Woman Receives Call Claiming Her Husband Taken Hostage

Monday, May 20

• At 1:24 p.m., a resident brought crutches to the station that she found in her yard on Washington Street.
• At 4:24 p.m., police received a visit from a Birch Street resident who said she got a call on her cell phone demanding $1,000 ransom. The caller told her that he had her husband hostage and woud kill him if the money was not paid. The resident ended the call and contacted her husband and he was fine. The call last between two and three minutes. The caller had instructed the woman that after she got in the car with the money he would call her back with further directions. He later called back but the woman did not answer the call. Police advised the woman that it was a scam and they were familiar with it.

• At 7:18 p.m., a jogger found a wallet at West Shore Drive and Waterside Road. The wallet was returned to the owner.
• At 9:36 p.m., a domestic disturbance was reported on Countryside Lane.

Tuesday, May 21

• At 2:51 a.m., police received a report from Columbia Road about a person in a backyard. Police checked the area but there was no sign of a person. It was perhaps an animal going through the yard that had set off the yard's lights.
• At 7:05 a.m., graffiti was found on Wyman Road on the grandstand, the back of the grandstand, the tennis shed, the playground, slides, benches, the basketball court and the back of the scoreboard.
• At 10:46 a.m., annoying phone calls were reported Cedar Street. 
• At 5:55 p.m., police and fire responded to a report of a car that drove into a tree at West Shore Drive and Park Lane. No injury was reported.