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The following arrests were made recently by local police departments. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The following arrests were made recently by local police departments. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The following arrests were made recently by local police departments. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

LOWELL — Within hours it was over. The so-called Dog Park homeless encampment in Centralville off First Street Boulevard, that has existed in some form for 10 years, was gone. Not only gone, it was obliterated in a coordinated action by city services Monday morning.

LOWELL — Robert Waylein has lived in the so-called Dog Park camp for 10 years. For almost 4,000 nights, he has laid his head down in a shelter he built on land he says he cleaned and has maintained that used to function as an open-air garbage dump.

Massachusetts outreach workers say the housing crisis is pushing more people to homelessness, many of them living in encampments.

The following arrests were made recently by local police departments. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.