Strongsville Police Blotter: Fighting Couple Doesn't Want to Wake Friends, Only Strangers

Police were called to Albion Road about 5:45 a.m. April 21 about a man and woman standing outside yelling at each other.

The couple told police they went outside to argue because they didn't want to wake up the other people in the house. Apparently, they had no such qualms about waking the neighbors.

Police told them other residents were complaining and they agreed to go back inside.

In other news:

• A wide turn apparently took out the stop sign at Wesley Drive and Wolf Drive April 18. Police said the sign and post were both gone and the grass was turfed. The Service Department was advised to replace the sign.

• An anonymous caller said she saw a man trying to get into a woman's car at the corner of Pearl and Royalton roads about 3 p.m. April 19. The woman was honking the horn and screaming, but the man got in and the car went south on Pearl.

Police checked the street and parking lots all the way to Boston Road and notified Brunswick authorities, but the car was not found.

• Employees at , 17095 Southpark Center, called police after a woman who appeared intoxicated came into the restaurant with two children April 21, ordered wine and then loaded the kids into a minivan and started to leave.

Police confronted the woman, who admitted to having one glass of wine. However, an employee said the woman took a second glass into the restroom and came out with it empty.

The woman said she was taking her kids to the mall. Officers advised her to walk there rather than drive.

• A witness reported seeing a car carrying so many kids that some were allegedly in the trunk. 

A report said the vehicle pulled into the BP station at 16625 Royalton Rd. April 21 and five kids got out. The driver then opened the trunk and two more kids hopped out. They all went into the business.

• A storm wreaked a some havoc in Strongsville April 21, knocking down electric lines and sending at least two trees into roadways.

A utility pole on Drake Road split in half about 2 a.m., sending lines into the street and closing the road between Saratoga and Hampton Chase for several hours until CEI could handle the issue.

Also during the night, trees fell on the roads on Ellsworth Drive near Pearl Road and on High Point near Drake Road.

• Three youngsters were ejected from the  April 19 for being disruptive. One was caught on tape pouring ketchup on the carpet.

Police took all three to the station and called one parent to get them. They were warned and banned from the library for three months.

• Someone smashed a window of a car parked at Westfield SouthPark April 19 and stole a GPS.

• A resident at a Whitney Road apartment called police April 19 after smelling marijuana coming from a unit. Police learned a tenant in that unit was considered armed and dangerous and wanted on a warrant from Cleveland.

Officers confronted the man and a woman in the apartment, who were both reportedly belligerent and argumentative. The man was arrested on the contempt of court warrant.

• Some kids pulled a ding-dong-ditch about 9:45 p.m. April 18 on Trapper Trail. While looking for the kids, police came across a car with its trunk open and no one around. Officers spoke with the owner, who said she had forgotten to close it after bringing something in.

• A car parked at Parkside Towers apartments, 8380 Pearl Rd., was broken into April 18. A GPS was taken.

• A concerned witness reported seeing a man carrying a baby on Cook Avenue at Wilmington Drive about 3:45 p.m. April 18. The man was screaming obscenities at a woman who was in a tan van and trying to get the baby.

• A resident reported another tent in the woods off Mill Hollow Road, the site of a homeless man's intended campsite last week. Police found this tent, but said it appears no one has been there for awhile -- the tent was knocked down and had water in it.