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Sept. 14
9:26 a.m. — A Madison Road resident reported an alleged scam involving a $50 lamp she was trying to sell on Facebook Marketplace. Officer Adam Mastrangelo was dispatched to Madison Road, where the woman told him she had been contacted out of the blue about the lamp by a phone number she said she had never given out. The caller allegedly offered to send her $500 through Venmo, saying that was the least that could be sent from a business account, and asked her to send back the $450 difference once the money arrived. When the payment came through, it was declined, and someone claiming to be from Venmo customer service then called her. The resident said she gave that person access to her computer but soon ended the interaction and shut the computer off, at which point she realized it was a scam. She had already notified her bank. Mastrangelo advised her to contact the credit agencies, have her computer checked for malware at Apple and let police know if anything else happens. The report classifies the matter as an attempt to commit a crime, and the case remains open.
9:56 a.m. — A Schooner Ridge resident reported that the front license plate was allegedly stolen off her white 2021 Jeep Renegade. Officer Charles Sweeney was dispatched to the station lobby to take the report. The woman told Sweeney she had checked the places the Jeep had been recently in case the plate had fallen off, but it was not on the ground anywhere. Sweeney advised her to contact the state Registry of Motor Vehicles and request new plates, and said the plate would be listed as stolen. A stolen motor vehicle report was completed, and the plate number was entered into the National Crime Information Center database. The report classifies the matter as larceny under $1,200, and the case remains open.
7:19 p.m. — An Elm Place resident reported that the front license plate has been missing from her green Subaru Forester since Aug. 16. Officer Robert Picariello was dispatched to the station lobby to take the report. The woman told Picariello the rear plate is still on the car. Dispatch ran the plate, and it had not been run or involved in anything police could see since it went missing. According to the report, there was no reason to believe the plate had been stolen, and the resident wanted it on record before contacting the registry for a replacement. The report lists the plate as lost property and notes no crime was involved.
Sept. 17
11:46 a.m. — A Rowland Street resident reported a suspicious package. Officer Brandon Boutilier responded to Rowland Street, where the man said a package addressed to him, but sent to his sister’s address on the same street, arrived and he opened it that day. Inside was a clear zip-lock bag that appeared to have contained feces. The label listed the sender as “A.S Enterprises,” and when Boutilier searched the name online with the resident, it appeared to be a prank website that sends feces as a “gag gift.” The bottom of the package was marked “COW1QRT,” which may refer to cow manure, according to the report. The resident told Boutilier he has no known enemies and no idea who would send it. He said he would dispose of the package, and Boutilier documented the incident. The report notes no crime was involved.
9:13 p.m. — A Meadow Lane resident reported that someone had been punching his front door. Officer Dean Peralta was dispatched to Meadow Lane, where the man said he and his family were inside when they heard loud banging on the front door. He said he knew what it was, ran out the side door and saw a boy he estimated to be about 12 running up Meadow Lane and into a nearby apartment complex. The resident said the whole neighborhood has been having problems for months with a handful of children who allegedly bully other children and throw water balloons and rocks at people walking by, and that he has been trying to identify them without success. Peralta patrolled the neighborhood and checked an apartment complex on Creesy Street but did not see anyone matching the description. The report, portions of which were redacted, notes no crime was involved.
Sept. 20
7:52 a.m. — A Lincoln Avenue resident reported that an Amazon package delivered to her home had writing on it that appeared to be biblical. Officer Christian Hennigar responded to Lincoln Avenue, where the woman told him she felt unsettled because she was not sure whether someone was targeting her, and she wanted police documentation. She said she was also concerned that the package had been delivered at 9 p.m. the night before, which she considered an unusual time to receive one. Hennigar advised her to contact Amazon about the package and said her statements would be documented. The report notes no crime was involved.
