Allan Jung/Daily News Staff State and Hopkinton police officers search yards at Aprilla Farm Road in Hopkinton as they look for the suspect of a break-in.
By Michael Morton/Daily News staff GHS Posted Mar 12, 2008 @ 12:25 AM
HOPKINTON — After an extensive search and false alarm yesterday, police arrested a Mississippi man they say ran from an officer after jumping out of a stolen van he allegedly used in a Holliston break-in. Police said state troopers and a search-dog team found Joseph Patrick Gately hiding in the garage of a Hopkinton home around 5 p.m. after they joined officers from Hopkinton, Holliston, Ashland and Southborough in pursuing him much of the day. During the search, a state police helicopter buzzed low over town and officials locked down the schools. The episode began around 11 a.m., when Holliston Police received a report of a home break-in on Mill Street. A short time later, a Hopkinton officer tried to stop a speeding van. The driver, later identified as Gately, at first refused to pull over, then bolted from the van into the woods next to Westfield Road in Hopkinton, police said. When police determined that the van had been stolen in Connecticut and was connected to the Holliston break-in, dozens of officers converged on the area of South Mill Street and Cranberry Lane. About 2:30 p.m., officers got a tip that a man was walking in the woods off Clinton Street. Police raced over to a muddy field Boulder Capital plans to include in its Legacy Farms development. The man turned out to be a resident out for a walk. A Hopkinton Police car had to be towed out of the muck. Shortly afterward, students began to leave the schools, where they had been kept an extra hour because of the lockdown. While police had no indication that the suspect was dangerous, school Superintendent Jack Phelan wrote in a press release that the decision was an extra precaution. Walking with her mother to their home off Rte. 85, first-grader Karen Rodriguez admitted that she had been "a little bit" scared. Resident Amy Hansen had just picked up her first-grader after unknowingly going for a walk in the woods earlier in the day with her younger daughter and a girl Hansen baby-sits. "I was thinking, whoa," Hansen said. Gately, 40, was charged with breaking and entering in the daytime with the intent to commit a felony, receiving stolen property, using a vehicle to commit a felony, failing to stop for an officer, driving to endanger, using a vehicle without permission and leaving the scene of a property-damaging accident, police said. Gately was being held on $25,000 bail last night. He was scheduled to be arraigned in Framingham District Court this morning. Given that another home was broken into on Vine Street in Ashland Monday evening, Ashland Police Lt. Richard Briggs said his department was also investigating whether Gately is responsible. "It's something we're looking into," Briggs said.
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