Marion police investigate stolen checks, clothes
Police report that sometime between Aug. 15 and Sept. 5, someone entered the home of Pamela H. Hurtig, 310 North Cedar, and stole a book of checks from a storage box.
The account on the checks, with a Peabody bank, was closed in May, the victim told police. She discovered the checks were missing after a bank employee called her about checks written on the closed account that had been presented to the bank for payment.
Nothing else was reported taken from the house. The checks themselves were valued at $10.
Sometime between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sept. 2, someone pried a lock on a storm door at 421 South Freeborn, the home of Tara Nicole Barnett.
The intruder was able to get into a side entry way, but unable to enter the home's main door, according to the police report. The person took a laundry basket with some clothes in it, that was located in the entry way. Loss was estimated at $15.
Shortly before midnight Aug. 28, someone threw a concrete cinder block through the glass of an aluminum storm door. It also broke the glass in the inside door of the residence, home of Mary Ann Wiens, 309 South Coble.
The storm door's window frame also was damaged. Total loss was estimated at $235.
About $155 in cash was stolen from a wallet belonging to Melinda A. Mastin, 333 South Third St., on Aug. 17. She had parked her car in her front yard, near the driveway, at 8 p.m.
The car was unlocked and she had left her purse in the car. Between 8 and 10:30 p.m., someone entered the car and stole her wallet from inside the purse.
At about 10:30 p.m. a relative brought the purse inside and locked the car. The next morning, Mastin realized her wallet was missing. The wallet, cash and driver's license were missing.
The wallet and license were found Aug. 21 by someone on Main Street, who turned the items in at the police station.
A man was arrested Sept. 5 for DUI, second conviction, and speeding, on by police officer Philip Hartsfield. Hartsfield said that at 11:25 p.m. he saw a 1983 Buick going west on Main.
Between the 600 and 300 blocks, the driver sped up to 30 mph in a 20 mph zone, passing Hartsfield's stationary patrol car. The car pulled off the road into a parking lot.
Hartsfield determined the driver was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The driver was arrested, his vehicle was searched, and two open beer bottles were found, the officer reported.
A person was arrested Aug. 26 in the 900 block of Welch for possession of drug paraphernalia for planting and/or harvesting marijuana plants and possession of an illegal substance.
The morning arrest was made by officer M.D. Keyes. The resident was growing, cultivating, harvesting, and using marijuana in his apartment, the officer said.
Confiscated were three marijuana plants, items of paraphernalia, and 18 cans of Busch beer.
