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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Strongsville Police Blotter: Gun-Toting Woman Alarms Teens

Reports Jan. 31-Feb. 3

A woman asking some teens about the safety of a Whitney Road apartment building went a little too far in showing how she protects herself. A report said the woman opened her coat to display a gun. The incident took place about 3 p.m. Jan. 3. A 16-year-old told his father the woman stopped him and a friend at the elevator when they arrived home from school and asked them questions about the safety of the building. She then told them she had a gun and opened her coat to show them. The youth got the woman's license plate number and gave it to police. In other news: • Underwear with notes and e-mail addresses was found in laundry rooms on the second, third and fourth floors of a Pearl Road apartment building Feb. 3. Management told police they…

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3:04 am on Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The story is all wrong! The woman did not show a teen a gun, the teen (not teens there was only 1 of them) was telling the woman that the neighborhood was bad and that all the teens vandalize cars and carry guns in thier back and then reached for his back! The woman then said thats why I carry a gun. The woman is a concealed carry permit holder, and even though she is legal to "open carry" in …   more ›

Friday, February 4, 2011

Strongsville Police Blotter: Intruder Breaks In, Kills Fish

Reports from Jan. 31-Feb. 3

A resident at a Whitney Road apartment told police someone broke into his apartment Jan. 31 and killed his fish. Police said the apartment door was broken and there were bubbles in the fish tank as if someone had poured in soap. The fish were reportedly expensive exotic fish.  The tenant called back later to say the man he believed killed his fish was in a car in the parking lot. The car was gone when police arrived. In other news: • About 25 mailboxes on West 130th Street appeared to be tampered with the morning of Feb. 1. A witness said 10 boxes were knocked down and the doors on 15 others were open.  Police found the open mailboxes were all plastic with magnetic closings. "This is not vandalism but the work of the snow plow," a report …

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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

Reports from Jan. 14-16

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 GFS Marketplace, 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. • …

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Monday, January 3, 2011

Strongsville Police Blotter: Masked Visitor Makes Startling Appearance

Reports from Dec. 31 and Jan. 1

A Compass Point Drive resident got a fright when she heard someone tap on the back window about 9 p.m. Jan. 1 and looked up to see someone in a white mask looking back at her. She fled upstairs and did not see where the visitor went, a report said. The intruder failed to set off the motion-activated lights in the back yard, but police found the screen in the back window had been knocked out. In other Strongsville police news: • A caller reported that someone on Whitney Road was firing a machine gun about 11:45 p.m. on New Year's Eve. Officers went to the area, but heard no weapons. • An Oakland Park Drive resident called police Jan. 1 when she got home and her car's lights would not go off. Officers determined the car had a wiring problem …

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Strongsville Police Department and WalMart

Monday, December 27, 2010

Blotter: Crime Doesn't Take a Holiday

Police reports from Dec. 20-26

 A motorist called police after getting into a traffic altercation with the driver of a slightly bigger, tougher vehicle. The driver said he was behind a bulldozer on Howe Road at Royalton Road about 3:30 p.m. Dec. 20 and noticed the bucket appeared loose enough to fall on his car. He got in front of the dozer, but said the driver then put down the front bucket "as if to scoop up" his car, a report said. Police tracked down the dozer driver, who denied being involved. In other police news: • A guest at a holiday party on Idlewood Trail found a new way to say Merry Christmas -- by pulling a switcheroo in the medicine cabinet. The resident contacted police Dec. 22 to say she had just noticed about 60 Hydrocodone pills in her bathroom were …

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Presents For the Procrastinator

Friday, December 17, 2010

Blotter: Police Say Texts Were No Laughing Matter

Police reports from Dec. 13-16

A Webster Road man called police after his son received threatening text messages from someone claiming he was going to kill both father and son. A message sent Dec. 16 also described items in their house, leading police to believe the suspect was in the home or had been there in the past. Turns out, he had -- he lives there. A younger brother was sending the messages from a friend's computer. A report said the boy thought the prank was funny. Police advised him it wasn't. In other police news: • A 19-year-old driver who may have been doing donuts behind Costco, 16690 Royalton Rd., early Dec. 13 got his car stuck on a curb. Police found the vehicle there, along with a pile of fast food trash, about 1:30 a.m. and called the owner, who said …

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