CAPE ELIZABETH 

DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ

Officers met with a resident who responded to an email from a London resident who wanted to rent a summer cottage. The London native sent a check for $6,000 with instructions for $2,000 to be sent to an address in Los Angeles for a limousine. The Cape resident cashed the check and wired the money, only to find out later the check bounced.  

PIRATE PICKPOCKETS

A resident reported his wallet had been stolen after he helped a man whose sailboat had run aground on the Cape Elizabeth shoreline. When he noticed the missing wallet, he returned to find the sailboat was gone and his wallet – minus credit cards and money – was in the water.

SOUTH PORTLAND

DRIVE BY PELLETING

Police responded to reports of a window being shot out at a Thompson Street residence. Officers discovered the window was broken by a pellet gun, fired either by a passerby on foot or from a car. Officers say they have no suspects.

YOU DON’T HAVE MAIL

Police are investigating the theft of a delivered package to a Soule Street residence. Officers say the package had been left in a general pickup area for some time before someone other than who it was addressed to removed it. 

BAD AT ANY AGE

Officers arrested a 73-year-old man who was seen stumbling out of a supermarket and into his car. Police pulled the vehicle over and discovered the man’s blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit. He was summonsed for OUI and brought to jail.

PRANK CALL RUINS PARTY

While responding to a 911 hangup call from a hotel on Maine Mall Road, officers were asked to investigate a room that smelled of marijuana from outside the door. Police found several people inside with evidence of drug use and several bottles of prescription drugs. One man was charged with drug trafficking. 

GROSS

Police issued a citation for criminal trespass to a man who defecated in the dining room of a restaurant on Waterman Drive. Officers say no charges were pressed but the man has been instructed to stay away from the restaurant.

GET THE COATHANGER

Officers filed a report of vandalism when the antennae of a car on Wythburn Road was bent. Residents reported two kids bent the antennae.