Claremont police respond to Washington St. coffee shop panic alarm; no threat

Dispatch logs captured by CrimeRadar show Claremont officers responded to a commercial panic alarm at a Washington Street coffee/donut shop at approximately 9:25 a.m. on Feb. 20. Officers arrived at the business on Washington Street and began an on-site investigation, according to the logs.

The alarm was logged specifically as a commercial panic alarm for the coffee/donut shop; the CrimeRadar dispatch entry lists the call type and the 9:25 a.m. response time. Claremont officers checked the premises and ran the standard alarm response procedures recorded in the dispatch notes.

After investigating the interior and exterior of the Washington Street location, officers cleared the scene when they found no evidence of an active threat, the dispatch logs indicate. The entry records the incident as closed following the investigation, with no further enforcement action logged in the same dispatch entry.

The Feb. 20 response was limited to the alarm call and subsequent investigation at the coffee/donut shop on Washington Street; the CrimeRadar logs do not show additional related calls or follow-up incidents tied to that address in the same entry. Claremont police treated the event as an alarm response and concluded there was no ongoing danger to nearby businesses or pedestrians at the time the scene was cleared.