BETHEL – Officer Charles Taylor received an unusual criminal mischief complaint on the morning of Nov. 17.

The caller stated that at 11:15 a.m., two motorcycles had just been ridden down the balcony walkway on the second floor of the Bethel House, a former 1960s hotel on Main Street that was converted into low-income units for the elderly.

The complainant said both bikes roared down over the stairs, going from the Elm Street to Main Street side, before disappearing down the road. Knobby-type tread marks left on the edges of some of the stairs led the caller to believe the motorcycles were dirt bikes.

According to Taylor’s report, no description of the bikes or drivers was available because they were going too fast.

Taylor said he spent some time in the area patrolling, but didn’t find any dirt bikes. The investigation remains open.

Other police calls were:

Nov. 19, 9:30 p.m. – Open door found at Telstar High School.

Nov. 19, 9:15 p.m. – Open window found at Crescent Park School.

Nov. 19, 7 a.m. – Car-deer wreck with no damage on Route 5, a quarter-mile south of the cemetery.

Nov. 18, 6:20 p.m. – Car-deer wreck on Intervale Road.

Nov. 17, 8:10 p.m. – Car-deer wreck on Route 2, 100 feet east of the Bethel Tree Farm.

Nov. 16, 4:57 p.m. – Four juveniles were given criminal trespass warnings for being in the Casablanca Cinema parking lot and “sent on their way.”

Nov. 16, 8:13 a.m. – Animal control officer Ozzie Hart was called to remove a dead raccoon from Sunday River Road.

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