Strongsville Police Blotter: Woman Gets an Eyeful of Peeping Tom

A Lincolnshire Boulevard woman was doing dishes about 8:45 p.m. March 8 when she looked out the window -- right into the face of a man looking back at her.

A report said the man was white, in his 30s, with no facial hair and wearing a gray hoodie.

The woman thought it was a neighbor, but called that house and learned it was not. When she went back to the window, the man was gone. Police couldn't find him in the area.

The woman called police back a while later, saying she had looked up sexual predators online and believed the man looking in her window was a predator who lives a few streets away.

Officers went to that house and determined he was not, in fact, the peeper.

In other news:

• A wrong number led to a hassle for an Iyami Court woman. She told police she dialed a wrong number two weeks ago, and the person called her back seven time. She explained she misdialed and apologized, but the person called again March 7, and four times between 2 and 3 a.m. March 8. Police called the number and left a message advising the person to stop calling.

• A chemical odor at a house wouldn't necessarily bring out police -- unless the house in question was a former meth lab. Officers visited the house on White Bark Drive March 8 and halted some workers who were remodeling the home. 

• A Pine Needle Trail resident called police about 1:45 a.m. March 8 after hearing loud breathing by her back window. The woman said she did not know if it was a large animal. Police checked all around the house and found nothing there.

• Employees at a Pearl Road bar called police about 11:10 p.m. March 7 about a man who was acting strange. Police spoke with the man, but said being strange is not a crime -- the man did not pose a threat to himself or others.

But employees at another bar called police about 1 a.m. to say a man was bothering other patrons, not making sense and refusing to leave. Police gave the man a courtesy ride to the Brookpark Road Rapid station.

• A woman complained she was followed around by a man who started pacing around her car when she pulled in about noon March 9. She waited for him to go into the mall, but found him waiting for him at the entrance. She notified security, but the man had left.

When she left 40 minutes later, she saw him again near the door, and he followed her in his car, slowing down when she did. She lost him in traffic. He never spoke to her, the report said. 

He was in his 40s, with short brown hair parted in the middle and light-colored eyes. He was waring navy khakis and carrying a black umbrella.

• A Strongsville family and police had some tense moments March 10 when an 18-year-old called his parents during the night to say he had cut himself, but would not say where he was. Officers went to the house where he had been staying, but he wasn't there. The teen, who was on the phone with his mother, eventually said he was at the ball diamonds on Fair Road at Eastland Road. Police and the parents found blood on a bench, then spotted the teen walking. He was taken to the hospital.

• A Polo Club Drive resident returned home to find the door to his medicine cabinet open and his pills missing March 9.

• An iPod was stolen from an unlocked car parked in a Lanier Avenue driveway March 9.

• Police were asked to check on a troubled man staying at a Pearl Road motel March 10 after he threw food and wouldn't let housekeeping in his room. A social worker said the man had been in prison for setting his group home on fire and had recently threatened suicide. 

Officers could not get him to answer the door and finally had to break it down. Inside, they found the man had slept through all the commotion and was fine.

• Someone on Stag Thicket Lane reported a suspicious situation about 1 p.m. March 10 when she saw a male walking up and down the street. She said he was headed for her garage when he saw her and took off, running to a blue pickup truck. 

Police found the vehicle and questioned the driver, who said he was driving by and saw his friend walking to work and offered him a ride.

• A woman told police March 10 she was at a Pearl Road bar on March 2 when she passed out drunk. When she awoke, her engagement ring and money were gone.