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Zachary Trigalet

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Crocker Park Drug Deal Turns Into Armed Robbery

Four people are accused of using a BB gun to hold up a man Monday evening in Westlake

Westlake police arrested four men who are accused of robbing a man Monday evening during a drug deal gone awry in Crocker Park. At 9 p.m., a North Ridgeville man reported that he had been robbed an hour earlier in a public parking garage on Vine Street. The parking garage is next to Dick's Sporting Goods.  Further investigation revealed that he had met an acquaintance there to buy marijuana, Westlake Police Capt. Guy Turner said. That acquaintance -- 19-year-old Joseph Polomsky of Westlake -- pulled out a handgun and robbed him of cash, Turner said. Polomsky was accompanied by a 17-year-old boy, as well as 20-year-old Darren Viets and 19-year-old Zachary Trigalet -- all of whom are from Westlake, police said. All of the suspects were …

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