Lynn Resident Arrested in Reading For Operating Without a License
The following is an excerpt from the Reading Police Department log. Where charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
The following is an excerpt from the Reading Police Department log from Thursday. The information is open to the public.
Arrests
At 8:25 a.m., as the result of a motor vehicle stop on Prescott Street, Erwin Morales, 37, of 105 Light St. in Lynn was arrested for operating without a license. The FBI indicated that Erwin Morales is an alias for Alfredo Morales Ramirez and a complaint will be issued under that name for false name and address and furnishing a false name after arrest.
Thursday, June 21
- At 12:52 p.m., a caller reported youths gathering and a possible fight on Lowell Street. Police checked the area, but did not find any youths.
- At 12:52 p.m. a caller reported a car accident on Main Street. No injuries were reported.
- At 5:29 p.m., a caller reported a car accident on Salem Street. No injuries were reported.
- At 5:47 p.m., as the result of a motor vehicle stop on Lowell Road, a man was issued a violation for possession of under one ounce of marijuana.
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Tom Jeffords
6:47 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012
Tell me it isn't so. Another Lynn resident arrested in Reading for driving without a license.
M
10:16 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012
At least today the Supreme Court has reaffirmed that police have the right to check the immigration status of such folks during such police stops...certainly a possibility that the reason why so many of these "Lynn residents" don't have driver's licenses (or have fake licenses that don't match their names) is that they are illegal aliens--or, as certain folks call them, "undocumented workers" (which assumes, wrongly, that such persons have a job-at best they are "undocumented persons" which of course is the same thing as "illegal persons" but no one in certain media outlets ever wants to say that...
peter lucci
8:27 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Thank you M, I appeciate you schooling us all in the art of stereotyping...a Lynn resident driving without a license equals an illegal resident. WOW. Pretty sure we all know what "media outlets" you're tuned into!!
M
10:16 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Peter - I am going by the story itself, which indicated that this person arrested was indicated, BY THE FBI as giving a false name. I have relatives presently living in Lynn and of course am aware that not all Lynn residents are illegal. However, if someone is arrested driving without a license (and it is more than merely forgetting to carry it with them - there is no record of a license for the person, ever, it has not been suspended, etc) that seems a pretty good reason to me to question whether such a person is who they say they are, whether he or she is here legally, etc, whether one's name is Morales or Murphy...last year as a test I looked at the patch police blotters for 3 months (I still have the info) and of the 54 stops in Reading for folks not having a valid license, 15 were Lynn residents. That is why the previous poster referred to "another Lynn resident" and why I commented...it is a frequent occurrence in Reading.