Friday, March 20
Alarms: 0
Building/property checks: 13
Abandoned 911 calls: 4
Vehicle stops, citations: 4
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 1
8:39 a.m. An officer investigated a report of an elderly man hitchhiking on Pitman Road and West Shore Drive.
12:03 p.m. Officers responded to the scene of a two-vehicle crash in the area of Smith Street. Initially, they were unable to locate any accidents in the area. A dispatcher called the person who had reported the accident and learned that both vehicles had already left the area. At approximately 12:39 p.m., the driver who had initially reported the accident came into the police station, and an officer spoke with him and took a report. The man explained that he had been driving on Smith Street towards Pleasant Street and was stopped in a long line of traffic when his vehicle was rear-ended by a pickup truck. The man reported feeling a great deal of pain in his left shoulder, explaining that he had been wearing his seatbelt and was jerked forward (whiplash) when his vehicle got rear-ended. An ambulance was then called to the station to evaluate the man. The man then showed the officer the damage to the rear bumper of his vehicle. The man believed the pickup truck had suffered “bad” front-end damage from the accident. The man stated that when he tried to speak with the other driver, he had a hard time communicating with the man as the man was hearing impaired and was “crying a lot.” The driver then handed the man a phone with the vehicle’s registered owner on the other end of the line, who provided the vehicle and insurance information. The man in the police station had not gotten the other driver’s information before they both left the scene. Once EMTs evaluated the man in the station, he was transported to the hospital for his left shoulder pain.
1:05 p.m. An officer spoke with a father and son regarding the purchase of a 2012 Jeep Liberty from a Salem man that had been arranged on Facebook Messenger. The parties agreed to meet in the parking lot of the Star of the Sea Church on Atlantic Avenue, where the son had been allowed to take possession of the vehicle with the understanding that he would be taking the vehicle to be inspected to ensure that it was safe. Prior to handing over the vehicle, the Salem man signed the title in what is believed to be the name of his father, a New Hampshire resident. No other information was filled out on the title. The Salem man was then given $6,250, the agreed-upon price of the vehicle. The father and son then took the vehicle to Precision Motor Werks, where mechanics found several things wrong, most notably that the fuel tank was secured by a cargo strap, which the father and son believed the Salem man must have known about.. Unhappy with the revelation, they contacted the Salem man and requested their money back. In response, they were told that the money had already been spent, and the vehicle had been sold “as is.” The Salem man subsequently blocked the father and son from any further communication on social media. The father and son felt as though they were victims of a scam, both because the Salem man was not abiding by the state’s Lemon Law and because he had fraudulently signed the title in his father’s name. A dispatcher ran a search of the vehicle identification number and found that the vehicle had not been stolen. The officer planned to forward his report to detectives.
1:20 p.m. An officer met with a man at the police station who wanted to report some past harassment by a former employee.
The man explained that he is an electrician and had last worked with the former employee about two weeks earlier on Spring Street. He told the officer that, after speaking with other employees as well as the foreman for a construction company, they told him that the ex-employee’s behavior had been odd and that things were not working well. This led to the man in the station telling the employee that he no longer wanted him to work for him and that he had not promised anything about future jobs. This caused the ex-employee to grow angry with his boss, and he threatened to leave bad reviews on Google about the man’s business and take some of his workers.
The ex-employee then randomly showed up to a job in Lynn on Thursday and started to cuss out his former boss to his entire crew. He also reportedly tried to steal some of his workers to join another company. The officer advised that he should file a report regarding this incident with Lynn Police as well. The man said he did not want to seek a protective order against his former worker at this time, but he wanted to report these incidents in case he came by again. The officer told him not to contact the worker at all anymore and to call the police if he were to show up to a job site.
2:17 p.m. A tree or branch was reported down on Vassar Road.
3:10 p.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Cornell Road.
3:19 p.m. An officer was approached in the police station lobby by a school crossing guard who had found an electrical soldering tool
kit in an orange canvas bag on the ground unattended near the Veterans Middle School on Pleasant Street. He handed it over to the officer who placed a property tag on the tool kit and locked it into an evidence locker.
3:31 p.m. A complaint about a boat on Marblehead Harbor was reported.
4:07 p.m. Officers investigated a general complaint on West Shore Drive and Green Street.
4:26 p.m. Officers investigated a report of suspicious activity on Lincoln Park.
5:40 p.m. An officer responded to a report of a vehicle crash on Pleasant Street and Mohawk Road but could not locate it.
