BEDFORD – A Bedford man was arrested on Monday, September 11 after Bedford Police officers responded to a report of a man taking items out of a shed at 131 Stoneway Drive.
The caller told police the man was wearing black shorts and had no shirt on and they didn’t know the man. The man was loading a wagon with the caller’s belongings.
When police arrived they found 37-year-old Matthew Lane standing on the other side of a barbed wire fence. He was standing near a pile of items that had been removed from the shed.
As officers approached Lane, he told them he would return the items, he had “gotten into the wrong shed”. Police say Lane appeared intoxicated.
Lane was detained on charges of burglary, theft, and criminal trespass.
Lane told police he was “cleaning out the shed and taking trash, as he was told to do”.
As he was being escorted to a police vehicle, Lane stated he didn’t want to go back to jail and began to pull away from the officer. He had to be forcibly stopped. Once in the police vehicle, Lane began kicking the windows and screaming.
An officer asked Lane why he was acting this way and he responded “he had been consuming drugs all week and was nervous”.
Lane was additionally charged with resisting arrest.
The stolen items were returned to the homeowner and Lane was transported to jail.
