‘Going to bomb your police station and kill you all’: Man arrested on Main Street for assaulting first responders

A Framingham man released on parole earlier in the day was arrested Thursday night on Main Street after injuring five Hopkinton first responders who attempted to get him medical attention and threatening to bomb the police station, according to a police report.

According to the report, HPD Sgt. Cody Normandin, the shift supervisor, was patrolling the downtown area in uniform. He observed a man at 8:13 p.m. sitting on the rock wall on the Main Street side of Hopkinton Gas who was “slumped forward” and “appeared to be unconscious.”

Normandin approached the man, later identified as Thomas Timpone, of Framingham. Timpone told Normandin he was waiting for the bus and began to swear at him. Normandin observed the smell of alcohol on Timpone, according to the report, and noticed several nip bottles on the ground around him. He called for backup at that point and requested that the Hopkinton Fire Department perform a medical evaluation on Timpone…

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