Excerpts From the Beverly Police Log

• An officer responded to a report of a person passing out political pamphlets on Sunday afternoon. The woman was handing out pamphlets on Question 3 (the question on free-range chickens), and said the caller on Lake Shore Avenue started yelling at her and grabbed her cell phone and threw it on the ground. Police told the caller not to grab anything from anybody.
• Robert Earl Melanson, 21, of Lynn, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest on Tuesday around 1 a.m. on Rantoul Street.
• Officers responded to Dodge Street on Monday around 10:30 p.m. on a report of a loud argument.
• A man reportedly left his phone in a cab when he ran before paying his fare on Tuesday around 4 a.m.
• Officers report to an assault on Cabot Street on Tuesday around 3 p.m. The caller said an unknown man punched him in the face after he said he had no cigarettes.

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