BEACHWOOD, Ohio — An alleged “creepy” look from a man towards a 16-year-old girl led to a disturbance in the Beachwood Place mall food court.
At 2:50 p.m. Oct. 6, officers were dispatched to the mall’s food court on a report of a fight involving two juveniles and a man.
The juveniles, 16-year-old brother and sister twins, were found in the mall lot with their mother, while the man was stopped for questioning near the exit of Dillard’s.
The mother told police she knew nothing of the incident and that she had just arrived to pick up her daughter from her job at the mall, 26300 Cedar Road.
The girl told police that she was in the food court ordering a smoothie when she noticed the man looking at her in a “creepy” manner. She told her brother, who then approached and confronted the man about the way he was looking at his sister.
A disagreement followed during which the boy threw his food order at the man.
The boy said the 300-pound man, 56, of Cleveland Heights, had threatened to physically harm him and his sister.
The teens’ mother told police that she wished to pursue a menacing charge against the man.
The man first gave police a false name and said he didn’t want to pursue the matter. He then said he did not have identification on his person and that his ID was in his car.
Police walked the man to his car, a 2006 Maserati Quattroporte registered to a mechanics business, and he then said he realized his ID was not actually in the vehicle. An officer next brought from the police station a portable fingerprinting device to the mall lot.
The man, at first, refused to be fingerprinted, then had one fingerprint taken. The device, however, needed two fingerprints to determine his identity, and the man refused to give a second.
He was handcuffed and told, because he faces a charge, he could not leave until he was identified.
A commercial driver’s license found in his car revealed the man’s identity and that he was wanted by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office for a parole violation.
Police arrested the man on the warrant. He also faces the menacing charge.
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