Sept. 21
5:32 p.m. — A driver came to the police station to report a hit-and-run that had just happened in the Village Plaza parking lot on Pleasant Street. Officer Robert Picariello took the report. The man told Picariello he was pulling straight into a parking space when a vehicle in the opposite row, instead of pulling straight out, backed up across several empty spaces toward him. He stopped because he could not tell what the other driver was doing and honked to get the driver’s attention, but the vehicle allegedly backed into his anyway, damaging the front driver’s side bumper. The other vehicle left while he was looking at the damage. He could not get a registration number or model and could say only that the car was black and was driven by an elderly woman. A separate accident report was filed. The case, listed as leaving the scene of property damage, remains open.
Sept. 22
6:30 a.m. — Officers Taylor Nolasco and Daniel Gagnon were dispatched to Lighthouse Lane for a report of someone sleeping in a bathroom at Chandler Hovey Park. The caller told Nolasco the person was in the women’s restroom. Opening the door, Nolasco found a bag by the entrance and, behind it, a man asleep in a sleeping bag. Once woken, the man said he was visiting from France and had booked an Airbnb in town but arrived too late to get in, so he looked for somewhere warm to spend the night. A check through dispatch turned up nothing. Nolasco told him he was not allowed to sleep in the bathroom and suggested he contact the Airbnb owner about getting into the home. The man packed up his belongings and left. The report notes no crime was involved.
Sept. 24
6:48 a.m. — Officer Samuel Rizos was dispatched to Elm Street at Cowell Street for a report of a knife found in the street. Rizos found a broken kitchen glass and, about 15 feet farther down the street, a large wood-handled kitchen knife. According to the report, the glass had a brown stain on it, as if a liquid had sat in it for a long time, and the knife had a similar stain, as if it had been in the glass when both broke. Rizos placed the knife in an evidence locker and notified Detective Sgt. Sean Brady, and the highway department was called to clean up the broken glass. The report lists the knife as found property valued at $10 and notes no crime was involved.
Sept. 26
11:50 a.m. — Officer Charles Sweeney was dispatched to West Shore Drive for a report of a tree down on a roof. Sweeney found a tree limb on the roof of a home and documented it because it was not known whether the tree belonged to the town. The report notes no crime was involved.
1:46 p.m. — A caller reported concern for the well-being of an MBTA bus driver on Ocean Avenue, saying the bus had nearly struck a road median and was speeding up and slowing down frequently. Officer Christian Hennigar responded with Lt. Jason Conrad, who had pulled the bus over at the intersection of Ocean and Atlantic avenues. Conrad had Hennigar board the bus to talk with the driver and make sure no medical issue was occurring. Hennigar told the driver police had received a call from a concerned witness and were checking on him. The driver said he had been driving for the MBTA for about seven months. Hennigar told him he was all set to carry on with his day. The report notes no crime was involved.
Sept. 28
7:23 a.m. — A man walking in the area of Pond and Lime streets reported that a driver allegedly confronted him after nearly hitting him in a crosswalk. Officer Nicholas Fratini spoke with the man, who said he was crossing Lime Street in the crosswalk when a dark blue or black Volvo drove around him and sped down Lime Street. He shook his head at the driver, who allegedly rolled down his window and called him a profanity followed by “Karren,” as the report spells it. The pedestrian said that as he kept walking down Pond Street, the driver came back around, pulled over and got out to confront him, approaching in an aggressive manner. Fearing he would be hit, the pedestrian said, he shoved the driver away, and the driver returned to the Volvo and left. A traffic supervisor told Fratini he saw the driver of a black or blue Volvo pull over, aggressively approach the man and get shoved away. The report notes no crime was involved.
