Crime & Safety

Strongsville Police Blotter: Dad Accused, but Son's Nose May be Growing, Not Broken

Also, man won't stop ringing doorbell, woman says she was drugged

Police were called to a Pearl Road apartment April 29 by a 10-year-old who said his father had hit him in the nose, breaking it.

The youth also warned police his dad keeps shotguns and pistols in the house.

Police found the dad -- and a different version of events -- when they arrived. 

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A report said the boy and his siblings had been provoking their father so he would discipline them, then called the police because they resented the discipline. There was no violence and the boy had no injuries, the report said.

In other news:

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• A Doe Circle woman called police about 4 p.m. April 29 to report that her three children were home alone and saw a man looking in their window.

The woman, who was on her way home when she called, called back a few minutes later to say she was home and it appeared the man was a roofer who went to the wrong house. The man was across the street, talking with a neighbor, she said.

• A motorist reported seeing a handgun in the berm of I-71 April 29. Police located the item and said it was two pieces of pipe connected with an elbow joint that could have looked like a gun to a passing driver.

• Someone filed an income tax return using the Social Security number of a Greystone Point woman. The address on the return is a vacant lot in Texas, a report said.

• Teens wearing black hoodies were caught tying something across the roadway on Eastland Road about 9:30 p.m. April 30. Police identified the three and make them clean up their prank.

• A 50-year-0ld Brunswick woman claimed she was drugged by a man who left her at a Pearl Road motel May 1.

The woman was found to be wanted on an outstanding warrant in Brunswick and arranged for that department to pick her up.

Police also contacted her daughter, who said her mother has a drug problem and has made similar claims in the past. An employee at the motel said the woman had arrived in a taxi, alone and intoxicated.

• A woman on Pioneers Creek Circle called police May 1 with suspicions about a man who had been ringing her doorbell. She told officers that even after she looked out and waved her hand for the man to leave, he kept ringing the bell.

He finally left in a a red van.

• A safe was apparently not safe enough for a lost bank card at . A report said a woman left her bank card at Target May 1, but called and was told employees were putting the card in the safe.

When she arrived to pick it up, it was not there. The report said the store has video of the card being put in the safe, and no one knows what happened to it.

• A man driving south on Howe Road near Royalton Road abut midnight May 1 said someone threw eggs at his car from another vehicle. Police checked the area, but could not locate the egg-throwers.


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