July 3, Lebanon St., 11:26 p.m.
An officer on patrol observed two young men walking through a nursing home parking lot. The pair split up and the officer pursued one of the males. After being questioned by a policeman, the Dartmouth student told the officer that he and his friend were playing hide-and-seek. The officer told them to stay away from private residences in order to avoid complaints.
July 4, South Main St., 12:51 a.m.
Hanover Police responded to a complaint from CVS employees that youths were breaking glass in the store's parking lot, emptying trash cans and throwing the contents around. By the time an officer arrived on the scene, the group had left CVS, but the officer pursued a vehicle matching the description provided by CVS employees. The officer learned that the group of local teenagers had been at Price Chopper and Best Buy in Lebanon earlier that evening and "were acting like jerks." After tracking them down, the officer on duty followed the youths back to CVS and forced them to clean up the parking lot and return the shopping cart that they had stolen.
July 4, Webster Ave., 4:24 a.m.
A Dartmouth student called Hanover Police to report that her bicycle had been stolen from outside of her sorority house between midnight and 3:00 a.m. At 10:50 p.m. the following evening, the student followed up her initial phone call to report that she found her bicycle, which in fact had not been stolen.
July 8, 13 School St., 1:12 a.m.
Officers responded to a noise complaint from a School Street resident. Upon arrival at 13 School St., the policeman found a crowd of about 20 people outside gathered around a pong table. The officer saw an unconscious male in a chair and approached him to see if he was all right. He found the male to be "extremely intoxicated, or appeared to be." The student said he was 21 years old, but when asked for proof, the young man pretended to reach for his wallet, pushed the officer out of the way and started to run back into the house. The officer and the student "got into quite a tussle," after which two other partygoers assisted the officer in subduing the intoxicated student. The man, three days shy of his twenty-first birthday, was arrested and released with an August court date.