11:57 a.m. — A Lattimer Street resident reported that a man who allegedly claimed to be from Apple had been calling him frequently, saying his account was in danger and that he needed the resident’s debit card information to pay to have it fixed. Officer Brandon Boutilier was dispatched to Lattimer Street, where the resident said he first noticed a charge of 82 cents on his Santander Bank account and, a day later, an attempted charge of $500. Realizing it did not seem legitimate, he went to Santander, reported the charges and had the account and its debit card closed. He told Boutilier he was so unnerved about having given out the card information that he opened a new Santander account and also froze his account at Northern Bank and Trust. He said he was not out any money because he believed Santander would cover the $500 charge. A records search on the caller’s number found nothing. Boutilier advised him to consider temporarily freezing his credit with the three major credit bureaus and to keep monitoring his accounts. The report lists the debit card charges as stolen property valued at $500.82 and classifies the matter as larceny by false pretense under $1,200. The case remains open.
Sept. 29
12:25 p.m. — A Farrell Court resident reported that his bicycle was allegedly stolen. Officer Brandon Boutilier was dispatched to Farrell Court, where the man said he had ridden to Fountain Park that morning and, at about 11:30 a.m., left the bike unlocked, leaning against the brick wall by the bike rack around the corner from his unit. When he came back outside at about 12:30 p.m., it was gone. He described it as a gray Trek with black lettering and mountain bike tires and estimated its value at about $2,000. Boutilier searched the surrounding area for the bike and told the resident to call the station if he remembered anything else. The report classifies the matter as larceny over $1,200, and the case remains open.
Oct. 1
9:22 a.m. — An Ocean Avenue resident reported that someone allegedly keyed his Tesla between 3 and 6 p.m. the day before. Officer Adam Mastrangelo was dispatched to the station lobby to take the report and noted having met with the man Sept. 21 about several rocks displaced along his front sidewalk, which the resident had found odd. The resident said the car had been parked parallel across his driveway, blocking it, and that its Sentry Mode camera feature was not on at the time. He told Mastrangelo he is not having problems with anyone. He said he would keep Sentry Mode on from now on and that he and a neighbor would be installing surveillance cameras. The report classifies the matter as malicious destruction of property over $1,200. Mastrangelo forwarded the case to the department’s Criminal Investigation Division, and it remains open.
2:21 p.m. — A Leicester Road resident reported possible identity theft after receiving a U-Haul truck rental contract at his work email address. Officer Nicholas Michaud went to Leicester Road, where the man showed him a printout of the contract, which was for a truck rented the day before. It listed an old address, two old phone numbers and his current work email, he said, but the credit card on the contract was not his. He told Michaud he tried calling the U-Haul rental center in Abington, Massachusetts, but was redirected to a national line, and U-Haul’s corporate office would not give him any details beyond his own information. A district manager also would not share details, the resident said, other than that the driver’s license attached to the rental belonged to a woman. The contract also showed an employee discount, according to the report. The resident said he had frozen his credit reports and contacted his bank, and Michaud advised him to file a report with the Federal Trade Commission. The report classifies the matter as identity fraud, and the case remains open.
Oct. 2
10:22 a.m. — Officer Dean Peralta was dispatched to Atlantic Avenue for a report of the contents of a vehicle dumped on the sidewalk. Peralta found a spare tire and plastic bags filled with water bottles, candy and paperwork, all of which appeared to have been thrown out of a vehicle’s trunk. Paperwork in one of the bags included a name and phone number, and dispatch called the number. The man who answered said his vehicle had been stolen from an auto body shop in Lynn, Massachusetts, and he was advised to report it to Lynn police immediately. Peralta gathered the property and brought it to the police station. A neighbor told Peralta she heard metal banging outside and, looking out the window, saw a gray vehicle driving inbound on Atlantic Avenue, though she did not see who was driving. The report notes no crime was involved.
