Carnies Exchange Barbs, Then Blows: In the Blotters

This week in the Westlake Police blotters:

Two carnival workers, a 21-year-old Lorain man and 24-year-old Cleveland man, taunted each other with racial and sexual slurs on the afternoon of June 26 while setting up at St. Bernadette Church. It came to blows after two days of verbal exchanges; the City Prosecutor will review the report for possible charges.

Also in the blotters: Japanese national hitchhiking, poop on the golf course

A hitchhiker was reported on I-90 westbound on June 26 at 1:30 p.m. The man was a 32-year-old Japanese national heading for Chicago. After being cautioned about the city’s occidental ride-thumbing laws and given a lift in a Westlake Police Department cruiser to a truck stop in Avon, he was bid farewell.   

Meadowood Golf course was vandalized on the night of June 23. A controller for the sprinkler system was damaged, as were greens, flags, and trash cans. A perp even moved his bowels into the fifth hole.

Per Westlake Police: “That’s a sign of a perverted or deeply disturbed person. Get some mental help quick.”