7:49 p.m. Officers were dispatched to Atlantic Avenue, where a homeowner who had been watching television heard a knock on the window and went out to find a boy who said he had been kidnapped and wanted a ride home. While en route, officers were advised that Lynn Police had requested the local police departments be on the lookout for a missing 10-year-old boy. An officer brought the boy to the station. Once the boy was in the police cruiser, one of the officers asked him if he needed any medical attention or if he was hurt. The boy said he was OK and did not need any medical assistance. Once they were back at the station, an officer brought the boy to an interview room and asked if he knew what town he was in or how he had gotten to his last location. The boy did not know what town he was in and said that he had been kidnapped. The officer then asked if he was picked up in a vehicle and if it had been a man or a woman that he had been with. The boy told the officer that he was unsure how he got to where he was and said a man had taken him. The boy also was unable to describe what the man looked like or tell him if he was in a vehicle or not. Other officers on the shift said they had seen the boy walking around in the area earlier, during daylight hours. The officer waited with the boy until a Lynn officer arrived and took custody of him.
11:16 p.m. An officer went to Doaks Lane to offer assistance with a disabled vehicle.
Saturday, March 21
Alarms: 1
Building/property checks: 16
Abandoned 911 calls: 2
Vehicle stops, citations: 3
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 3
9:40 a.m. An officer spoke with the president of the Marblehead Conservancy regarding an act of vandalism that had occurred in the Wyman Woods conservation area off West Shore Drive. The man had discovered approximately nine trees being cut down in order to make use for bicycle trails on the trail to the left of Camp Shore Lea. Several tools had been left on site, which the man had seized. The man just wanted the incident documented.
9:45 a.m. Officers investigated a general complaint on Pleasant Street.
1:14 p.m. An officer assisted a citizen on Bassett Street.
2:38 p.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Lafayette Street.
2:46 p.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Tedesco Street.
9:11 p.m. A vehicle was towed after a traffic stop on Pleasant Street.
Sunday, March 22
Alarms: 0
Building/property checks: 9
Abandoned 911 calls: 0
Vehicle stops, citations: 0
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 0
11:46 a.m. A wallet was found on Atlantic Avenue.
12:31 p.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Village Street.
5:43 p.m. An officer spoke at the police station with a woman who wanted to report being impersonated by fake accounts on Instagram and Facebook. She explained that her sister has been getting harassed by somebody for months now, which she had reported to the police department in the town where she lived. The woman in the police station had recently learned that what she suspected was the same culprit had created fake accounts using her photograph and was saying nasty things in her native language. The officer advised her to report the fraudulent accounts directly to the social media companies to have them taken down.
Monday, March 23
Alarms: 2
Building/property checks: 6
Abandoned 911 calls: 0
Vehicle stops, citations: 0
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 0
8:33 a.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Ocean Avenue and Pleasant Street.
9:26 a.m. An officer assisted a citizen on Manataug Trail.
(26-339-OF) 1:14 p.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Farrell Court.
2:59 p.m. Officers investigated a general complaint on Front Street.
Tuesday, March 24
Alarms: 1
Building/property checks: 7
Abandoned 911 calls: 2
Vehicle stops, citations: 1
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 1
11:02 a.m. An officer, firefighters and ambulance crew responded to the scene of a vehicle crash on Ocean Avenue.
12:38 p.m. Officers investigated general information provided on Arnold Terrace.
7:23 p.m. An officer investigated general information on Hobart Road.
9:24 p.m. Officers went to Hobart Road to speak with a woman and her father. The woman reported that she had just seen a group of kids with spray paint cans tagging their house. The woman also believed that the group of kids had been talking about her and her family. The girl’s father told the officer that he had been there the whole time, and the incident never happened. The officer advised the woman the police would do some patrols of the neighborhood.
11:51 p.m. Officers investigated the report of a disturbance on Hobart Road but could not locate it.
Wednesday, March 25
Alarms: 0
Building/property checks: 5
Abandoned 911 calls: 2
Vehicle stops, citations: 0
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 1
11:52 a.m. An officer investigated a report of larceny, forgery or fraud on Atlantic Avenue.
12:38 p.m. An officer spoke in the police station lobby with a woman who had been having ongoing problems with her neighbor for years. The woman said that earlier in the day she had gone outside to take pictures from the street of her property line and the curb area, where the neighbor with whom she had problems had planted things in the sidewalk nature strip. As she was attempting to take the photo, the neighbor had yelled at her to hurry up and take the picture, which she felt threatened by. The officer advised the woman that any property line issues were civil matters, and the planting in the nature strip area would be a question for the town highway department. While at the police station, the woman requested a copy of a report from a 2023 incident, which she was given.
