Crime & Safety

Mannequin Break In: Marblehead Police Log

Nigerian scam, invention to keep teens away, and more from the Marblehead Police log.

  • Officers responded to a report of an underage group carrying cases of beer last Friday around 11:30 p.m. on Elmwood Road.
  • Someone called a Marblehead resident claiming to be from Publishing Home of America last Saturday, to say the resident had won a prize. The caller asked if the resident could hear him, and the resident responded "yes," before realizing it was a scam and hanging up.
  • Police responded to a report of a woman in her 70s trying to stop cars going by on Jersey Street last Saturday around 10 a.m. Officers didn't find the woman.
  • Someone reported a driver back up from a parking spot in the area of Commercial Street and Atlantic Avenue last Saturday around noon, and hit a silver Mercedes, causing damage to the front of the car. The driver allegedly got out of the car and put her hands on her head before driving off. The reporting party said the woman came back later.
  • David Douglas Mader, 30, of Marblehead, was arrested on two counts of failing to stop for police last Wednesday around 11:30 a.m.
  • A deceased deer washed up on the beach at Gas House Lane last Thursday around 11 a.m. The DPW were notified to remove the body.
  • Someone reported that they sent $700 to Nigeria via Western Union when trying to find a girlfriend online on Thursday around 3 p.m.
  • Police responded to a report of a man sitting inside a house on Stratford Road while an alarm went off on Friday around 2 p.m. Officers found the "man" was a mannequin.
  • Officers unplugged a device on a Waldron Court back porch designed to make a noise to keep teens away after people complained it was driving dogs crazy and hurting people's ears on Friday around 6:30 p.m.
  • Janet M. Mcnulty Newman, 66, of Marblehead, was arrested on charges of drunken driving and reckless driving after a car accident in the area of Tedesco Street on Friday around 9 p.m.
  • Someone stole cash from two unlocked cars on Ruby Terrace sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning.

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