Crime & Safety

Strongsville Police Blotter: So Much Trash in Apartment it Seeps Under Door

Also, teens take boy's iPod, hockey team damages massage chair

A strange odor brought police to the Village Square Apartments on Royalton Road March 25. 

A manager said she could not identify the smell and asked police to accompany her as she opened some apartment doors.

Officers traced the odor to a first-floor unit. The manager did not have a key for that one, but it wasn't necessary -- a report said that "trash leaked from the (apartment) and into the hall."

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Looking inside, officers saw all kinds of trash piled up, the report said. The manager said she would speak to the tenants when they got home.

In other news:

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• An 11-year-old from Forestview Drive said he was walking in his neighborhood March 26 when two older boys pushed him down and took his iPod Touch. Police have suspects in the incident.

• Officials from Southwest General Health Center called police about 5 a.m. March 26 because a Strongsville woman left the hospital with an IV still in her arm. Police could not locate the woman. Southwest called again two hours later asking police to return to the house.

This time, officers spoke with a man at the house who said the woman told him she got scared and left the emergency room. She later went to Akron General to have the main line IV removed.

• Some kids set off an alarm at about 5:20 p.m. March 25 when they tried to break in the building. They ran, but one left behind his bike. Police soon located the boy near the school building and took him into custody.

• Witnesses at called police March 25 after they heard a couple fighting and saw the man throw the woman's phone on the ground and stomp on it.

Police stopped the SUV, but both parties said the argument was verbal only. However, a passenger in the vehicle was wanted for a felony in Oklahoma. She was taken to county jail to await extradition.

• A massage chair at was damaged March 26 when a hockey team jumped on it, a report said.

Police said one player from a hockey team visiting from New York sat in the chair, but his teammates piled on, breaking the arm. The owner said he would not press charges but wanted restitution; the team's coach said they would pay for the damage.

• About $8 in cash and a knife were taken from an unlocked truck on Hartford Trail the night of March 26. The owner said this is the second time his truck has been entered, but he did not report the first incident.

• An estimated $6,000 to $7,000 in gasoline was ruined when someone removed the cap from a gas tank at Clark, 15387 Pearl Rd., earlier this month.

• Witnesses reported seeing a bushy-haired man wearing a checked jacket walking near Heritage Trail March 27. Police could not locate the man.

 


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