10:23 a.m. — A Broughton Road resident reported that a woman allegedly made a kicking motion toward her dog at Hobbs Playground. Officer Neil Comeau was dispatched to Broughton Road, where the resident was waiting outside her home. She said she was at the playground with her son and their two dogs when a woman she did not know, wearing a black shirt and red-and-white striped cotton pants, began yelling at her that dogs were not allowed in the park. As she was packing up, the resident said, one of her two dogs — “small well mannered dogs,” in the report’s words — slipped away and ran to a tree to relieve itself. The other woman then allegedly scooped up her own child and made a kicking motion toward the dog. The resident acknowledged the dog was barking at the woman but said it was not being aggressive and did not warrant an attempted kick. She said she had told dispatch she could not stay at the playground to make the report because her son was getting fussy. Comeau went to the playground to get the other woman’s account, but she had already left. The report notes no crime was involved.
3:16 p.m. — A boat captain reported that his inflatable dinghy was allegedly stolen from the dock behind the Marblehead Yacht Club off Cliff Street. Officer Brandon Boutilier met with him at the docks the next day, Oct. 3, at about 12:30 p.m. The man said he tied up his 8-foot Achilles inflatable dinghy, which had a black 5-horsepower Mercury motor, to ring 7 of the dock at about 1 p.m., and that it was gone when he returned at about 1:30 p.m. He told Boutilier that as a boat captain he ties good knots, and he believed the dinghy did not drift free but was untied and taken. He said he took the launch out and searched the harbor without finding it, and the harbormaster told him it did not have the dinghy and had not seen it. Inside the dinghy were a green hand towel, a red gas can and a blue quart of two-cycle oil. There appeared to be no cameras near the spot. The report classifies the matter as larceny over $1,200. Boutilier forwarded the case to the department’s Criminal Investigation Division, and it remains open.
3:28 p.m. — An Edgemere Road homeowner reported that a neighbor allegedly had two shrubs on their shared property line cut in half. Officer Samuel Rizos was dispatched to Edgemere Road, where the woman showed him the bushes. She said the owner of the house next door, who does not live there and rents it to what she described as “a nice lady,” had for some reason had the shrubs trimmed in half, cutting off the part hanging over his side. Rizos advised her that it was a civil matter involving the property line and that it would be documented. The report lists the two bushes as property valued at $10 and notes no crime was involved.
6:20 p.m. — While on patrol on Washington Street, Officer Samuel Rizos saw an MBTA bus hit a parked car. According to the report, the bus was making a left turn around the Old Town House when its right rear bumper struck the driver’s side door of an unoccupied Tesla parked on Washington Street. The Tesla had moderate damage to the door and the front bumper area but could still be driven, and the bus had minor scraping along its right rear panel. Dispatch reached the Tesla’s owner, who arrived shortly after, and an MBTA starter also came to the scene. Both parties exchanged information and were told the report would be on file at the police station. The report notes no crime was involved.
Oct. 3
3:13 p.m. — A Seaview Avenue resident reported possible telephone fraud. Officer Sean Sweeney was dispatched to Seaview Avenue and met with the woman and her family. She told Sweeney a caller claiming to be from the TD Bank fraud division asked for banking information, including her account numbers. She said she did not know the numbers, and the caller was very forceful in trying to convince her that he needed them, in a call that lasted several hours. She never gave out any banking information. Her granddaughter looked up the number, which came back to a person in Easley, South Carolina, and when her daughter tried calling it back, the number appeared to have been blocked. Sweeney advised the resident to keep a close eye on her accounts and to report any new fraudulent activity to police. The report notes no crime was involved.
8:23 p.m. — Officer Samuel Rizos was dispatched to Allerton Place for a report of a car alarm that had been sounding for days. On arrival, Rizos found six to eight neighbors pointing to a 2010 Honda CR-V parked at the corner of Brackett Place. The car alarm was not going off, and the car was locked. Two of the neighbors told Rizos they had already called a tow truck, which was on its way. Rizos told them they could not have a car towed from a public street because its alarm had been going off. Rizos then spoke with Lt. Eric Osattin, the officer in charge, who noted the street was public and approved towing the car for a reason redacted from the report. The neighbors canceled their tow company, and dispatch sent Todisco Towing, which removed the plates for police but could not get into the car to inventory it. The report, portions of which were redacted, notes no crime was involved.
