False burglary alarm at pet company due to construction, Peabody MA

Burglary

Reported: 11/6/2025 03:09 AM

Near Prospect St, Peabody, MA 01960

Police responded to a burglary alarm near Prospect Street at the pet company. The alarm company reported multiple people dressed in black trespassing. Officers found only construction workers at the site and confirmed no break-in occurred. The alarm was due to confusion with a construction area nearby.

Audio|Source: Peabody Police and Fire

03:37

Transcript:

00:00

TV 18 Units respond to near Prospect Street, the pet company, have alarm company on the line who has live feed of multiple parties trespassing into the business there,

00:14

reporting several motor vehicles with one party,

00:20

unknown gender, all in black.

00:27

Roger.

00:30

A riflework upon.

00:36

Roger. Roger.

00:45

Control of units responded on near Prospect.

00:49

They entered by way of the south main entryway, and that appears to be the only entrance.

01:00

Roger.

01:10

PB11, if you could control.

01:15

Do you control?

01:18

Alright.

01:20

Is this the new construction I'm having trouble finding number 47?

01:26

Stay by.

01:30

Possibly new construction is a construction area, but uncertain.

01:44

Joel, if we could confirm that address please.

01:48

I don't believe this is the right spot.

01:54

That is confirmed the address was stated multiple times as near Prospect street.

02:09

2121, 11. I'm in Shiki where the old, Logan Express was.

02:19

Roger, I just pulled in there.

02:21

There's workers working on the building.

02:24

It is not a pet company of new residences.

02:27

They also said there's nobody there that's not supposed to be there.

02:37

received.

02:40

So alarm company reported as parties trespassing, I submitted an enter code.

02:51

There's no building.

02:53

It's literally just would.

02:54

I don't think there's anywhere to enter a code.

03:05

We can just give the alarm company and call back.

03:08

Confirm what they're seeing is it's actually a construction site or if it's that new pet, um,

03:14

that kind of across the street.

03:17

Receive.

03:23

There is a new PETBR building by BMW.

03:34

Thank you.

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Near Prospect St, Peabody, MA 01960

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