Dumpster fire, break and enters and someone setting the dog loose

During the period of March 31 to April 3, the Yarmouth Town RCMP Detachment responded to 136 calls for service. This included thirteen theft under $5,000, seven causing a disturbance, four Mental Health Act investigations, seven break and enters, one off-highway vehicle complaint, six mischief, nine false alarms, two shoplifting, seven assaults, three traffic collisions, one counterfeit investigation, seven 911 hangups, four drunk in public place and 13 other Criminal Code.

A summary of some of the calls for service is as follows.

•March 31, 3:25 p.m., received a call from the Provincial Building on Starrs Road of an all-terrain vehicle driving on Brunswick Street with two males not wearing helmets. Officers locate a three-wheeler. The ATV was seized and towed and the driver was given summary offence tickets.

•April 1, 10:57 a.m., received a call from a financial institution in the town that a $5 bill had been turned in, which they believed to be counterfeit.

•April 1, 3:55 p.m., received a call from a restaurant located in Yarmouth south reported a fight in the area involving three males. Patrol made, subjects were located.

•April 2, 8:40 p.m., received a report of mischief overnight on Haskell Street. Numerous vehicles were rummaged through and a door to a shed was spray-painted.

•April 2, 10:07 a.m., call of a break and enter to a residence on Horton Street. The premise has been entered overnight and all of the copper plumbing and wiring had been stolen. The residence was inside an apartment building that had been the subject of a minor fire the previous week.

•April 2, 1:08 p.m., received a call via 911 of a theft of an iPod from a residence in centre town. Through the investigation on the same date a suspect was arrested and is to be charged with theft under $5,000.

•April 2, 1:20 p.m., a report from Wal-Mart of a shoplifter involving a 17-year-old male who has been arrested and is going to court

•April 2, 3:56 p.m., three-motor-vehicle collision on Starrs Road, officers attend, minor injuries.

•April 3, 3:55 p.m., received a call regarding a theft at Lobster Rock Wharf that had occurred the previous evening, involving 13 boxes of herring bait from a vessel tied up overnight.

•April 4, 3:03 a.m., received a call via 911 of an unwanted person banging on a front door of a north end residence. Officers attended, located a very intoxicated male who was arrested and lodged in a cell.

•April 4, 3:25 a.m., received a call to assist the Yarmouth Fire Department with a dumpster fire on Thurston Street, garbage bin had been set on fire, no suspects, no witnesses.

•April 4, 8:50 a.m., received call of an overnight break and enter into a Liberty Tax on Main Street.

•April 4, 9:08 a.m., break and enter, Big Deal Discount, sometime overnight someone entered their business and threw some things around

•April 4, 4:25 p.m., officers responded to a 911 hang-up from a public payphone at the Yarmouth Mall, confirmed there was no emergency.

•April 7, 11:58 a.m., received a call of a two-motor vehicle collision, Brunswick and Elm streets, officers attended.

•April 7, 3:16 p.m., received a report of a break and enter to a vessel at Lobster Rock Wharf that had occurred over the weekend. Damage to the vessel and to the window of the wheelhouse, stereo and speakers were stolen.

•April 7, 2012, officers received a call of suspicious activity in Yarmouth south. A subject has called to say that someone is continually coming onto his property and letting his dog loose. It has happened three times in the past week.

•April 8, 3:01 p.m., received a 911 hang-up call from the payphone at the YMCA, officers attended, determined two female youths had been using the phone, they were spoken to.

•April 9, 3:28 p.m., officers received a call reporting vandalism to a vehicle that had been parked on Willow and Collins streets – a beige 1993 Honda Accord – the rear window had been smashed out.

•April 9, 6:36 p.m., a shed had been broken into the last few days, officers attended, a Black and Decker workbench had been stolen from the shed between April 2-9.

•April 12, 0053, received via 911 report of a motor vehicle collision at the intersection of Haley Road and Parade Street involving a single vehicle. EHS attended, female driver was injured and removed from the vehicle by EHS and the fire department.

•April 12, 1:48 p.m., received a call that there was a subject passed out in the washroom of the Irving on Starrs Road, officers attended and located one male subject who was passed out in the male washroom, arrested for intoxication and lodged in cells.

•April 12, 5:54 p.m., received a call that near the Milo Boat Club two large pit bulls were running wild, officers attended, no dogs found.

•April 13, 9:54 a.m., received a complaint from centre of town that two BMX-style bikes, one blue, one silver, had been stolen from a yard.