Crime & Safety

Car Wax Can Mistaken for Gun Inside Danvers' Walmart

Danvers and State Police responded to the scene at about 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday.

and responded to on Route 114 at approximately 4:20 p.m., on report of a man with a gun inside the store. 

The alleged man with a gun, a white male in a red coat in his 50's, was actually holding a can of car wax, which was mistaken for a gun. 

State Police cleared the scene just before 5 p.m., while Danvers Police remained to review the survelliance video, Lt. Carole Germano said.

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As of 5:25 p.m., the scene had been cleared.


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