1:48 p.m. An officer assisted a citizen on Pitman Road.
2:50 p.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Humphrey Street that proved to be unfounded.
7:31 p.m. An officer spoke at the station with a couple who had shipped two coins minted in 1995 and ones minted in 1907 and 1888, together valued at $6,800, to a man in California. But when the package arrived, the man reported that the coins were not in the package. The couple said they would be notifying the U.S. Postal Service postal inspector about the incident the following day.
9:25 p.m. An officer responded to the scene of a vehicle crash on Community Road.
10:49 p.m. A caller on Broughton Road was given help with a lost passport.
Thursday, March 26
Alarms: 0
Building/property checks: 15
Abandoned 911 calls: 2
Vehicle stops, citations: 0
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 2
12:19 p.m. A crash in which a bicyclist rode into a car was reported on Atlantic Avenue and Casino Road.
12:54 p.m. Officers were dispatched to Steer Swamp to investigate a report of someone doing target practice with a firearm in the area. The officers entered through the Barry Road entrance of the woods, and one of the officers stopped a passerby and asked if they had seen someone with a gun while he was walking the trail. The individual replied “yes” and said it appeared to be a man in his early 20s using a BB gun. The officers proceeded further down the trail until they spotted the man standing off to the side of the trail. The officer then asked the man if he had been using a BB gun, and the man replied “yes.” The man then showed the officer the gun, which was a Ruger U-force break barrel pellet gun. The man had the pellet gun wrapped up in a blue blanket and said he was just doing target practice. The officer then had what he described as a lengthy conversation with the man about using pellet guns in public and suggested he find a safer area where there was no possibility of striking another person. The man said he understood and left the area.
12:56 p.m. A vehicle crash was reported on Pleasant Street and Devereux Terrace.
3:26 p.m. Vandalism was reported on Humphrey Street.
5:27 p.m. An officer spoke with a man in the police station lobby who had discovered the night before that his passport was missing or lost. The man explained that he just needed that fact documented with police for his records.
6:05 p.m. Officers investigated a report of a possible burglary or breaking-and-entering on Casino Road.
Friday, March 27
Alarms: 3
Building/property checks: 14
Abandoned 911 calls: 3
Vehicle stops, citations: 1
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 1
6:05 a.m. Officers investigated a report of suspicious activity on Humphrey Street, which proved to be unfounded.
9:34 a.m. Officers responded to the scene of a minor vehicle crash on Atlantic Avenue.
12:56 p.m. An officer and the police department’s mental health counselor rendered services on Atlantic Avenue.
4:36 p.m. Officers investigated a report of suspicious activity on Pinecliff Drive.
6:10 p.m. Officers investigated a report of shoplifting on Washington Street.
6:42 p.m. An officer responded to the scene of a vehicle crash on Atlantic Avenue.
9 p.m. An officer investigated the report of a disturbance on Seaview Avenue.
Saturday, March 28
Alarms: 0
Building/property checks: 6
Abandoned 911 calls: 0
Vehicle stops, citations: 0
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 1
9:23 a.m. A disturbance was reported on Broughton Road.
11:03 a.m. A citizen was given assistance on Broughton Road.
1:17 p.m. A complaint was made about a moving vehicle on Stramski Way. The vehicle could not be located.
3:43 p.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Gingerbread Hill Road.
4:36 p.m. Police received a general complaint from Broughton Road.
7:19 p.m. A complaint was made about a moving vehicle on West Shore Drive and Lafayette Street.
7:50 p.m. A complaint was made about a moving vehicle on Humphrey and Tedesco streets.
10:20 p.m. Officers investigated a general complaint on Pilgrim Road.
Sunday, March 29
Alarms: 1
Building/property checks: 7
Abandoned 911 calls: 1
Vehicle stops, citations: 0
Vehicle stops, verbal warnings: 0
11:42 a.m. Officers investigated a report of suspicious activity on Waterside and Ramsay roads.
12:26 p.m. An officer spoke with a woman whose name and email address had been used to conduct business with Honeywell. She had already notified the company and had not lost any money but wanted to file a police report, as she had previously been a victim of identity fraud back in 2020.
1:56 p.m. Police received a general complaint from Nicholson Street.
4:48 p.m. An officer investigated a complaint about a moving vehicle on Adams Road and Atlantic Avenue. The vehicle could not be located.
4:51 p.m. An officer investigated a boat complaint on Marblehead Harbor.
6:20 p.m. An officer investigated a general complaint on Front Street.
