Having seen footage and heard reports of ICE raids in recent weeks and months, residents wondered what was up Tuesday morning when they saw Wellesley police and unmarked vehicles pulling over landscaping trucks in Wellesley Hills.
We received several separate messages from readers on Tuesday about what they had seen, including the pullover of what were described as a construction truck and landscaping truck across from the Hills Library, with multiple police cars seen in the church parking lot across the street. Another person reported seeing a landscaping truck pulled over in the Cliff Estates area, with a man in handcuffs, and police cars in front and behind the truck. “A fancy unmarked truck with blue and red flashing lights joined the scene” as well. Another resident reported seeing 5 Wellesley police cruisers at the corner of Bristol and Sagamore Roads, with officers talking to a landscaper.
“The neighborhood is rife with rumors about an ICE raid,” we were told.
(I personally saw a police car, with lights flashing, pursue a landscaping vehicle on Oak Street in Natick Tuesday morning.)…