Crime & Safety
Car Pasta, Topless Yelling About The Government: North Shore Police Logs
A bat got stuck in a Salem home, a Peabody snapping turtle crossed the road, and more from the North Shore police logs.

- Police responded to a report of a topless man screaming about the government on Essex Street last Thursday around 5 p.m. Officers found no disturbance.
- Officers responded to the Highland Avenue Burger King parking lot on a report of a car hung up on a rock on a traffic island on Thursday around 6 p.m.
- Police helped Washington Square residents get a bat out of their home on Thursday around 8 p.m.
Find out what's happening in Beverlyfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
- Someone dumped pasta on a Volkswagon parked on Kernwood Avenue sometime overnight, as discovered last Tuesday.
- Police dispersed a group of 30-plus kinds running down Brackenbury Beach and through peoples' yards on Thursday around 9:30 p.m. Officers found a youth hiding near the woods, and made him put out the fire on the beach with abandoned alcohol, and made him clean up the trash.
- Police responded to a report of men "snorting stuff" on Essex Street on Sunday around noon.
- Police responded to a report of vessels firing cannons at each other on the harbor last Friday around 11:30 a.m. in honor of "Pirate Day."
- Officers took a report of a person locked in the dump on Saturday around 4 p.m.
- Someone called police to report teens drinking and peeing on the street in the area of Humphrey Street and Sevinor Road on Saturday around midnight. Officers found teens that said they had just left a graduation party.
- Police took a report of a snapping turtle in the middle of the street on West Shore Drive on Tuesday around 7 a.m. The turtle made it onto someone's lawn.
Find out what's happening in Beverlyfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
- Police took a report of a fight in which one man said he was bit on Friday around 6 p.m. The man was taken to Salem Hospital.
- An Uber driver reported a drunk passenger being uncooperative on Boston Street on Saturday around 1:30 a.m.
Image via Shutterstock
Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.