Marblehead Hijinks for the New Year

Tuesday, Dec. 31

• 10:54 a.m., a Sevinor Road caller reported that someone appeared to be sabotaging her doorbell. She called an electrician to fix it, and thinks someone put super-glue in it. She has no idea who might have done it. Avon calling!


• 11:32 a.m., a Brooks Road resident reported a pair of earrings valued at $351 were missing from her home.


• 2:15 p.m., a motor vehicle accident took place at West Shore Drive and Pequot Road. No patients were transported. One vehicle was towed.


• 3:13 p.m., a man came into the police station and dropped off an earring he found at the laundromat. Hm, is the laundromat near Brooks Road?


• 3:32 p.m., a Walker Road resident came into the police station and reported fraud, saying someone set up multiple phone lines using her information. Could it be Avon calling?


• 3:32, a person who found a hypodermic needle flagged down an officer and gave it to the officer.


• 4:06 p.m., a caller said she followed a blue pick-up truck into Swampscott, and an occupant in the truck was throwing rocks from a truck window at her. She followed the older model Chevy S-10 to the Stop & Shop parking lot where she collected its license plate number. An officer subsequently talked to the mother of a boy who was in the truck. The mother said it was not rocks or ice balls but grapes the boy was throwing. The officer was told that the boy would not do it again. I haven't a clue what to say about this. It's a grape…er, great story.


• 8:24 p.m., police received a 911 call about a disturbance on Atlantic Avenue in a third floor apartment. A woman was reportedly yelling and screaming and hitting the floor. Police responded to the scene. It turned out the woman in the apartment was on the phone with her husband. Better the floor than her husband, I suppose.

Wednesday, Jan. 1

• 2:25 a.m., a Bellevue Road (Swampscott) caller reported that a suspicious person was knocking on the door. Swampscott police checked Bellevue and Marblehead checked the Seaview Avenue area. No one was located on Seaview. Barnacle Bill the Sailor, perhaps?