Basement-Dwelling Animal And Other Items From The Beverly Police Log

• An officer intervened when a clerk at a Rantoul Street business was about to sell a Natural Light beer to a person showing signs of intoxication on Monday night.
• Police assisted a man who got off the commuter rail at the wrong depot on Monday around 11 p.m. – he was taken back to Salem Depot.
• An elderly man was walking in the road on Brimbal Avenue Tuesday afternoon, and was transported back to Hunt Nursing Home in Danvers where he resides.
• Three men were allegedly harassing customers and employees at a Rantoul Street pharmacy on Tuesday around 7 p.m. Officers dispersed the group.
• Officers attempted to get an animal out of a basement on Nelson Avenue around 6 a.m. on Wednesday, but were unable to do so.
• A mailbox was reportedly removed from a wall on Ocean Street on Wednesday morning.
• Officers responded to a Cabot Street residence on a report of loud banging coming from the third floor on Thursday around 3 a.m. They found a man playing videos games got a little loud, but he told police he was done playing for the night.
• Police responded to a loud explosion and strong smell of gas at Haskell Street and Goodwin Road on Thursday around 8 a.m.

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