Driver adds new meaning to the term ‘scofflaw:’ Orange Police Blotter
ORANGE, Ohio
Speeding, operating a vehicle while impaired: Harvard Road
A westbound patrol officer turned on the radar for an approaching Dodge Charger initially clocked at 63 mph at 2:43 a.m. Oct.
19. Then the driver accelerated to 70 mph — double the posted speed limit — as he drove by the cruiser.
The officer turned around and followed the Elgin, Ill., man, 38, back to the Pinecrest parking garage, where he noticed signs of impairment and a strong odor of alcohol on his breath.
The driver said he had been at the Crazy Horse night club for about an hour, where he had consumed two or three IPA beers. After failing his field sobriety tests, the man was taken to the Solon Jail, where he refused a Breathalyzer. In the meantime, a sergeant had arrived at the parking garage and took the keys to his rental car.
He was charged and given a courtesy ride back to the AC Marriott hotel.
Accident Investigation Unit (AIU) callout, truck-motorcycle: U.S.
422
Officers with the AIU were called out to reconstruct an accident that occurred on the freeway west of Harper Road at 6:18 p.m. Oct.
21 involving a Freightliner truck and a motorcycle. Initial reports indicated that the motorcyclist was lying on the ground but was conscious and using his belt as a tourniquet on his injured leg after suffering severe trauma and injuries to his lower body.
He was transported to MetroHealth Hospital, with further information unavailable as the investigation continued.
Identity theft, fraud (checks or negotiable instruments), mail fraud: Orange Tree Drive
A resident reported Oct.
18 that earlier in the month, someone stole mail from his home, including bank checks from Chase, Huntington and Citizens. Two fraudulent purchases were then made at a Cleveland Walmart, using one of his Chase checks for £570, and a Huntington check for £669.
The resident had already contacted the banks, who requested a police report that was forwarded to the Orange detective bureau and U.S. Postal inspectors.
Theft of credit cards: Harvard Road
A University Heights woman reported Oct.
20 that around 7 p.m. the night before, her Fidelity Rewards Visa credit card was stolen from her purse while she was sitting at the bar in BJ’s Brewhouse (although the adjacent Cooper’s Hawk Winery is also listed on the report). She also told police that staff witnesses the theft, with management planning to pull video footage to aid in the investigation.
Theft-parts from motor vehicle: Orange Place
A Massillon woman reported she parked her 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander in the first space of the Hampton Inn’s south parking lot at 5:20 p.m. Oct.
20. When she returned and started the car back up at 7:30 a.m. Oct.
21, she noticed how loud it was. Checking underneath, she found that the catalytic converter had been stolen overnight.
Less than a week earlier (Oct.
15[1]) another catalytic converter was stolen from a Mitsubishi Outlander parked at the Hampton Inn, probably before a woman reportedly broke up an attempted theft on her Outlander when she came out of the Drury Inn & Suites at 7:30 a.m. and found a man under her SUV.
And it was at least the fifth theft or attempt on an Outlander in Orange Village since April[2].
Aggravated menacing: Park Avenue
A man, no age or address listed, came to the police station on the afternoon of Oct.
21 to report that after he and his girlfriend of five months met at Pinecrest to go to a bar that day, they got into an argument as they were walking back to their cars.
Allegedly while clutching a firearm in her purse, he said she told him he would be dead that night and his mother would be crying. He said he then got a call from her brother saying that if he did not agree to meet with him, he would shoot up his mother’s house.
Since the mother’s house is in Cleveland, police there were alerted.
In the meantime, Orange police looked up the driver’s license photo of the girlfriend and filed a menacing charge against her, with the boyfriend also requesting a protection order.
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References
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- ^ cleveland.com/newsletters (www.cleveland.com)
- ^ Chagrin Solon Sun (www.cleveland.com)