Tag: Portsmouth Police Daily Briefing

It started with a chilling sound — a 911 hang-up call just before 9 p.m. on 20th Street. Dispatchers heard ...

Portsmouth homeowners are fed up — and who can blame them?  At 9 a.m., the owner of a 12th Street ...

Portsmouth officers found themselves on the front lines of a growing mental health crisis this weekend, answering call after call ...

This past weekend in Portsmouth, substance abuse and its ripple effects played out in real time, calling police officers, EMS ...

At 9 a.m., a resident on Grandview Avenue made an unusual call to 911: a woman kept checking her mailbox, ...

Child welfare cases are never easy—for families, for caseworkers, or for the officers called in to help.  Just after 10 ...

School Feud Boils Over on 16th Street  What started as schoolyard drama erupted into a doorstep showdown on 16th Street, ...

Someone’s playing with fire — literally.  Just before 10 a.m., police raced to a report of flaming garbage cans on ...

Wilson Street neighbors were wide awake and weirded out just after 4 a.m. when some suspicious characters started dropping off ...

Someone's fluff 'n fold turned into a full-blown felony after a thief swiped a dryer right out of the laundry ...