Crime & Safety
Fake Undercover Police, Sick Coyote: Beverly Police Log
An incident involving Cheetos, cigarette burns, and more from the Beverly Police log.

- Police responded to a report of Cheetos poured on a girl at the Farmers Market on Monday around 6 p.m. The Cheetos pourer was moved along.
- Daniel Alexis Matos, 28, of Lynn, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after police were called to Rantoul Street on Monday around 10 p.m.
- Dexter S. Wiltshire, 69, of Beverly, was arrested on charges of violating a harassment prevention order and trespassing after a report of a neighbor dispute on Northridge Road on Monday around 7 p.m.
- Officers responded to a report of a beer bottle with a gas soaked rag in it that had previously been lit on fire at the basketball court on Lindsey Avenue on Tuesday around 5:30 a.m.
- Someone reported a possibly sick coyote in the area of Cabot and Conant streets on Tuesday around 5 p.m.
- A man claimed to be an undercover police officer after he had been blocking a dumpster on Cabot Street with his car for about 20 minutes on Wednesday around 1 p.m. The man then called someone a slur and gave the finger as he drove away.
- Trever Paul Archibald, 43, of Beverly, was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, and possession of a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, and two counts of improper securing of a firearm after police responded to a report of five gunshots near Kennell Hill Drive on Thursday around 6 p.m.
- Andrew Robert Durkee, 30, of Beverly, was arrested on charges of drunken driving, reckless driving, and leaving the scene of property damage after a car crash on Friday around midnight on Rantoul Street.
- Police responded to a report of a person that punched someone, burned them with a cigarette, then left during a party on Manor Road Sunday around 3 a.m.
- Jeffrey Scott Pitman, 53, of Gloucester, was arrested on charges of assaulting a household member and kidnapping after a report of a domestic on Misery Island on Wednesday.
- Karen A. Posada-Buendia, 21, of South Hamilton, was arrested on charges of drunken driving and possessing an open container of alcohol after a report of a car crash on Rantoul Street on Monday around 2 a.m.
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