CAPE ELIZABETH

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Police responded to a Broad Cove home following reports that a mailbox had been damaged. Officers used pieces of a vehicle discovered in the mailbox to locate the person who had done the damage. Arrangements were made to repair the mailbox.

PAINT THE TOWN

Officers met with a Fowler Road resident who reported his house had been struck by paintballs earlier in the day. Upon arriving, police received another call that houses on Wells Road were being shot at with paintballs. Using a license plate number reported by the Wells Road resident, police were able to locate the suspects and restore the peace.

 SOUTH PORTLAND

IT WASN’T ME

A police officer summonsed a teenager walking around the Red Bank neighborhood for possession of tobacco while on parole. The officer was originally looking for suspects in relation to a series of automotive crimes in both South Portland and Portland. 

ROAD RAGE

Police filed a report of assault when a man got out of his car at a stoplight on Broadway and began punching the man driving the car behind him in the face. Police say the two men had been following each other through several intersections where they had honked and yelled at each other for improper driving.

LOOK OUT

Officers responded to reports of gunfire on Main Street and discovered a man’s handgun had accidentally gone off while he was cleaning it. The bullet passed through a nearby wall and into another apartment, where it narrowly missed a woman sitting in her kitchen.

WINDOW PAIN

A man was transported from his Ocean Street apartment after he punched through both halves of a window, cutting his hand severely. Police say the man was distraught from a fight with his girlfriend but no charges were filed.

FROM ACROSS THE BRIDGE

Police arrested a man for domestic assault when they received reports of a fight on Main Street. Officers say the fight, which included punches in the groin and bite wounds, originated between a man and a woman in the Old Port earlier in the day.