Someone Smeared a Hamburger All Over a Truck in Marblehead: Log

MARBLEHEAD, MA — The following are excerpts from the Marblehead police log. Suspects are presumed innocent.

Mon., Oct. 3

• 9:23 a.m. Treasury Department phone call scam reported on Batchelder Road.
• 9:45 a.m. IRS scam call on Smith Street.
• 11:48 a.m. IRS scam call reported on Skinners Path.
• 5:47 p.m. A caller said two fishermen were drinking on the beach near Atlantic Avenue. An officer responded and advised them they were violating public drinking laws.
• 10:08 p.m. A man on Harbor Avenue said a group of youths rang his doorbell, smashed a window, then fled. Blood was left at the scene.

Tue., Oct. 4

• 8:24 a.m. A landscaping crew on Harbor Avenue said a neighbor "sprayed them with a garden hose" for "starting too early." An officer responded to the scene; the neighbor denied spraying them. Peace was eventually "restored."
• 9:04 a.m. Treasury Department phone call scam reported on Pond Street.
• 9:30 a.m. Someone smeared a hamburger "all over" a man's truck on Stonybrook Road. The "rear window and driver's side are covered in condiments (and) the buns are on the roof and windshield," the caller said. There was no damage to the vehicle.
• 5:32 p.m. IRS scam on Powder House Court.

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