Lynn man held on $50G for drug, weapons charges, assaulting officer

SAUGUS – A Lynn man with five open warrants is in jail after an early Wednesday morning foot chase with Saugus Police.Dwayne Richardson, 29, of 9 Union Place, Lynn, was arrested and charged with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, possession to distribute a class D drug (subsequent offense), carrying a firearm without a license, trespassing, possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card, possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a firearm after previous drug offense conviction on Wednesday at 4:20 a.m.Lynn District Court Judge Ellen Flatley ordered Richardson held on $50,000 bail at his arraignment on Wednesday.According to police reports, Saugus Police officer Thomas Wilson saw a male walking at the intersection of Lawndale and Glendale avenues at 4:20 a.m. Wednesday with a backpack and a “baseball cap tucked low on his head with a hood over it.” Wilson wrote in his report that the man looked up and immediately put his head down in “what appeared to be an attempt to hide his face.”Wilson pulled up and asked the man where he was coming from, to which he responded, from “my friend’s house.”Wilson wrote the man said he didn’t know the name of his friend or the name of the street and began reaching into his pockets and making motions “that appeared to be an attempt to hide something.”Wilson exited his cruiser to speak with him further and to pat frisk him, said the report. Wilson wrote he began to frisk him and as he got to the man’s waist, the man lunged back and struck him in the face, causing him to fall backwards and stumble.”I grabbed the man to place him under arrest, and we struggled for approximately 10 seconds before he broke away from me and ran down Glendale Avenue,” said Wilson in his report. “I radioed in a foot pursuit and chased the man for a few moments, he lost his shoe in the process.”Wilson got back into his cruiser and at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Lander Street, he wrote he saw the man running through the front yard of a home with his backpack in his hand. Wilson wrote the man threw the backpack into the woods and then ran into a thick wooded area.The report states the man, later identified as Richardson, became “entangled in a thick thorn bush, at which time I attempted to place him under arrest.”Wilson wrote that he refused to be handcuffed so he struck him with approximately “three palm strikes to the face and then used a rear wrist lock to gain control of him.”At that point, the report states other officers arrived to help with the arrest and the suspect was treated by emergency medical technicians for cuts to the head and legs.Police recovered the backpack and in it the report states officers found a silver Smith and Wesson 9 mm handgun, a silver ammunition magazine fully loaded with two hollow point 9 mm rounds and six 9 mm frangible rounds, a digital scale, individually wrapped bags of a green leaf-like substance, a Gucci bag, a tube of Neosporin, Old Spice deodorant, a plastic bag full of rubber bands and a plastic bag full of smaller plastic bags.The report states that Richardson refused to provide identification and after police ran his fingerprints, they came back to Dwayne Richardson, who had five active warrants for his arrest.According to court records, Richardson has open warrants out of Malden and Somerville district courts for charges including possession to distribute a class A drug, breaking and entering in the nighttime, receiving stolen property and carrying a firearm without an FID card.Richardson is due back in court on Aug. 1.Matt Tempesta can be reached at [email protected].