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                                            Ptl. Carpenter and RALPH
Officers responded to a disturbance at a Pleasant Strret apartment early Saturday Morning and found that a male suspect had fled the scene after breaking in and assaulting the female occupant. Ptl Carpenter and RALPH, the Department’s drug/tracking K-9, were called in and tracked the suspect to  a location in the vicinity of Amherst Street.   Felipe Rivera, age 22, of Nassau Street ,Chicopee, was subsequently arrested and charged with Breaking and Entering in the nightime, assault and battery amd intimidation of a witness. He was held and transported to the Hampshire County Regional Lock-up.

Ralph has been busy lately, assisting Westfiled  and Agawam Police with tracks of suicidal individuals, and assisting Southwick at their motocross event . He has also made several drug “finds” in the past few months.