Crime & Safety

Go Karts, Unexpected Guest: Marblehead Police Log

Police cleared the middle school after a vague bomb threat on a bathroom wall, and more from the Marblehead Police log.

  • Police got a call about a man trying car door handles on Devereux Street on Wednesday, March 8, around 10 a.m. Officers didn't find the man.
  • Officers received a report of kids riding go karts in the roadway on Harbor View Lane last Wednesday afternoon.
  • Someone brought a found wristlet from penguin fabric with lip balm and $32 in cash inside to the police station.
  • Police took a report of water pouring out of an unoccupied house on Seaview Avenue last Wednesday night. The water was shut off.
  • Police responded to Chestnut Street on Sunday morning on a report of an unknown man staying in a guest bedroom. The man later couldn't find his jacket and keys.
  • Someone reported a phone scam in which two people called him, one pretending to be his grandson, and one pretending to be a New York police officer on Monday afternoon. The "grandson" claimed he was arrested, and needed $4,000. Dispatch called the number given, and the person who answered hung up when asked if he was a police officer.
  • Someone was worried that they may have accidentally dropped their bag in the drug destruction box on Monday around 6 p.m. The bag was found at home.
  • Police responded to a report of a bomb threat at Marblehead Veterans Middle School on Wednesday afternoon, after graffiti was found on a boys' bathroom wall making "nonspecific references to bombs."
  • Officers responded to a report of a suspicious man in glasses with some kind of iPad on Wednesday around 6 p.m. Police found it was a representative from the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group.

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