Crime & Safety
Found Pencil Case, Aggressive Phone Scam, & More: Marblehead Police Log
Potholes make erratic drivers of us all, someone found a pencil case, and more from the Marblehead Police log.

- Someone found a pencil case while walking near West Shore Drive and turned it into the police station on Thursday around noon.
- Officers responded to a report of a home egged on Wednesday night on Lafayette Street.
- Police took a report of a phone scam on Friday around noon, in which a person repeatedly asked for "Richard," and cussed the resident out when asked who was calling. Officers told the resident that it is a phone scam.
- An "erratic" driver told police that she was trying to avoid potholes on Lafayette Street on Friday around 8 p.m.
- Someone reported a walking aid left on the side of the road on Lafayette Street on Saturday around 11 a.m. Officers couldn't find the walker when they checked the area.
- Police responded to a call of a loud party on Franklin Street on Saturday around 11 p.m. The caller said partygoers "must be on drugs" because of how loud it was. Officers didn't find the noise to be unreasonable.
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