Testimony From Former MA Police Dispatcher Lost Call In Sandra Birchmore Case

The call came into the Stoughton Police headquarters on January 20, 2021, from Julia Perlin, who was in a dispute with her friend Sandra Birchmore over a $248.00 debt. Stoughton PD dispatcher James Fitton took the call in the presence of a desk officer when Perlin dropped a serious allegation about a department detective, Matthew Farwell, who, she said, had been sexually involved with her friend Birchmore, he told a federal jury Tuesday. Fitton said he put the caller on hold and walked into the detective s office where Farwell was sitting alone and reported what had been said. Farwell s face went dark, Fitton testified, and he immediately got visibly and audibly upset with me.  “His facial expression changed to anger and he told me — including expletives — to never talk about this again, Fitton said on the stand. His supervisor, whom he identified as former Robert E. Letendre, a now-former Stoughton cop who had recently returned to work after being acquitted on a slew of crim