Police Blotter: Woman's Ex-Lover Won't Stay Away, A Man Loses His Shoes and More St. Patty's Shenanigans

Woman's Ex-Lover Tries For Revenge, Gets Arrested

A love triangle got out of control at a Marview Drive apartment at 10:09 a.m. March 19. Police responded to a report of a man banging on an apartment door and letting the air out of the tires on a Lorain man’s 1984 Cadillac. Officers arrested the same man on March 2 for banging on the same apartment door. When officers arrived, the suspect ran into the building where the Lorain man confronted him. Both men are former lovers of the apartment resident.

While inside, the Lakewood man hit a 32-year-old resident in the face and pushed her into a wall, damaging the plaster. The suspect tried to run outside again, but was caught by police. Officers charged the man with trespassing, assault, criminal mischief, menacing and possession of criminal tools for being in possession of a screwdriver used to let air out of the Cadillac. The Lakewood man was arraigned the next day and is now in jail on a $5,000 bond.

St. Patty’s Day Shenanigans

• Police arrested a 31-year-old Westlake woman at 8:04 p.m. March 17 after she got into a loud argument with her 29-year-old boyfriend outside of her home in the 1400 block of Cedarwood Drive. The man, who had been drinking but was not intoxicated, yelled out that his girlfriend hit him. Witnesses said she did not. Officers had to push and pull the angry woman into the police cruiser. They released her to a sober adult about two hours later.

• Officers found a 27-year-old Rocky River man staggering along South Melrose Drive at 1:52 a.m. March 18. Officers arrested him and released him to a sober adult a short while afterward.

• A cab driver had some trouble waking up two passengers that had passed out at 2:52 a.m. March 18 on Detroit Road near Bassett Road. The driver picked up the two cousins, both 23, in downtown Cleveland but they passed out before giving their address. Police arrested both men, one from Westlake and the other from Niles, OH, for disorderly conduct intoxicated after they paid their cab fare. Police released them to a sober person later that morning.

•  Officers found a shoeless 23-year-old Westlake man passed out in the back entrance of a multi-family home in the 1800 block of King James Parkway at 3:46 a.m. March 18. Police arrested him for disorderly conduct intoxicated and released him at noon that day. Some of his belongings including his shoes and keys were found on the back deck of another King James Parkway residence that morning and returned to him.

Nearly $1,000 in Electronics, CDs and More Stolen From Unlocked Car

A Dave & Buster’s customer told police that someone stole at least $985 worth of electronics and other items from his unlocked 2010 VW Jetta between 9 and 10:42 p.m. March 16. The man reported a GPS, prescription medication, computer accessories, 75 compact discs, an iPod and $30 in change missing. Police have no suspects.

Man Threatened with Handgun on Interstate 90 Exit

A North Ridgeville man said a man threatened him with a handgun on Interstate 90 at 10 p.m. March 16. The victim was stopped at a traffic light on the westbound exit to Crocker Road when he made eye contact with the passenger of an SUV next to him and then looked away. The man said the passenger and driver then got out of the SUV and tried to open the victim’s door. The passenger lifted his sweater to show a semiautomatic handgun in his waistband, the victim told police. When the signal turned green, the duo got back into the SUV and left southbound on Crocker Road. The victim described the passenger as a Middle Eastern man in his mid-20s with short, dark hair and a well-trimmed thin beard. He did not give a description of the driver.