Crime & Safety
Suspicious Leftovers, Boat Problems: Marblehead Police Log
Suspicious joggers, maggots, and more from the Marblehead Police log.

- Someone called police on Thursday around 11 a.m. to report a car that had "hovered" around the caller's property. The caller followed the car to Nanepashemet Street where the people got out and started jogging, which the caller found suspicious. Police found the joggers were friends of the caller's neighbor.
- Someone walked into the police station to turn in a knapsack that fell off the back of a motorcycle as it was turning last Thursday around 5 p.m.
- Police responded to a report of a suspicious white bag or package on Atlantic Avenue on Friday around 2 p.m. Officers found it was a bag of leftovers.
- Officers took a report of a trash barrel on Village Street with a note for the trash men to take the barrel because there was a dead animal inside. The caller said the barrel was crawling with maggots.
- Leigh T. Hodges, 63, of Marblehead, was arrested on charges of violating an abuse prevention disorder and resisting arrest on Saturday around noon.
- Carla Pizoni, 32, of Everett, was arrested on charges of unlicensed driving, and failing to stop or yield last Saturday around 1 p.m.
- A sailboat capsized in the harbor on Sunday around 2 p.m., stranding four teen passengers in lifejackets on a rock. The Harbormaster picked them up.
- Police responded to a report of an older driver in a white Mercedes who got stuck on the beach on Gas House Lane on Sunday around 9 p.m. when "looking for 114."
- Kailey Katherine Gillis, 24, of Marblehead, was arrested on charges of assault and battery on a police officer, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest on Sunday before midnight after police responded to a report of a person passed out on a bench on State Street.
- Officers took a report of a swastika graffiti'd on the softball field on Humphrey Street on Monday around 11 a.m.
- Police took a report of a man in a gray car who reportedly pulled up alongside a woman walking in the area of Ocean Avenue, and told her he was an exhibitionist on Tuesday around 6 p.m. He asked if she "wanted to watch," and she told him she didn't know what he was talking about. The man told her to look it up, and when she did she said it was inappropriate, and he drove off.
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