ESSEX — A pair of Eastern Avenue neighbors have been ordered by police to stay away from each other.
It all started Saturday morning, when a resident of the street began using machinery on his property.
At 10:16 a.m., police received a complaint from a neighbor about the noise being made by a wood chipper or some other machinery the resident was running.
Officers spoke to the operator who agreed to shut the machinery down, although he was not required to do so.
Police were called back to Eastern Avenue when the neighbor came out onto the machine operator's property after he started working again and created a disturbance.
Police advised the two men to stay away from each other.
— Andrea Holbrook
Arrest
Essex police officers arrested a resident shortly after he drove into town on Route 22 after Wenham officers reported he failed to stop for them.
Kirk Dalgerwicz, 43, of 7 Lakeview Road, was arrested at 1:10 a.m. Saturday on charges of speeding, failure to stop for a police officer, and driving to endanger. He was also charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after failing a sobriety test.
He was arraigned yesterday in Gloucester District Court.
Incidents
A horse was reported loose on Choate Street at 8:19 a.m. yesterday. The horse had been caught by its owner when police arrived at the scene.
At 7:19 yesterday morning, police received a report of a parked vehicle that's engine had been running since 4 a.m. An officer spoke with the driver, who went on his way.
A power outage was reported on Wood Drive at 11:27 p.m. Sunday. National Grid was notified. No other information was available.
An erratic driver was reportedly traveling Southern Avenue. The driver was stopped on Main Street and sent on his way when everything checked out.
An elderly driver was stopped by an officer in a cruiser on Route 133 at 4:33 p.m. Sunday after police received a report of an erratic driver. The driver was OK and was sent on her way.
Police received a report of utility wires and a tree down on Apple Street at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. The tree fell on a resident's car. Police notified Verizon of the downed wires, and the Department of Public Works was called to remove the fallen tree from the road.
Police checked a Main Street business at 12:47 Sunday after the burglar alarm went off. They found nothing suspicious.
A John Wise Avenue resident reported Saturday at 6:22 p.m. that a vehicle had hit and damaged his mailboxes and then left the scene. The caller was unable to give police a description of the vehicle, except it had headed toward Ipswich.
Police received a report of an erratic driver traveling toward to town on Western Avenue at 5:44 p.m. Saturday. A patrol car was unable to find the car.
At 1:04 p.m. Saturday, an Essex resident reported that his license plate was stolen or lost while he was in town.
A resident came into the police station at 11:29 a.m. Saturday to complain that a solicitor had left flyers about beauty products in her doorway on Western Avenue.
Police received a report at 10:47 a.m. Saturday that utility wires coming from a green box atop a pole on Main Street where exposed. An inspection found that the telephone wires were out of reach.
A person came into the station requesting a restraining order at 9:44 a.m. Saturday. The restraining order was issued.
The Essex ambulance was dispatched to Manchester at 4:30 a.m. Saturday on a mutual aid call to Manchester. The call was canceled while the crew was en route.
Police stopped a motor vehicle on School Street at 3:30 a.m. Saturday. The driver's license had been suspended by the state of New Hampshire. Stephanie Ellis, 21, 10 Lakeview Drive, Dover, N.H., was issued a summons on the charge of unlicensed operation of vehicle. Her car was towed.
At 12:10 a.m. Saturday, police received a report of people acting unsafely. A driver said a group of people were in the roadway in front of a Western Avenue business and that he almost struck them. Officers spoke to the business owner and who said he would have his employees try to deter the behavior.
