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Creative Con Wants Free Beer: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports and incidents from departments across the region

Here are this week's most bizarre police reports. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Crafty Scam Nets Thief Cases of Beer

A man has hit two Giant Eagle stores in Fairlawn with a scam that allowed him to walk out with multiple cases of free beer.

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According to the report, the man identified himself to the manager as a Tramonte Distributing employee who had come to inventory the shelves for outdated beer.

He went into the cooler and loaded six cases of Miller Lite, plus a six-pack of Miller Lite, into a shopping cart, then wheeled it out to his car and left.

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The manager realized it was a scam when the other Giant Eagle store called on April 15 to say they had been hit and warn them of the scam.

At that store, a man matching the description gave the same story, then loaded a cart with 10 cases of Corona beer and left.

Police are investigating.

Woman Facing Charge After Fake Gun Threat

On April 17 at 7:58 p.m., a Cuyahoga Falls woman called 911 and reported a man had stormed into her residence  and threatened her with a gun stuck in his waistband.

Several police officers rushed to the scene and quickly realized it was a prank call. According to the police report, there is a suspect who will likely be charged with making false alarms, a first-degree misdemeanor.

Cuyahoga Falls detectives intend to use the 911 dispatch tape against her as evidence.

Angry Neighbor is a Prankster

A caller from Commonwealth Avenue told Mayfield Heights Police that he came home to find a car parked in his driveway on April 7 that he had not seen before.

Though the caller didn't initially recognize the car, it ended up belonging to a neighbor. The parked car turned out to be an orchestrated stunt that was part of an ongoing feud between the two.

An officer told the neighbor to move the car and not park there again.



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