Crime & Safety

A Busy Sunday: Dogwalkers, Glass, and a Slick on the Water: Marblehead Police logs

Read the Marblehead Police Logs from Aug. 20.

MARBLEHEAD—The following are highlights from the Marblehead Police Department Logs for August 20.

Sunday, Aug. 20

  • A woman on Laurel Court reported breaking glass and yelling next door, calling it a frequent event. A son, unclear from reports as to whose, was having friends over.
  • The Fire Department was anonymously called about a sheen on the water. The location is near the Landing on Front Street. The Harbormaster, Coast Guard, and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection were notified. One investigator spoke to several boaters and fishermen in the area and alleged not one saw a slick. He was given the names and numbers of the people attached for USCG and DEP - unclear if they called dispatch or dispatch notified them. Follow up was taken and the claim unfounded.
  • Officers responded to a woman complaining about contractors disturbing her with loud noise. Officers found the contractors to be packing up.
  • A man on Rainbow Road reported his wife has a fever and was having complications from diabetes. She was transported to Mass. General in an ambulance.
  • A man reported his son having violated the terms of his parole by not coming home. The son was found at Seaside Park and picked up by his father.
  • A woman on Winthrop Avenue called saying she was doing yardwork at her mother's home and there was glass on the lawn. She wanted to know if it was a problem other people had been having. She just wanted it logged in case there is a pattern of the same incidents.
  • Police were called over a dogwalker walking around Taft Street. The caller reported a male in his 30's wearing a green shirt and black shorts on a cell phone just walking around the neighborhood - he was also barefoot.

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