Man wanted in April stabbing arraigned

FITCHBURG » A homeless man who stabbed another homeless man during a fight over a woman was arraigned in district court Monday after being sought by police, according to court and police documents.

Police were called to the area of the Water Street bridge in late April on a report of a man being stabbed.

When an officer arrived, the 54-year-old victim was bleeding from a stab wound in his chest

and after being loaded into an ambulance for transport to an area hospital, the officer spoke with him, the officer reported.

The victim told the officer that Laurence G. Kelly, 33, had attacked him, adding that he didn’t fight back because he was afraid of going to prison.

When an officer inter

viewed the victim at the hospital, he was uncooperative and refused to answer additional questions about the attack. He was released from the hospital after three days, the officer reported.

About an hour later, Kelly was found behind ZEDA’S Pizza and taken into custody for a probation violation.

While in custody, Kelly told officers he didn’t know what they were talking about when they asked

about the stabbing.

Despite that, officers applied for a summons to have Kelly appear in court on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, according to the police report.

Kelly was scheduled for arraignment on July 13, but failed to appear and a warrant for his arrest was issued, according to court documents.

When arraigned on Monday, Kelly was ordered held in lieu of a $1,000

cash bail or $10,000 surety bond, according to court documents.

Kelly is currently being held at the Worcester County House of Corrections, according to a spokesperson.

He will return to court on Nov. 2.

Employee of city business charged with larceny

FITCHBURG » After someone had taken money from a petty cash drawer on

three occasions from a city business, a camera was installed in the area where the money was taken and it recorded an Otter City man taking the cash, according to police and court documents.

In early July, a business on Authority Drive contacted police and reported that on May 25, June 12 and 26, cash had been taken from a petty cash drawer.

On July 7, the business reported it had identified

Jason G. Brewer, 26, of Hamlet Mill Road, as the suspect in the theft of $440. Brewer was fired and police could not immediately locate him and summonsed him to court on a felony breaking and entering charge and larceny from a building, the officer reported.

Brewer was arraigned Monday in district court and released on personal recognizance and ordered to return to court on Dec. 1 for a pretrial hearing.