Crime & Safety

Police Log: Police Aid Salem In Bank Robbery

This is an excerpt from the Marblehead Police Log on Thursday, July 15, through Friday, July 16, at 7 a.m.

  • At 1:19 p.m. Thursday, a Sewall Street resident called police after she returned home from a vacation to find someone had siphoned the gas out of her sports utility vehicle and flattened her tire. Police took a report.
  • At 3:21 p.m. Thursday, a Franklin Street resident told police her cable line had been cut in her basement along with her phone and internet. She noted she has read  about an issue in the neighborhood regarding dog feces being left on door steps and that had also happened. She wanted it on record. 
  • At 5:19 p.m. Thursday, a woman called to report a fight in the street on Sunset Road. Police talked to the two males who said they were friends and didn't want to pursue charges. 
  • At 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Marblehead Police helped Salem Police after a bank robbery in their city at St. Joseph Credit Union on Lafayette Street. Police are searching for a male, in his 40s with blondish gray hair. He was wearing a black fishing hat, gray shirt and blue jeans. He showed a note to the teller and fled in an unknown vehicle. No one was found matching the description in Marblehead.
  • At 1:19 a.m. Friday, an anonymous caller told police a baby was crying on Dartmouth Road. When police arrived, the homeowner came out and told police that the baby had fallen back to sleep.

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