April 18, Lyme Road, 4:32 p.m.
Hanover police arrested 17-year-old Maya Ptashnik, a student at Hanover High School, for iPod theft. She had allegedly pocketed a fellow student's MP3 player at school one day.
April 19, Great Hollow Road, 2:11 p.m.
Vermont Probation and Parole alerted Hanover police that 39-year-old Vermont resident Michael Jacques, a registered sex offender, had become employed in Hanover. Jacques' unspecified conviction occurred in Vermont; as a sex offender Jacques is required to register the address of any new place of employment in the state he is working. Jacques failed to do so in New Hampshire and Hanover police subsequently arrested him on misdemeanor charges of failure to register his new employment address.
April 20, South Main Street, 11:17 a.m.
A female passerby reported to police that she had noticed a dog inside a parked and unattended car with Massachusetts license plates. Soon after an officer arrived on the scene, the female owner of both the Volvo and the Shepard-mix dog returned to let the dog out of the car. Police decided to take no action on the issue.
April 21, South Main Street, 8:19
A male caller informed Hanover police that three male skateboarders were skating in front of the town hall. All three had vacated the scene by the time the police arrived.
April 22, West Wheelock Street, 9:17 a.m.
An officer pulled over a 1989 gray Honda Accord after he noticed that the car's windshield was badly broken. Upon further review, the officer discovered that the driver's license had been suspended for failure to pay a fine in Vermont. He then arrested the 63-year-old Bradford, Vt., resident for driving with a suspended license.
April 22, Carter Street, 3:32 p.m.
Hanover police received a tip that a 22-year-old male was driving a motorcycle without a motorcycle driver's license. The confidential caller identified the driver, and the police found and pulled over the Honda motorcycle. Not only had the male been driving without a license, allegedly the driver had also illegally tampered with the motorcycle's validation sticker and was driving with invalid license plates. The 22-year-old had allegedly altered the color of the validation sticker from white to red to hide the fact that it had expired. The license plates, which had expired at the end of October 2004, did belong to the motorcycle but had been registered under a previous owner of the bike. Police arrested the driver for misuse or failure to display plates and for driving without a motorcycle license.
April 24, Choate Road, 2:15 a.m.
A male freshman defenestrated himself from a third floor room in Bissell Hall. The '08 apparently broke through a window screen before jumping and sustained a head laceration and sprained knee in the fall. Safety and Security asked Hanover police for assistance; when police arrived, they found the injured freshman back on the third floor of Bissell. An ambulance brought the '08 to the hospital, and police later charged him with unlawful possession of alcohol. "Lucky's the first word that comes to mind," the freshman said.
