Officers solve mystery of fur coat mix-up at Hunt Club: Gates Mills Police Blotter

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Shortly after midnight Jan. 14, a caller reported that he had been assaulted at a business. The alleged suspect had left the scene. Police are reviewing video footage. Charges are pending an investigation. Welfare check: West Street. After a woman passed out at 11:52 p.m. Jan. 18, a family member...

On Jan. 8, police observed a weaving black Buick Encore driving the wrong way in a construction zone on York Road with its high beams on. Due to construction, the road only allowed one-way traffic heading west. The Encore was heading east, causing other drivers to move between construction barrels to avoid getting hit.

A driver was stopped on Ryan Road near Lafayette Road at 3:17 p.m. Jan. 30 for a marked lanes violation and was arrested for operating a motor vehicle while impaired. A resident called police at 12:34 p.m. Jan. 27 to report that a neighbor had ridden their dirt bike in the caller’s yard.

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- On the heels of a video that went viral last week concerning a traffic stop confrontation and arrest in September, Mayor Kahlil Seren has updated residents on his calls for greater executive oversight of the police department. The narrated video criticizes police handling of a man...

AKRON, Ohio — A man threatened a manager with a handgun during the robbery of a Family Dollar store in East Akron, police say. The robbery occurred just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the store located on the corner of Archwood Avenue and South Arlington Street. A worker at the store tells police the suspect was seen stuffing electronic merchandise into his pockets.

Police attempted to pull over a driver at 10:03 a.m. Jan. 3 for driving in rainy conditions without headlights, in violation of Ohio law. The man reportedly fled and threw something out the window during the chase, which was later joined by officers from the Cuyahoga Heights Police Department. The...

An officer at 12:18 a.m. Jan. 15 stopped an SUV on Grace Road near Brookpark Road after watching the vehicle driving on the wrong side of the roadway. The officer had spotted the vehicle turning from Columbia Road onto Brookpark Road and heading eastbound in the westbound lane of travel. A median separates the eastbound and westbound lanes.

On Jan. 13, a driver called police regarding a road rage incident that began in Cleveland. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – The city has hired a Mentor engineering, architectural and planning firm to oversee the reconstruction of a one-lane covered bridge on Whitney Road. CT Consultants Inc. will act as the project’s construction manager. The city will pay the firm no more than $202,074, under a contract approved by City Council earlier this month.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – City prosecutors last week charged a Cleveland man with aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony, stemming from an Old Brooklyn carjacking that occurred Jan. 21. One problem: Apparently, authorities failed to check on the suspect’s whereabouts. If they had, they would have learned the suspect has been...

OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio -- Every name has a story. Mine has a sidebar to it. Nancy was my parents’ original choice. However, a close family friend had a girl just prior to my birth and named her Nancy. So, Joanne Jeanne Berger came to be -- me.

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- Readers: It may be a dark moment for you, with sadness, as you read this -- or one infused with a sunbeam symbolizing hope. For me, as I compose this column (as on many days), it is both. That is the diurnal nature of night and day, decline and rebirth. And through the alternation of rest and activity, perhaps we can find a way toward balance.

BRECKSVILLE, Ohio -- Residents, speaking at a Jan. 26 public hearing on the proposed mixed-use section of Valor Acres, expressed concerns that crime, flooding, bright lights and low-rent housing might result from the development. Some residents also didn’t care for the five-story height of each proposed building in the 24-acre...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Authorities arrested a man and a woman Tuesday in connection with a fatal shooting that happened two weeks ago in Cleveland’s Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood. Amira Duncan, 24, of Garfield Heights and Dajhawn Taylor, 27, of Cleveland were wanted by police on charges of aggravated murder. On...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 61-year-old Cleveland man pleaded guilty this week to rape and sexual battery charges after investigators used DNA from a genealogy company to tie him to two decades-old rapes. Leo Bradley Scott III, is set to be sentenced March 3 in the attacks that occurred in 1994...

PENINSULA, Ohio – The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad will resume its regular schedule and events Feb. 3, the railroad announced this week. Last October, the National Park Service closed some portions of the railroad due to “significant erosion from the Cuyahoga River,” according to a news release. The closures caused the scenic railroad to cancel some trips and modify others. Since then, an engineering firm has worked to remediate areas with significant erosion. The work was paid for by $14 million in Great American Outdoors Act funding.

CLEVELAND, Ohio— A Painesville man is facing federal charges after authorities found more than 60 pounds of cocaine and fentanyl inside a storage locker in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood. Ronald Rendon-Luna is accused of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl. U.S. District Magistrate Judge Thomas Parker...

BAY VILLAGE, Ohio – Jeremy Gillespie was standing on the patio of his Air Bnb in Hawaii on Friday watching a storm roll over the beach. The 27-year-old Bay Village firefighter noticed as Maui County officials responded to several flooding incidents along the shore Jan. 27. “Then, I saw...

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- Less than nine months after it was officially closed to through traffic when an inspection revealed a dangerous structural deficiency, the Memphis Avenue bridge officially reopens at 5 p.m. today (Jan. 30) in Brooklyn. “It’s ahead of schedule, which in today’s day and age is even more...