Crime & Safety
Rapping Too Loudly: Beverly Police Log
Loud rapping, chalk writings, and more from the Beverly Police log.

- Beverly Police assisted State Police last Friday around midnight after a report of a wrong way driver on Route 128 south near Exit 18.
- Daniel P. Clarke, 27, of Dorchester, was arrested on Saturday around 2 p.m. on charges of possession of a class E drug and violating a city ordinance regarding knives and weapons after a traffic stop on Dodge Street.
- Officers responded to a report of a disturbance at a Rantoul Street apartment on Friday before midnight. The resident was alone, and said he was rapping.
- Police took a report of kids throwing snow balls at a building on Rantoul Street on Saturday afternoon.
- A newspaper machine was knocked down in front of a Cabot Street bank on Sunday around 5:45 a.m. blocking the sidewalk. The machine was put back up, and did not appear to be damaged.
- Someone called Beverly Hospital on Sunday around 6 p.m. and made a bomb threat. Massachusetts State Police responded, but the threat was unfounded.
- A passenger smoking weed in a car tried to hide the marijuana in a purse during a traffic stop on Monday around 1 p.m. on Blaine Avenue. Officers disposed of the marijuana and gave a verbal warning.
- Police responded to Tozer Road on Monday around 6 p.m. for a report of a couch and other items stolen during a move.
- Officers emptied roughly 5o lbs of medications from the medication disposal unit at the police station on Monday around 9:30 p.m.
- An officer noticed chalk writing on several crosswalks and sidewalks along Cabot Street on Tuesday around 2:30 a.m.
- Police confiscated a 2 foot glass bong, pipes, and marijuana on Tuesday around 11 p.m. after suspicious activity was reporting in a parked car on Ober Street.
- A woman refused to leave the Elliott Street McDonald's after it closed at 11 p.m. on Wednesday, but an officer convinced her it wasn't too cold to go outside. The woman was transported to the hospital.
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