CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio —
Theft of firearm: Monticello Boulevard
At 1:20 p.m. Nov. 24, a woman reported that someone broke out the passenger side window of her Jeep Compass as it was parked in her driveway and stole from the vehicle her sister’s 9mm gun.
The sister told police she left the gun on the passenger seat after a day of running errands. Damage to the Jeep was discovered at 11 a.m. Nov. 24.
Police were unable to collect possible DNA evidence as the women had already cleaned up the broken glass and taped plastic over the broken window.
Police believe the thief saw the gun on the seat and reached in through the broken window.
— At 6:30 p.m. Nov. 25, police were called to a home on Superior Park Drive where it was reported that a gun was stolen from a man’s GMC vehicle as it was parked in his driveway.
The man parked his truck, unlocked, when he returned home from work on Nov. 22. He didn’t get back in the vehicle until he was leaving for work the morning of Nov. 25. It was then he noticed that the 9mm gun was missing from underneath the driver’s seat.
He said the gun’s paperwork, including its serial number, also appeared to have been stolen from the glove box.
Theft from auto: Noble Road
At 6:35 p.m. Nov. 25, a woman reported that someone broke the front passenger window of her car while it was parked overnight in a lot at 2440 Noble Road, and stole from it her cell phone. The car’s interior was ransacked.
Police were unable to gather evidence as the woman drove the car to a mechanic to repair the window before reporting the theft.
— Also overnight, a woman’s car, while it was parked in a Pennfield Road driveway, had its rear passenger window broken out. The glove box was opened, but it appeared as if nothing was stolen.
— And, again on the same date, a man living on Oxford Road reported that someone smashed the rear driver’s side door of his Kia Soul and stole a bag containing coupons and restaurant gift cards.
Disturbance: Mayfield Road
At 8:50 a.m. Nov. 22, the principal at Lutheran East High School, 3565 Mayfield Road, told an off-duty officer working at the school that an incident had taken place the night before, following a basketball game at the school.
A girl, a cheerleader, was accompanied by her grandmother and stepfather as she left the game. In the parking lot, once the three were in their car, four girls approached the car wanting to fight the cheerleader. The girls held open a car door as they told the cheerleader the they wanted to fight her.
They also said they would beat up the stepfather and told him, “Shut the (expletive) up, old man.”
One of the girls also threatened the grandmother. The grandmother got out of the car and, she said, the girls dispersed.
Three of the four girls were known to the cheerleader as onetime friends who had been removed from the school.
Police contacted the mothers of the three known girls. The mothers said that they were unaware of what happened the night before.
Police told the mothers that their daughters were not permitted on the school grounds. The fourth girl’s identity could not be determined.
Disturbance: Vineshire Road
At 1:30 p.m. Nov. 23, police were dispatched to a home on Vineshire Road. A dispatcher took a 911 call in which a woman said she was scared and that “he pushed me down the stairs.” A man could be heard in the background.
At the home, the woman, who was crying, said that the father of two of her three children woke up that morning upset about something that happened at the beginning of the year.
Later, the woman was standing at the top of a staircase when the man pushed her. As she fell, the woman injured the left side of her head and left leg. The man, after she fell, punched her several times.
She was walking with a limp, but refused medical attention.
When asked, she said the man, who was not present when officers arrived, had not assaulted her in the past.
She initially told police that she wanted to purse charges against the man, but then later reconsidered and responded to all future questions from officers by saying, “I don’t know.”
OVI: Fairmount Boulevard
At 11:10 p.m. Nov. 23, police investigated a report of a car running into a tree at Fairmount Boulevard and Woodmere Road. The driver was seen running from the car. He was described as an older man wearing business attire.
An officer spotted the man on Coventry Road, running south. The officer activated his car’s emergency lights to get the man’s attention. The man looked, but continued to run into a wooded area. About 10 yards in, he stopped and said to the officer, “You got me.”
The man was unsteady as he walked. He declined to be tested for sobriety, but was, nonetheless charged with OVI.
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