDENT. AS OFFICER UBELE IS THE
SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FOR THE HARRINGTON, I WILL BE FORWARDING HIM THE
INFORMATION FROM THIS REPORT.

NOTHING FURTHER.

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I recommend this case be declared:
Unfounded( Not Cleared( Court Action( cleared by Arrest( 

Case Declared:
Active( Complete( Unfounded( Domestic Violence( 

 

 

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