Crime & Safety
Crash is Just Beginning of Trouble
The following arrest information was provided by the Westlake Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Bad driving started a bad day for a 24-year-old North Olmsted man on May 13.
He rear-ended another car at Clague Road and Hilliard Blvd. around 2:09 a.m. The impact pushed the other car into a third car. The man begged the other drivers not to call police, and drove away when they did.
Unfortunately for him, a Rocky River auxiliary officer was on the scene and followed the man to the North Olmsted home of the mother of his girlfriend, the car's owner. The man ran off.
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The man turned out to have outstanding warrants in Parma and North Olmsted. He turned himself in later that morning to and faces charges of possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, driver's license required violation, assured clear distance violation, and hit-skip.
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