Crime & Safety
A B&E and a Dog Dirties Town Hall Lawn
The following information came from the Swampscott Police Department. Where charges are listed, they do not indicate a conviction.

Saturday, Aug. 31
- 4:24 p.m., an erratic operator, blue box truck, was reported on Essex Street heading towards Lynn.
- 4:34 p.m., a breaking and entering to a motor vehicle was reported on Fuller Avenue.
- 5:17 p.m., a stove fire was reported at 1008 Paradise Road.
- 6:42 p.m., police received a report from Banks Road and Redington Street of a person using a controlled substance.
- 9:39 p.m., police received a report of marijuana smoking in a car on Redington street.
- 9:22 a.m., an erratic operator reported at Longwood Drive and Paradise Road.
- 4:25 p.m., Salem police asked for help finding a suspicious motor vehicle in front of Staples.Â
- 11:14 p.m., a caller reported a person in the street, Roy Street, yelling. The yeller's ex-boyfriend may have run to Lynn. No one was there upon police's arrival.
- 0:47 a.m., a loud party was reported at the corner of Superior and Duncan. The party was shut down for the night.
- 6:32 a.m., police received a report from a person on the lawn at Town Hall who said a dog walker refused to pick up after her dog.
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