Oct. 6
10:39 a.m. — An Atlantic Avenue resident reported that about 1,000 euros, or roughly $1,139, allegedly went missing from his home. Officer Charles Sweeney was dispatched to the station lobby to take the report. The man told Sweeney he and his wife came home from Europe within the past month with the euros and put the money in a box in a room for the time being. When he went to get it weeks later, he said, it was all gone, and the only people who had access to that room were his cleaners. He said he had since fired the cleaning service and reported the matter to the company’s owner, who denied that any of her employees took the money. Sweeney asked him to send the cleaning service’s information so it could be attached to the report. The resident said he understood that, without evidence, there was not much that could be done, but he wanted it documented. The report classifies the matter as larceny under $1,200, and the case remains open.
1:34 p.m. — Two Pleasant Street residents reported that a fence company allegedly cashed their $4,380 deposit but never did the work. Officer Brandon Boutilier spoke with the man and woman in the station lobby, where they said they signed a sales slip with Sentry Fence Co. on Aug. 7 for a job that was supposed to be done the day before, Oct. 5. The job was never done and no refund came, they said, and calls to the business line and to the job foreman’s company cellphone went unanswered. That day, they said, they found the company’s Peabody, Massachusetts, location locked, and the auto body shop next door told them the company had shut down. Boutilier could not reach anyone on the business line, and the shop next door told him the company was being sold and everyone had been laid off. Shortly after, the woman called the station to say she had received a text from a man saying customers would get their deposits back that week. Boutilier called the number and spoke with the man, who said a company was buying out his business and his attorney was arranging full refunds for a few customers, including the two residents, by the end of the week. Boutilier passed that along and told them to contact police again if they are not paid by the next week. The report notes no crime was involved.
Oct. 8
1:40 p.m. — A Foss Terrace homeowner reported a dispute with a guest at the accessory dwelling he built beside his house and rents out on Vrbo. Officer Charles Sweeney was dispatched to Foss Terrace, where the owner said the renter had allegedly violated the rental’s policy by having his wife and dog stay with him. He said he tried to confront the renter about it, they argued, and the rental company advised him to call police. The renter told Sweeney the owner had confronted him about his dog and his wife staying with him, and the report, in a partly redacted passage, says the argument was caused by the owners allegedly filming through the windows. Sweeney advised the owner that he could not kick the renter out, which the owner said he knew, and told him to stay away from the renters because the policy issues were a civil matter. Before leaving, Sweeney also told the renter that the dispute was civil and that he was welcome to stay until the rental ended. The report, portions of which were redacted, notes no crime was involved.
8:15 p.m. — An Elm Street resident reported a loud bang on her front door. Officers Christian Hennigar and Robert Picariello responded to Elm Street, where the woman told Hennigar she was watching TV with friends when they heard the bang. When she opened the door, she said, a group of males was running away yelling an expletive and “daddy.” Hennigar said the area would be checked and advised her to call police if the group came back. The report notes no crime was involved.
Oct. 9
10:42 a.m. — A Broughton Road resident reported a strange text message. Officer Adam Mastrangelo was dispatched to the station lobby, where the woman showed him a text she received at 10:38 a.m. that read, “I hear something about someone kill someone in Marblehead.” She had replied, “whos this?” Mastrangelo immediately advised her to block the number, which she did, and dispatch looked it up, finding it belonged to a man from Revere, Massachusetts. It was ultimately determined that the man was a friend of the resident’s whose number she had lost. The report notes no crime was involved.
Oct. 12
11:03 a.m. — A man who keeps a boat at a Redstone Lane boatyard reported that two men there allegedly told him to get it out or they would burn it down. Officer Robert Picariello was dispatched to the police station to take the walk-in report. The man said he has kept the boat at the yard for several years and is now healthy enough to start fixing it up so he can move it out. He said the remark struck him as odd because he had a boat burn down in Salem, Massachusetts, last year. He wanted it on record in case anything happens to the boat. The report notes no crime was involved.
