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Saturday, May 19, 2012

TALES FROM THE POLICE LOG: May 12-18

Here are the highlights, for one reason or another, from the pages of the Peabody Police Department press log this past week.

Here are the highlights, for one reason or another, from the pages of the Peabody Police Department press log this past week. May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18

Friday, May 18, 2012

Students Tell Police That Man in Car on School Property 'Beckoned' Them Over

Police are investigating a suspicious incident at the McCarthy School that school officials say had them thinking of the attempted kidnapping in Beverly on Tuesday.

Peabody school officials say a suspicious incident, potentially similar to the kidnapping attempt in Beverly on Tuesday, occurred just days later at the McCarthy Elementary School. McCarthy staff reported the incident to police around 1 p.m. on Thursday. During recess, students said, they saw a suspicious looking vehicle with an older male driver inside the car on school property near the playground. The students said the driver, from a distance, leaned out of the window and beckoned them to come over, but instead they left the area to tell an adult what happened. Police said the students did not actually speak to the man in the car. The description of the vehicle was a red four-door sedan, similar to the one seen in the Beverly incident, …

Peabody Police Log

Peabody Teen Charged With Multiple Home Burglaries

The following information was provided by the Peabody Police Department. Where charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

The following excerpts are from reports in the Peabody Police Department press log from May 16-17. For questions on this log, email peabody@patch.com.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Peabody Police Log

Peabody Man Charged With OUI After Hitting Car, Fence Downtown

The following information was provided by the Peabody Police Department. Where charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

The following excerpts are from reports in the Peabody Police Department press log from May 15-16. For questions on this log, email peabody@patch.com.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Two Men Sentenced in Brutal Beating of Peabody Army Veteran

Daniel May and Paul Hayes of Portsmouth, N.H., pleaded guilty Wednesday as part of a plea deal in the brutal beating of Peabody war veteran Stephen Bohn last summer.

Two suspects in the brutal beating of a Peabody Army veteran outside a Portsmouth, N.H. bar last summer pleaded guilty and were sentenced today. Daniel May and Paul Hayes, both of Portsmouth, N.H., both pleaded guilty to second degree assault, a Class B felony, as part of negotiated plea deals. May was sentenced to 2 to 5 years in state prison, and Hayes was sentenced to 2-1/2 to 7 years. May, 24, and Hayes, 26, were indicted on Oct. 4 for two counts each of second-degree assault for the attack on Stephen Bohn, a Peabody resident who received a Purple Heart when he was injured fighting in Afghanistan. The July 16, 2011 attack, which police say occurred outside of The Page restaurant in Portsmouth, left Bohn with a ruptured bladder, …

Peabody Police Log

Danvers Man Arrested After Police Check Cemetery Area for Drug Activity

The following information was provided by the Peabody Police Department. Where charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction

The following excerpts are from reports in the Peabody Police Department press log from May 13-15. For questions on this log, email peabody@patch.com.

Monday, May 14, 2012

4 Arrested for OUI at Peabody Sobriety Checkpoint

State police say they arrested four intoxicated motorists at a sobriety checkpoint in Peabody this past weekend.

Two Peabody women were among those arrested by state police at a sobriety checkpoint this past weekend. State police said Karen Ordonez, 22, and Lisa Glass, 48, were both taken into custody for driving under the influence of alcohol. A total of four people were arrested at a Peabody checkpoint, but state police did not specify which individuals were arrested where. In addition to Ordonez and Glass, state police arrested seven others for driving while intoxicated and a North Reading woman for operating under the influence of drugs at checkpoints throughout Essex County. The other arrests were Terrence Peck, 41, of Melrose; Leila Panzer, 57, of Middleton; Richard Chase III, 28, of Woburn; Edgar Delaroca, 38, of Danvers; Joseph D. Hyde, 36, …

Peabody Police Log

Burglar Steals Change Jar, Liquor, Camera, iPod...Handcuffs?

The following information was provided by the Peabody Police Department. Where charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

The following excerpts are from reports in the Peabody Police Department press log from May 11-13. For questions on this log, email peabody@patch.com.

Kevin Raposo

11:14 am on Monday, May 14, 2012

It's not surprising to me that a burglar stole the change, iPod, liquor, but i don't see the need for handcuffs. I recently wrote an article that shows you how it only takes 8 minutes for a burglar to rob your home: A Burglar’s Universal Search Pattern - How a Burglar Robs Your Home in 8 Minutes http://simplisafe.com/blog/burglar-universal-search-pattern-how-burglar-robs-your-home-8-minutes Feel …   more ›

Peabody Man Takes Salem Officer to Floor During Arrest

Police said the incident occurred in the early morning hours Saturday.

Salem police say a Peabody man took an officer to the floor while resisting arrest in the early hours Saturday morning. Joseph Taylor Lewis, 23, of 35 Lynn St. in Peabody, was arrested on charges of malicious destruction of property over $250 and resisting arrest after police responded to 260 Washington St. in Salem on a report of a fight at 2:45 a.m. Saturday. When they arrived in the lobby of the building, police said they spoke with a woman who said she witnessed a man "yelling and screaming that someone is gonna get their [expletive] kicked — he was punching the walls, kicking and he punched the window and smashed it," police said. The woman told police the man was "bald with a a lot of tattoos and blue jeans," officers reported. …

Police: Seat Belt Can Mean Life or Death in Car Wreck

The Peabody police are joining the statewide seat belt safety campaign over the next three weeks.

The Peabody police are giving you fair warning: click it or get a ticket. The local force, along with more than 120 other departments in cities and towns across Massachusetts, is teaming up on the statewide campaign run by the state police and highway safety officials over the next three weeks to enforce and promote seat belt use. The "Click it or Ticket" campaign runs May 14 to June 3 and during that time, thousands of additional officers will be assigned to patrol streets and highways across the state with that express task. Police wish to convey a simple message: always wear your seat belt or be prepared to face the consequences. They say the ultimate goal, of course, is to save lives -- a seat belt can and often does prove to be the …

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