Crime & Safety

Florida Man Arrested on Assault Charge

The Natick Police Department supplied the following information. It does not indicate a conviction.

James Edward Johnson, 25, of Cottage Street in Natick, was arrested at 2:07 a.m. on July 6, and charged with OUI drugs and possessing an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.

He was arrested on South Street after police were called there for a report of a disabled vehicle in the roadway.

John Joseph Burns, 56, of Alsace Terrace in St. Petersburg, FL, was arrested at 3:33 a.m. on July 6, on an assault and battery charge.

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He was arrested at the Crowne Plaza Natick on Worcester Street after the front desk report of a domestic incident in one of the rooms and called a police officer. 


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