Chief John Cotton has finally cracked the last remaining unopened police department safe.
This small safe, bolted to a windowsill in the police department offices, has been impossible to open for more than a year. It is outfitted with both a number pad and a key lock, but the pad is not functioning and the key went missing.
Reporting at tonight’s Select Board meeting, police liaison Dave DeHerdt said Cotton finally contacted the safe’s manufacturer with the serial numbers and was able to obtain a new key.
When, with the help of a little WD-40, he opened the safe, he found an open bottle of vodka, an open bottle of Captain Morgan rum, and ammunition for a variety of weapons, including a black powder gun. Since the police department doesn’t own a black powder gun, Cotton is trying to discover if this ammo might have been confiscated.
DeHerdt said the reason the keypad wasn’t working was that it was physically shut off from inside the safe.
David King
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