The city man state and local police sought last Wednesday in a fruitless Hillside Street SWAT raid that frightened residents has been regularly checking in with a probation officer for months.
Additionally, Worcester police appear to have arrested the man Friday afternoon and listed him on the arrest log as living at a different address than the apartment they raided.
Shane B. Jackson Jr., 36, is listed as living at 120 Southgate St. Apt. 2 in Friday’s police log. A spokesperson for the state probation office also confirmed Friday that, as terms of his pretrial release on an April drug test, Mr. Jackson has been checking in with a probation officer three times a week.
There was no immediate indication Friday that Mr. Jackson had violated probation, the spokesperson said, and his next scheduled hearing in that case is a routine one slated for October.
The office confirmed that people under the eye of probation officers are required to give a valid home address, which probation officers are allowed to visit unannounced at any time. The office is not allowed, however, to publicly disclose that address, the spokesperson said.
Police who arrested Mr. Jackson at 120 Southgate St. Friday entered his address on the log as 120 Southgate St. Apt. 2. The charges of the arrest were driving a vehicle with a revoked or suspended license.
On Aug. 19, Mr. Jackson was the target of a Worcester SWAT team that – at the behest of state police – conducted an unannounced, or “no-knock,” warrant search at 17 Hillside St. Apt. 3. State police wrote in an affidavit that Mr. Jackson lived there and was illegally in possession of two firearms.
The three adults who live in the Hillside Street three-decker apartment – including a mother with two young daughters – say they’ve never seen Mr. Jackson, and that he lived there before they moved in this May. They allege that police stormed the apartment, used vulgarities and required the mother, Marianne Diaz, to kneel naked at gunpoint for minutes clutching her daughters before being allowed to cover up.
State Police Col. Richard D. McKeon told the T&G this week that officers did not hit the wrong location, and that the trooper who applied for the warrant had been led there by “probable cause.” The trooper affidavit attached to the search warrant said the information came from a confidential informant. It did not say whether surveillance was conducted on the home prior to the warrant’s issuance.
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