Crime & Safety

Strongsville Police Blotter: Cell Phone Used to Track Down Missing Purse

Also, police chase down shoplifters, cars in garage broken into

A woman told police someone took her purse from her cart at April 5, but before an officer could make a report, her friend had tracked her phone to a North Royalton home.

The woman was shopping about 8:30 p.m. when she left her purse in a cart and returned a few minutes later to find it gone. The purse contained her cell phone, cash and credit cards.

The victim's friend subsequently called police to say he had tracked the phone to Tall Pines Drive in North Royalton. Police from that city and Strongsville went to the house, where they found the purse and all its contents.

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A resident at the house said he found the purse, brought it home and was attempting to contact the owner.

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• Police chased down a pair of shoplifters who allegedly ran into a store at Westfield SouthPark April 4, grabbed about 20 striped polo shirts and ran out.

Officers stopped their car at the BP station on Royalton Road and found the shirts in the vehicle. Both were arrested and their car was towed.

• A woman who saw someone looking in the window of her Pearl Road apartment last week spotted the man again. She told police April 4 she saw the peeper, a white man with a beard wearing a skull cap and dark coat, walking in the complex.

Police could not locate the man.

• A Steven-David Drive resident called for help from the animal warden after a raccoon fell from the roof onto a second-floor enclosed deck and was ripping the screens to shreds April 4. The resident called back to say the animal had got out on its own.

• A driver heading south on the berm on northbound I-71 caused concern for passing motorists April 4. The driver told police she had lost control of her car and was trying to turn around to get back on the freeway, but realized her steering was damaged. Police called for a tow truck.

• A thief in one neighborhood targeted cars parked in open garages the night of April 5. A resident on Heritage Trail reported two cars in the garage had been entered -- probably around 8:40 p.m., because that's when the garage door was open.

A radar detector and spare change, as well as an envelope of keys, were taken the same night from a garage on Framingham Oval.

• Residents of a Pearl Road apartment complex heard someone fire a gun about 7:10 p.m. April 6. One caller, claiming to smell the gunpowder, said the shot came from the fifth floor; a second caller said she heard a shot and saw something fall.

• A motorist on Saratoga Trail complained that construction workers were blocking the road all day April 7, forcing drivers to turn around.

A report said the road was down to one lane between Falmouth and Timber Creek, but there was plenty of room for cars to get through.

• A 10-foot piece of copper was stolen from a vacant house in bank foreclosure on Timberline Drive sometime last week, a report said.

• Someone spent a counterfeit $100 bill at , 14944 Pearl Rd., April 6.

• Police confiscated a concealed weapon from a driver because he did not announce that he had it, as required by law. Officers pulled over the Broadview Heights man for speeding about 4:45 a.m. April 4 and said he did not declare his firearm. 

• Police found three teens walking on Collier Drive about 10 a.m. April 5 -- after spring break had ended. Officers found them smoking behind a shed and took them to Strongsville High School.


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