Crime & Safety

Pirate Day, Flying Boat Cushion: Marblehead Police Log

Why did the snapping turtle cross the road, car punching, and more from the Marblehead Police log.

  • 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.
  • A driver saw a boat cushion fly out of a boat that was being towed in the area of West Shore Drive on Friday around 6:30 p.m. The driver took the cushion to the police station.
  • Police took a report of a driver that was approached while driving on Stramski Way by a black Mercedes, the driver of which got out of the car and asked if the caller wanted to get "[sic] up" and then hit the car with his fist on Friday around 10:30 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.
  • Firefighters and police responded to a structure fire on Hunsley Lane on Tuesday around 3 a.m., that possibly originated in a car in the garage. The fire was knocked down around 3:30 a.m.
  • 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.
  • A landscaper called police to report a woman harassing him on Wednesday around 2:30 p.m. in the area of Bayview Road, following him and filming him, saying he's killing the bees.
  • James Edward Powers, 73, of Everett, was arrested on charges of lewd, wanton, and lascivious conduct on Wednesday after police were called to Ocean Avenue on a report of a man fondling himself on the beach.

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