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June 20, 2009

Police

Topsfield

Friday

Joseph Moscato, 49, of 1 Stuart St., Amesbury, was arrested at 2:43 p.m. and charged with drunken driving and a marked-lanes violation. He was stopped on Central Street by Officers Scott Lunn and Lawrence Nestor.

Ipswich

Thursday

Sean Fagan, 45, of 8 Winter St., Ipswich, was arrested at 6 p.m. and charged with drunken driving (third offense) and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle after a traffic stop on Topsfield Road.

Swampscott

Tuesday

A resident called police at 5:41 p.m. because a 4-year-old was missing from a backyard. The boy was found under a porch.

Harold Gooding, 44, of 150 Bass Point Road, Nahant, was arrested at 11:11 p.m. and charged with witness intimidation and two counts of violation of an abuse prevention order. Nahant police made the arrest after a Swampscott resident reported a violation.

Wednesday

Shawn Sullivan, 45, of 304 Humphrey St., Apt. 1, Swampscott, was arrested at 6:11 p.m. and charged with violation of an abuse prevention order and threatening to commit a crime.

Lindsey Melanson, 25, of 31 Rayfield Road, Marshfield, was arrested at 10:39 p.m. and charged with driving with a suspended license after a traffic stop on New Ocean Street.

Thursday

Jonathan C. Huntley, 22, of 8 Albion Terrace Apt. 2, Somerville, was arrested at 12:01 a.m. and charged with failing to drive in the right lane and driving with a suspended license.

Courtney Mentuck, 18, of 71 Walnut Road, Swampscott, was arrested at 7:48 p.m. and charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle and drunken driving. Police said she backed into a car and drove away, then was involved in an accident on Forest Avenue.

Danvers

Thursday

Items were stolen from a car at the Agway on Wenham Street.

Friday

Items were stolen from a car at the Liberty Tree Mall.

Peabody

Thursday

A woman said at 6:53 p.m. that her fiance's ex-wife keeps calling to threaten them.

Sometime during the day, a thief smashed a Mercedes' window at the Holiday Inn to steal a Coach briefcase and papers valued at $350.

Friday

It's bad enough getting stuck in an elevator, but two Northshore Mall employees got stuck at 2:45 a.m.

A man on Berkshire Road said someone smashed his car window to steal more than $2,200 worth of items including golf clubs, a GPS and an iPod.

At 11:35 a.m., a man called police for help. His wife's diamond bracelet had fallen off onto Summit Street. An officer helped stop traffic to retrieve the jewelry.

A woman tried to steal $291 worth of groceries from Shaw's at 12:57 p.m.

Edwin Burke-Martinez, 17, of 5 McIntyre Court, Peabody, was arrested at 2:38 p.m. and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (knife) after an incident on Hourihan Street.

John Martin Mannion Jr., 23, of 10 Tanners Court, Peabody, was arrested at 5:11 p.m. and charged with driving with a suspended license and an arrest warrant after a traffic stop on Lynn Street.

Salem

Thursday

A man said his ex-wife threatened him after a probate court hearing. The woman's lawyer stuck her hand between the man and woman to keep them separated in the 4:53 p.m. incident.

At 6:53 p.m., a man called police to report his ex-girlfriend may have left a small mark on their son's face. Minutes later, he called back to apologize and say the boy had gotten the minor injury at school. An hour after that, the woman went to the police station to say her ex-boyfriend may have left a mark on the boy's face. Police spoke with the boy, who confirmed he'd gotten it during an incident at school.

At 9:30 p.m., a border collie bit a person on New Derby Street.

A man told police he'd just left a meeting at City Hall and was talking with a pastor on Essex Street at 9:36 p.m. A man he knew, who had a "stay-away" order, approached and deliberately bumped into him, knocking him off balance.

Friday

At 12:27 a.m., a taxi driver called police because a drunken man refused to get out of the cab. By the time police arrived, he'd gotten out of the cab but locked himself out of his home. Police took him into protective custody.

Overnight, someone smashed a Ford's window on Palmer Street to steal tools.

A man with a bloody nose refused to pay a $25 cleanup fee at the Clipper Ship Inn. The owner may go to small claims court over the soiled sheets.

License plates were stolen off a Park Street car.

At 2:43 p.m., a man at Shetland Park said a pickup truck driver dinged his door against his car. The victim asked that he be more careful, and the pickup driver started yelling, then drove away. That man parked 10 spaces over, then ran back only to kick the car.

A woman said that someone at the Salem Mission had stolen $200 worth of money orders from her purse overnight.

Beverly

Thursday

Jules A. Jefferson, 19, of 506 Elliott St., Beverly, was arrested at 12:56 a.m. and charged with larceny under $250 after police investigated a bicycle theft and a report of a man swinging a baseball bat on Lothrop Street.

James Rao Jr., 29, of 56 Amherst Road, Beverly, was arrested at 11:34 a.m. and charged with larceny by check after an incident on Dodge Street.

Police ousted a man trying to sleep, again, in the lobby of the post office. They also advised him not to break in anywhere, instead finding some place "out of sight, out of mind," after the 9:04 p.m. incident.

Three officers rushed to a rowdy group at the River House shelter at 10:09 p.m. One man was taken into protective custody.

Friday

Employees at an Essex Street business reported a man was more suspicious than eccentric after a 2:10 p.m. incident. Police said the man in his 50s or 60s smelled of pipe smoke and arrived in a convertible wearing a blazer. He gave the staff conflicting stories about why he was there, said he had a child, said he didn't have a child, asked about employment and talked about theories of child care. He also wrote a woman's name on a form.

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