Police

Salem

Friday

Police investigated thefts of newspapers from Wallyo's Market, 20 Essex St., at 1:32 p.m. Owner said a woman had been stealing newspapers and he caught her on video. The owner did not wish to press charges, and police went to the woman's home and she told the officer she would not do it again. The woman was advised not to go onto Wallyo's property or take any more newspapers or she could face arrest or fines.

A wooden statue of Mickey Mouse valued at $25 was reported stolen from a yard on Loring Avenue at 4:41 p.m.. Winnie the Pooh, however, was present and accounted for on the back lawn.

Anthony M. Colon, 19, of 40 Cabot St. was arrested and charged at 6:59 p.m. with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a plastic bottle cap, after an argument about borrowing the victim's car escalated and Colon allegedly threw the cap in the victim's eye. Police did not see visible marks or swelling and the victim refused medical attention.

After police witnessed an apparent drug deal at 8:33 p.m. on Wisteria Street between a man and a woman, police, with the assistance of Salem State College police Officer Laura Ktistes, were able to discover three OxyContin pills on the woman. Salem police contacted and arrested John Leger, 25, of 21 Forest St., Salem and charged him with possession of a Class B substance with the intent to distribute and possession of drugs with the intention of distributing within 1,000 feet of both the Horace Mann and Saltonstall schools.

James Patrick Hayes, 43, of 36 Derby St., Salem, was arrested and charged with violation of a protective order and with threatening to commit a crime of bodily harm. At 9:09 p.m., police went to a Derby Street residence for a possible violation of a restraining order and they were met by the victim and found her husband standing in his kitchen with his son. The man was asked to step away from his son and come back with police, and he was handcuffed. The victim told police her husband arrived at 5 p.m. and she became fearful when he did not leave. It took several hours before the victim called a friend, who called police.

Victor Servian-Martinez, 23, of 14 Water St., Danvers, was arrested at 10:08 p.m. near 63 Grove St., Salem, and charged with a city ordinance of drinking in public. Police went to the address as it was a recent target of graffiti. An officer saw Servian-Martinez allegedly carrying a bag with a shoulder strap and drinking a 40-ounce bottle of Colt 45 malt liquor. Police made contact with the suspect and saw that his bag had several cans of spray paint inside. The man said he was going to "tag," but he did not. Police also charged him with possession of certain paints for tagging and issued him a $300 fine. Police could not find any new graffiti in the area.

Saturday

Timothy Lovasco, 25, of 4 Sutton Ave., Salem, was arrested at 1:39 a.m. and charged with assault and battery and witness intimidation, after police learned Lovasco may have hit a woman in the stomach in an attempt to grab her cell phone to prevent her from calling a friend. Lovasco allegedly gained control of the phone and threw it on the ground.

Kostyantny Vlod Mogylenets, 33, of 286 Washington St., Salem, was arrested at 3:14 a.m. at his residence and charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, being a disorderly person, resisting arrest and assault and battery, after police responded to his residence for a report of a drunk man in the hallway. When the victim left her apartment to use a bathroom in the hallway, she allegedly found Mogylenets drunk with his head slouching down on the wall opposite her door. He then allegedly reached out and grabbed her left breast. The woman slapped the defendant, who then punched her in the face. The victim called 911 as she watched him crawl back to his room. Police went to the man's apartment and found him drunk and stumbling out of his room. The victim and others also identified him. At the station, Mogylenets refused to get out of the cruiser and he had to be physically removed from the vehicle and taken into the booking room. He refused to give officers his name.

Bai Kayu Gbala, 26, of 12 Pope St., was arrested and charged with six counts of domestic assault and battery and assault by means of a dangerous weapon, after the victim told police that, at 7:30 p.m on Friday, Gbala became upset when the victim was speaking on the phone with another man. Gbala allegedly slapped the victim on the right side of the face with an open hand and then hit her a number of times, at one point taking off his belt and gesturing as if he was going hit her with the belt, though he did not. Gbala was arrested when he returned to the apartment to retrieve some belongings after the victim related her story to police around 7:45 a.m.

Police pulled a car over on Hawthorne Boulevard at 2:09 p.m., and found the registered owner of the Nissan Maxima had his right to drive suspended. After pulling over the car, an inventory search turned up two "dime bags" of marijuana within reach of the passenger, who was cited under a city ordinance and fined $100. The driver was also cited and will be summonsed to court.

Carlos Umberto Romero, 29, of 129 Faulkner St., East Boston was arrested around 10:15 p.m. after a hit-and-run accident on the Bridge Street bypass and charged with driving without a license, failure to exhibit a registration and license to another operator after an accident and following another vehicle too closely.

Jaymes Avery Saunders, 20, of 81 Ocean Ave., Salem, was arrested at 11:10 p.m. and charged with domestic assault and battery.

Sunday

Elieser Aponte, 27, of 14 Cherry St., Salem, was arrested at 12:40 a.m. and charged with domestic assault and battery, after a report of an argument that turned physical in an apartment on Lafayette Street. Aponte was issued a no-trespass order covering the building where the incident took place.

Salem State police arrested Edgar Francis Pimental Jr., 24, of 50 Highland Ave., Salem and charged him with drunken driving and a marked-lanes violation at 2:54 a.m., in the area of Washington Square.

Sebastian Linares-Abreu, 21, of 7 Lemon St., Salem, was arrested at 3:23 a.m., after being stopped on Lemon and Cross streets and charged with drunken driving, driving to endanger and with failing to signal a left turn. Police said he failed three field sobriety tests, smelled of liquor and had glassy, bloodshot eyes. At one point he told officers he had three tall draft beers, but that he had gone to a friend's house to try and sober up. Police said he consented to a breath test and two readings of his blood alcohol level were 0.13, well above the 0.8 limit. Police confiscated and destroyed his license.

