MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio
Impaired driving: South Park
Officers responded to the parking lot at the city pool July 29 for a report of a man drinking beer in his car.
They located him and asked what he was doing. He said, “The same thing I always do -- drinking beer in the car.”
He said he only had one beer, which was mixed with his medications, and that he is allowed to drive while taking his medicine.
The 42-year-old Chelmsford Road resident was arrested for OVI.
Juvenile complaints: Drury Lane
Officers checked on a report of several youths shooting one another with pellet guns July 28, but did not locate any activity.
A woman said it was her children and that they were using water pellet guns. She was advised of the complaint.
While officers were on scene, a neighbor began yelling intimidating ethnic slurs directed to the woman. The neighbor was advised to stop or risk being cited for disorderly conduct.
Stolen vehicle: Mayfield Road
A resident of the Gates Mills Place apartments reported July 28 that he woke to find his cell phone, car keys and wallet missing.
He subsequently found that his vehicle had been stolen from the parking lot.
Officers learned that the man’s brother had brought a woman to his home the previous night for drinking and games. The brother, whose cell phone was stolen as well, said he had met the woman two days earlier on a dating app.
He said she told him she had been in prison for robbery. He had picked her up from an apartment complex in Cleveland, but was not certain of her real name.
His phone was subsequently returned to him after it was located in Cleveland by a man who was not involved.
The incident is under investigation.
Theft: Golden Gate Boulevard
Best Buy management reported Aug. 2 that the Mentor store had just had a theft of three display iPhones and that they believed the suspect was traveling to their location next.
Officers arrived to look for the suspect’s vehicle, but then learned that the suspect had been there already and had also stolen three phones.
North Olmsted police later reported that the Best Buy in that city had a similar theft weeks ago.
Discharging firearms: Eastgate Plaza
A Twinsburg man, 63, shot himself in the leg while in his car as he was driving to Hillcrest Hospital for training of an unspecified nature.
He drove himself to the ER. He later said the gun discharged when he was placing it into the driver’s side door panel.
He was cited for discharging a firearm.
Fraud: Mayfield Road
A woman said July 30 that she had paid $1,400 through PayPal as a home rental deposit, but when she drove by the home in South Euclid, she saw that someone was moving into it.
She had no longer been able to contact the supposed lister.
Officers found the suspect’s phone number listed with other rental postings and suspected that someone was cloning posts with his phone number to try to scam people.
Property damage: Eastwood Avenue
A man’s truck was shot with water pellets while parked in the roadway July 29 while he was working at a home. There was minor damage caused to the driver’s side mirror.
Disorderly conduct: Marsol Road
Two women fought in the parking lot of the Drake apartments July 30, and one was subsequently dragged as she hung onto the other’s fleeing vehicle.
That woman was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Officers learned that the fight had started because one of the women had made the other a meal to take to work with her and became upset because she didn’t want to stay at her apartment after her shift.
Neither was cited because they did not live together and their relationship was over.
Suspicion: Golden Gate Boulevard
Best Buy management reported Aug. 3 that a woman had tried to return items that she had stolen earlier in the day. Police are investigating.
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