Crime & Safety
Police Blotter: Delivery Man Keeps the Food and Cash; Kids Prank Police
The following information was provided by the Strongsville police department
Police are investigating an employee at a local restaurant after he allegedly left on a delivery and never came back.
A report said the man left the Barking Bullfrog about 9:15 p.m. Friday to make a delivery in North Royalton.
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At 10:30, the restaurant manager called police to say the man never made the delivery -- or returned with $300 in cash.
Police checked the Hinckley home of his ex-wife's family, but he wasn't there.
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No Shopping There
Police checked out a suspicious vehicle on Foltz Parkway about 2 p.m. Sunday.
A report said as the officer approached, everyone in the car was looking at their cell phones.
The passengers, all from Norwalk, said they were trying to get to SouthPark Mall, but their GPS took them off course.
The officer gave them directions.
Kids Prank Police
Dispatchers handled a 911 call about 6:30 p.m. Dec. 7 from a Selby Circle home in which kids screamed into the phone and pressed buttons.
They refused to give the phone to an adult, a report said.
Police said a parent finally came on and was asked to talk to the kids about what 911 is for.
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