Ulises D. Placencio Jr., 21, of 252 Jefferson Ave., Salem, was arrested at 4:37 p.m., and charged with disturbing the peace, being disorderly and resisting arrest, after police were called to his apartment on a report of loud music. Placencio allegedly refused to turn down his radio, and when he was being arrested, he yelled in the street and kicked the cruiser's door so officers were unable to shut it at first. Police said he was also uncooperative during booking.

Police responded to a person who walked in to the Salem Hospital emergency department with a stab wound to the neck at 4:48 a.m. The incident occurred in Lynn and that neighborhing city's police were notified.

Starting at 11:03 a.m., police received numerous reports of car breaks on Gallows Hill and Circle Hill roads. Owners reported thefts of iPods, cell phones, headphones, chargers, GPS devices, small amounts of money, a wallet, an iTrip device and sunglasses. They said their cars did not show signs of forced entry and items were taken from the center console. Police later recovered some of the items elsewhere, including in Peabody.

Marisol Santiago, 42, of 72 Endicott St., Salem, was arrested at 5:30 p.m., at 56 Margin St., the Lifebridge shelter, and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, a brick, after she told officers she felt threatened by another resident, though the resident alleged Santiago became angry when he refused to give her a cigarette.

A 14-year-old boy will be summonsed to court for spray painting the front windshield of a motorcycle parked in the Walgreens lot on Washington Street.

Bonnie Lea Sousa, 28, of 4 Harrison Ave., Salem, was arrested at 7:17 p.m., and charged with misleading police by obstructing an ongoing investigation and being disorderly, after police searched for a man they said had two default probation warrants and was reportedly staying at Sousa's apartment. Police believed the man might have a 9mm handgun. Police spotted the man in a second-floor window and when they went to the apartment, Sousa told them the man was not there. An officer spotted the man, drew his gun and found him hiding under a bed. No handgun was found. Sousa became upset when police found her pocketbook and asked her to identify it. She told police she was upset they had gone into the apartment with their guns. She admitted she knew the man was in the apartment when police came to her door.

Walter Felix Desousza of Peabody was arrested on North Street at 11:59 p.m. and charged with assault and battery on behalf of Beverly police, which had put out a description of him and his vehicle. Beverly police later came by to pick him up.

Beverly

Friday

James D. Husson, 33, of 12 Hillcrest Ave., Beverly, was arrested at 9:08 a.m. on Hillcrest Avenue and charged with domestic assault and battery and disturbing the peace.

Daniel Dias, 32, of 215 Revere St., Revere was arrested at Rantoul and Fayette streets at 6:08 p.m., and charged with driving without a license.

Saturday

Pamela J. Delalla, 55, of 15 Stone St., Beverly, was arrested on Stone Street at 9:53 p.m., and charged with two counts each of assault and assault and battery, witness intimidation, larceny over $250, defrauding an innkeeper and assault and battery on a police officer after a report of domestic dispute.

Sunday

Walter Felix Desouza, 33, of 71 Tremont St., Peabody, was arrested and charged with domestic assault and battery, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and possession of a forged Brazilian license, after a report of domestic dispute on Stone Street. At 945 p.m., police went to a call for a dispute between a man and a woman on Stone and Lothrop. There were reports of a boyfriend dragging a woman toward a car, and that the boyfriend had hit the woman in the face. Salem police had located Desouza on North Street.

Peabody

Sunday

Rubens Rodrgues Desouza, 26, of 153 Washington St., Peabody, was arrested at 2:28 p.m. on Margin Street and Newcastle Road and charged with drunken driving, driving without a license and following another vehicle too closely.

Cameron J. Obremski, 18, of 111R Main St., Apt. 17, Peabody was arrested and charged with domestic assault and battery, two counts of breaking and entering into a vehicle in the nighttime for a felony, two counts of receiving stolen property over $250 and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, after a caller said she was assaulted by her boyfriend.

Monday

The principal of the Carroll School, 60 Northend St., reported graffiti at 9:23 a.m. Gordon Realty, 65 Main St., also reported graffiti.

A caller reported at 12:17 p.m. her wallet was stolen while shopping at T.J. Maxx, 300 Andover St.

Danvers

Sunday

Michael Ramsdell, 22, of 6 Tamarack Lane, Peabody was arrested at 4:55 p.m. and charged with shoplifting at Walmart, 55 Brooksby Village Drive.

Monday

Adam Carlin, 19, of 81 North St., Danvers, was arrested on Burley Street and Sherwood Avenue at 1:48 a.m. and charged with disorderly conduct, possession of a Class B drug and a motor vehicle equipment violation.

Swampscott

Saturday

Christine McGowen, 36, of 38 Marble St., Stoneham, was arrested at 9:35 p.m. on Atlantic Avenue and Puritan Road and charged with speeding, drunken driving and driving to endanger.

Sunday

A boat came ashore near Blodgett Avenue. The Coast Guard was notified.

Monday

A resident of the Hawthorne Crossing condominium complex reported seeing someone break into his motor vehicle at 12:14 a.m. on Gooseneck Lane. Officers Kevin Reen, Thomas Hennessey and Sgt. Johnathan Locke were able to stop and arrest four Swampscott teens on Vantage Terrace in connection with the car break. Jake Donahue, 18, of 54 Columbia St., Matthew Collins, 18, of 12 Fairview Ave., Nicholas Iudice, 18, of 52 Burpee Road, and Joshua Dembkowski, 12 Fairview Ave., and each were charged with two counts breaking and entering to commit a felony. Police located items from at least two car breaks on the young men. Police have been investigating several car breaks in town, but it was not known if these suspects are linked to those incidents. Police asked residents to lock their cars and take valuables with them.

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