Monday, February 25, 2013
Items from the Beachwood Police Blotter
The following information was supplied by the Beachwood Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Woman falls into partially open manhole At about noon on Thursday, a women fell into a partially open manhole in the 24600 block of Chagrin Boulevard. Beachwood firefighters took her to South Pointe Hospital where she received medical treatment. Laptops stolen from cars In a span of three hours on Wednesday, three cars parked in Beachwood were broken into and laptops were taken from them. The first theft happened at 7:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the P.F. Chang's restaurant. The second occurred an hour later in the parking lot by the JCC Early Childhood Center on South Woodland Road. The …
Monday, February 18, 2013
Items from the Beachwood Police Blotter
The following information was supplied by the Beachwood Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Someone steals more than $1,000 from the Sprint kiosk Feb. 13, 8:30 p.m. — The manager of the Sprint kiosk at the Beachwood Place Mall called the police on Wednesday to report that someone had stolen the entire bank deposit for the day. The deposit is worth $1,086.42. Sephora staff spot a pair of shoplifters The staff at Sephora spotted a pair of shoplifters over the weekend. First, on Friday evening, they caught a woman trying to take $836.50 worth of merchandise. Then -- in an unrelated incident on Saturday afternoon -- they caught another woman trying to steal $230 worth of product from …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Items from the Beachwood Police Blotter
The following information was supplied by the Beachwood Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Driver crashes into building Feb. 12, 4:30 a.m. — Early Tuesday morning, a car drove into Life Time Fitness building. The car struck the building beneath a window; and, while it did some damage, the building is still structurally safe. The driver of the car did not need to be taken to the hospital for injuries. Man accused of stealing from store in Beachwood Place Feb. 11, 8:30 p.m. — A man as spotted shoplifting at the Fossil store in Beachwood Place. He is accused of taking seven things worth a total of $264. Water main burst forces road barricade Feb. 12, 9:00 a.m. — A water main burst …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Items from the Beachwood Police Blotter
The following information was supplied by the Beachwood Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Man accused of exposing himself, driving with expired license Feb. 8, 8:40 p.m. — Witnesses reported that a man was both exposing himself and driving recklessly near the intersection of Richmond Road and Chagrin Boulevard. Police stopped his vehicle and he was charged with public indecency, having an open container in the car and driving with an expired license. 'Burglar' may have been animal trapped inside house Feb. 8, 9:15 p.m. — What was initially thought to be a burglar may have been an animal that was trapped inside of a house on Sherwood Court. The resident returned home Friday evening…
Beachwood Police arrested him on charges of speeding and operating a vehicle while intoxicated Sunday
Beachwood Police arrested a Cleveland man on charges of speeding, driving without a license and driving while drunk. An officer spotted the man driving on the southbound lanes of Interstate 271 Sunday evening. According to police, the man was driving 88 mph in a 60 mph zone, making unsafe lane changes and drifting into other lanes. The officer stopped the man's car and asked him to take field sobriety tests, which he failed. The man then took a breathalyzer test, which showed his breath-alcohol content was over twice the legal driving limit, police said. The legal BAC level to drive is beneath 0.08. The driver's was more than 0.17, police said. Furthermore, the man was under 15 active driver's license suspensions. He was charged with …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Items from the Beachwood Police Blotter
The following information was supplied by the Beachwood Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Three taken to the hospital after a tow truck and car collide Feb. 4, 6:30 a.m. — Three people were taken to the hospital after a car and tow truck collided on the southbound express lanes of Interstate 271. The driver of the car -- a 33-year-old woman from Willowick -- was transported to Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights. The driver of the tow truck -- a 52-year-old man from Indiana -- and his passenger -- a 39-year-old woman, also from Indiana -- were take to the University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood. Employee suspected of shoplifting from Nordstrom Feb. 5, 12:01 p.m…
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Suspect is second to be arrested for drunken wrong-way driving on 271
The following information was supplied by the Beachwood Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. A woman arrested and charged with drunken driving is the second in two weeks whom police say they caught driving south on northbound I-271. On April 29, a man was charged with drunken driving after an officer said he spotted him driving the wrong way in the northbound express lanes. And on May 13, Beachwood Police responded to I-271 after someone called to report that a car was driving the south in the northbound lanes near the Chagrin Boulevard exit. The incident occurred at around 6 a.m. They found the car on the highway just south of Beachwood, broken down. A woman was inside. They …
Monday, May 14, 2012
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