{"id":15384,"date":"2022-08-11T06:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T06:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/peabody-officer-arrested-on-home-invasion-charges-news\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T06:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T06:40:59","slug":"peabody-officer-arrested-on-home-invasion-charges-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=15384","title":{"rendered":"Peabody officer arrested on home invasion charges |  news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>PEABODY \u2014 A Peabody police officer is on leave following his arrest and charge of breaking into a person&#8217;s home in Lynn.<\/p>\n<p>James Festa, a 13-year veteran of the Peabody force, was arrested Wednesday morning by Lynn police, according to the Essex District Attorney&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a residence at 10:45 a.m. by a person who reported Festa had broken into a home and refused to leave, the district attorney&#8217;s office said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Festa, 45, is charged with felony trespassing during the day putting a person in fear, a felony.<\/p>\n<p>He was held without bail overnight after his arraignment Wednesday afternoon in Lynn District Court, where he will return Thursday for a dangerousness hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Festa was placed on administrative leave with pay, and Peabody Chief Tom Griffin has ordered an internal investigation, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Before becoming a police officer, Festa worked in Essex County as a bailiff.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/news\/peabody-officer-arrested-on-charge-of-breaking-into-home\/article_8de7ddd4-18f8-11ed-818c-af72fe9afee0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEABODY \u2014 A Peabody police officer is on leave following his arrest and charge of breaking into a person&#8217;s home in Lynn. James Festa, a 13-year veteran of the Peabody force, was arrested Wednesday morning by Lynn police, according to the Essex District Attorney&#8217;s office. Police were called to a residence at 10:45 a.m. by a person who reported Festa had broken into a home and refused to leave, the district attorney&#8217;s office said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. Festa, 45, is charged with felony trespassing during the day putting a person in fear, a felony. He was held without&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}