Crime & Safety
2 Wrong Numbers: Man Pocket-Dials Police and Gets Questioned; Woman Misdials and Gets Help
The following information was provided by the Strongsville police department
Two people called police without intending to late last week, according to reports:
• On Aug. 23, North Royalton police got an open phone line call that made them suspicious.
Dispatchers said they could hear a man and woman talking to a toddler, and said the language they were using was way out of line.
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Police checked out the family, which recently moved to Strongsville, and found no signs of abuse. The dad said he had called North Royalton police a few days earlier and must have dialed the number when he sat on his phone.
• On Aug. 22, Strongsville dispatchers answered a 911 call and got no verbal response, just someone pushing buttons on the phone.
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Police went to the Falmouth Drive home and found a 90-year-old woman who recently moved there and was frustrated -- she was trying to change her address to pay some bills and didn't know how.
An officer stayed and got her address changed on her bills, a report said.
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