Oct. 13
12:51 p.m. — An Atlantic Avenue market owner reported that a customer crashed a car into the back of his store at about 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Officer Brandon Boutilier took the report in the station lobby. The owner said the driver mistakenly stepped on the accelerator, damaging a 5-by-5-foot section of the back exterior wall and, inside, the walk-in beer refrigerator. He told Boutilier the two had already exchanged information, he had all her contact information and they had been in touch, and he wanted the crash documented for insurance. Boutilier told him a copy of the report would be available at the station if needed. The report notes no crime was involved.
2:16 p.m. — A Nahant Street man brought police a letter, addressed to his wife and purportedly from Banco Aliado in Panama City, Panama, stating that he had died and that a life insurance policy worth $18.9 million needed to be claimed. Officer Christian Hennigar met him in the station lobby, where the man, very much alive, said the letter was a scam and that neither he nor his wife had ever contacted the bank. He said he had not lost any money and had been monitoring his bank accounts. He told Hennigar he was not worried but wanted it documented. The report notes no crime was involved.
2:27 p.m. — A Prospect Street resident reported that her 2025 Hyundai Palisade was damaged by an exposed water pipe at a construction detail site. Officer Brandon Boutilier took the report in the station lobby. The woman said she was driving on Prospect Street near Barnard Street, across from Precision Motor Werks, when she hit an exposed pipe with a bolt attached that popped her right front tire. She said the pipe was not marked by the contractor, Granese. Officers at the site helped her, she said, and Precision Motor Werks gave her a spare tire. She told Boutilier she was still waiting to hear back from Granese about insurance information so she could be reimbursed for the damage. Boutilier said the incident would be documented and that a copy of the report would be available for insurance purposes. The report notes no crime was involved.
Oct. 14
12:55 p.m. — A boat owner reported over the phone that his boat was damaged in Marblehead Harbor during a recent nor’easter. Officer Christian Hennigar took the report. The owner said two chunks of fiberglass had been broken off the starboard side of his white 23-foot Mako. He told Hennigar he suspected one of two boats: a Grady-White center console that came loose from its mooring and drifted through the harbor before getting tangled with a green sailboat on the mooring next to his, and the sailboat itself, which eventually broke off its mooring as well. He said he wanted the damage documented for insurance. The report notes no crime was involved.
7:04 p.m. — A Powder House Court resident reported that a group of children banged on his door and shined flashlights into his windows. Officer Charles Sweeney was dispatched to Powder House Court, where the man said he went outside and the group ran off toward Creesy Street. By then, Officer Robert Picariello had already searched the area and could not find the group. The report notes no crime was involved.
Oct. 15
6:37 a.m. — A Nanepashemet Street resident reported hearing what he believed was an object falling over at about 5:30 a.m. Officer Daniel Gagnon was dispatched to Nanepashemet Street, where the man said he stayed in bed for several minutes after hearing the sound before checking. He told Gagnon all the doors were locked and nothing looked out of place, and he mentioned that a few workers had been at the home working on the exterior deck. He also said an aide would be arriving shortly. Gagnon checked the property and saw no signs of a break-in from the outside. The report notes no crime was involved.
2:05 p.m. — A Conant Road resident reported that a neighbor’s unleashed dog allegedly jumped on her. Officer Christian Hennigar responded to Conant Road, where the woman said the neighbor has a long history of letting his dog out of the house without a leash, and that several other neighbors have made similar complaints about the dog chasing people. She said that as she was walking her own dog home, the neighbor’s dog, which was unleashed in its driveway, ran out and jumped on her. She told Hennigar she wanted the incident documented, along with what she described as the ongoing problem of the dog running off the property. Hennigar documented her statements and forwarded the report to the animal control officer. The report, portions of which were redacted, notes no crime was involved.
