Confrontation Over Peat Moss; Sideview Mirror Possibly Shot; Strange Fish Caught in a Net

Thursday, May 14

At 9:27 a.m., motor vehicle breaking and entering was reported on Countryside Lane. A phone was stolen.

At 9:29 a.m., an employee at the Jewish Community Center reported a man passed out on the walkway to the parking lot. It was a man in his 70s who had fallen and was having trouble getting up. He was speaking with people trying to assist him.

At 9:31 a.m., a man reported his laptop taken from his unlocked vehicle on Brookhouse Drive overnight.

At 10:07 a.m., a woman reported that she’d heard a “boom like a gun and shattering” and noticed that her passenger sideview mirror had been shattered. She didn’t believe she had struck anything and instead thought someone had shot her mirror.

At 12:27 p.m., a woman reported a road rage incident in which a vehicle followed her closely, honked repeatedly and tried to pass her on both sides. When she pulled over to let the driver pass, the driver pulled up beside the car, scaring her. She reported that the driver sped off when she picked up her phone to call police. An officer spoke with the suspect and reported everything was calm at that point.

At 1:31 p.m., a caller reported someone had been at their house soliciting paving services.

At 4:41 p.m., a man reported that he saw an online ad for peat moss and loom being sold in Marblehead and went to the specified house to buy some. He said he arrived and “had a confrontation with the lady,” whom he described as a Russian woman at a house with peat moss and loom in the yard. Police advised the business that it would need a zoning permit from the building department in order to sell from that location.

At 4:57 p.m., a caller reported a boat had just come in with what the boaters believed to be a sturgeon caught up in the net and he believed it was rare. Police contacted the environmental police and took photos of the fish in case they were needed.