Mansfield man, West Bridgewater woman arrested after abandoning crash-damaged truck in Foxborough, fleeing into woods

FOXBOROUGH — On Thursday, May, 7, 2026, at approximately 2:00 p.m., Officer Korey Goldrick of the Foxborough Police Department was dispatched to Route 140 before Walnut Terrace following a report of a single-vehicle crash.

(The account and quotations in this article were sourced from the printed Personnel Narrative of Officer Korey Goldrick and do not reflect any political perspective or personal opinion of News Link Live, which is strictly a business entity.)

Officer Goldrick said the caller reported that two people ran from the vehicle into the woods along Route 140, and that one appeared to be wearing an orange T-shirt.

“Upon arrival, there was an abandoned black GMC Sierra (FL Reg. XXXXXX) located on the side of Route 140 with immense front-end damage,” Officer Goldrick said. “There were no occupants in sight, fire rescue was notified to come and cleared the vehicle for possible smoke.”

At this time, Sergeant Shawn Buckley and Detective Patrick Lydon arrived on scene to deploy a drone. K-9 Officer Kurt Pollister and K-9 Max also responded to begin searching the wooded area.

“I opened the truck and was able to find an old driving citation that was made out to a James Mulkern,” Officer Goldrick said.

According to police, James L. Mulkern, 37, is a resident of Mansfield, MA.

“I relayed this information to SEMRECC [Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Emergency Communications Center] for a possible suspect,” Officer Goldrick said. “SEMRECC relayed that this party had two warrants.”

At around this time, multiple Massachusetts State Police troopers arrived on scene to assist.

“At the time, we had believed that this vehicle may have been involved in a crash on the highway and exited off onto Route 140,” Officer Goldrick said. State police told Officer Goldrick they had no information or calls related to that possibility.

According to Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux, “Accidents involving a hit-and-run incident occur roughly 900,000 times annually, claiming as many as 2,800 lives each year, and accordingly, police must take these events very seriously. Hit-and-run accidents account for 15% of all reported motor vehicle crashes.”

“One state trooper stated that he did find what appeared to be debris from this vehicle located off of the exit ramp on Route 140,” Officer Goldrick said. He added that Officers Melissa O’Connor and James Cannata arrived at Walnut Terrace, off Route 140, and watched the wooded area in case anyone came out.

“Officer O’Connor alerted us on radio that she had two parties exiting the wooded area,” Officer Goldrick said.

Officer Goldrick, Sergeant Buckley, and the state troopers then drove to Walnut Terrace to meet Officer O’Connor and Officer Cannata with the two parties.

“There was a male party and a female party who stated they did not have any form of identification,” Officer Goldrick said. “They began giving multiple names and dates of birth that were not theirs. Lieutenant [Adam] Byrnes arrived on scene at this time; both parties were Mirandized and detained.”

Officer Goldrick said the man gave a false name, “Matthew O’Brien,” and said he was coming from work at Clemmy, Inc., in Mansfield.

“State police spoke with the owner of Clemmy and asked if they had a Matthew O’Brien working for them, they stated they did not,” Officer Goldrick said. “They then asked Clemmy company if they had a James Mulkern working for them today and they confirmed they did.”

Officer Goldrick said that after giving several names, the man eventually confirmed to Lieutenant Byrnes that his name was James Mulkern and provided his actual date of birth.

“Mr. Mulkern was taken into custody for having two straight warrants,” Officer Goldrick said. Mulkern was then transported to the Foxborough Police Department for booking.

“The female on scene continued to give false names and DOBs for her person,” Officer Goldrick said. “At this time Sergeant Allen and Officer Cannata had gone back to the abandoned vehicle and were able to find an EBT card there with a female’s name on it.”

The EBT card had the name of 37-year-old Alyssa Richards on it.

Officer Goldrick said he ran Richards’ name and date of birth through IMC, a police records system, and confirmed the woman was Alyssa Richards.

According to police, Alyssa K. Richards, 37, is a resident of West Bridgewater, MA.

“Ms. Richards was taken into custody for having a default warrant, and transported by myself to the station for the booking process,” Officer Goldrick said.

Officer Cannata and Sergeant Allen stayed on scene to inventory the vehicle.

During the inventory, the officers found seven cards with Mulkern’s name on them, along with two Massachusetts IDs belonging to him. Once the inventory was complete, Auto Rescue Towing and Recovery towed the vehicle from the scene.

“Both parties were both transported back to the police station and put through the booking process,” Officer Goldrick said. He added that while conducting the property inventory, Mulkern was found to be in possession of gabapentin.

“He will be charged with Class E drug possession as well as the straight warrants arrest,” Officer Goldrick said. “He also had an orange/red t-shirt that was disclosed to dispatch from the caller, it was in his backpack. After confirming once again with state police that there was no incident of an accident, there will be no further charges for the vehicle.”

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Disclaimer: If you are wondering why the incident in this story took place in May, that’s because I had to file FOIA request(s) to obtain the court documents. FOIAs are time-consuming.

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