York police: children throwing rocks leads to adults wielding pipes

Police made two trips to a Wellington Square home Saturday, once because of a woman’s complaint about the neighbor’s children, then again because the children’s mother claimed the woman threatened to retaliate with a pipe.

A woman initially called York police on Saturday to report that her neighbor’s children were throwing rocks at her Wellington Square home. An officer found a “soft plastic bead” on the woman’s porch, then noticed the same kind of bead surrounding the doorway of the neighbor’s house.

The children’s 30-year-old mother told the officer she was having “some kind of trouble” with the nighbor, but promised to tell her children to keep away from the house.

Exactly 11 minutes later, according to the officer’s incident report, the same officer was called back to Wellington Square after the neighbor and an “unknown cousin” approached the mother’s home and “started cursing at her,” according to the report. When the mother told the women to leave or she would call the police, the “cousin” reportedly went to the trunk of her car and returned with a “blue pipe” and threatened to beat her with it.

The two women then left the scene in a white Honda Accord. Police searched the area for the vehicle.

This story was originally published January 17, 2016 at 12:43 PM with the headline "York police: children throwing rocks leads to adults wielding pipes."