Strongsville Police Blotter: Duo Almost 'Finds' Trouble in Parking Lot

Police officers are routinely called to check out suspicious situations and find all sorts of explanations for being out in an unusual place, but here's a new one:

Two men were spotted in the parking lot of 8789 Pearl Rd., around 11 p.m. Jan. 15. Police questioned the pair and said it checked OK: They were geocaching.

In other police news:

• A Westwood Drive resident complained Jan. 15 that his neighbor piles his snow so high he can't see over it to tell if traffic is coming.

Police found he had a legitimate complaint. They contacted the neighbors and told them to instruct their plow driver not to stack the snow so high.

Officers also asked city Service Department crews to take a small plow over to level off the mound.

• Police stopped a driver on Pearl Road Jan. 14 after someone noticed he had his head down, making it seem like something was wrong. The driver was fine; he told officers he had been scratching an instant lottery ticket.

• Passersby reported a house on Drake Road with the front door open and swinging in the wind about noon Jan. 15. No one answered when officers yelled at the door, so they went inside and found nothing wrong. A report said the door was locked and must not have latched properly.

• A GPS was taken from a car parked at the morning of Jan. 16. Police said the thief smashed the driver's side window to get in the car.

• Some people at a party on Colleen Court about midnight Jan. 14 called police when an unexpected guest arrived: a pregnant 21-year-old who said she had been dropped off in the neighborhood and was stranded. 

The partygoers said they didn't know what to do with her. The woman said she had been driven to Strongsville to visit a friend, but the friend wasn't home. Police took her to a nearby service station to wait for a ride.

• A caller at a Whitney Road apartment reported an apparent fire the morning of Jan. 16, saying there was water everywhere and his neighbor had seen smoke.

It wasn't a fire, though, but a broken heating line that had sent steam through the building. 

• Someone reported an injured duck on Albion Road at Forestview Drive Jan. 16, but when officers arrived, they found the duck up and walking around.

• A diamond tennis bracelet with white and yellow gold was found in the parking lot of, 16650 Royalton Rd., Jan. 16.