Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A final report with information on potential consolidation savings and more should be available this summer.
Editor's note: Shaker Heights Patch will launch very soon, but we are so excited to be in the new town, we thought, why wait to start making your lives ridiculously easy? We'll be featuring occasional Shaker Heights news on neighboring sites until we launch the new site in early June, when you can add ShakerHeights.Patch.com to your browser's bookmarks! Two months could pass before residents get a clear vision of a fire department merger between Shaker Heights and University Heights. According to Emergency Services Consulting International, the firm hired to explore the cities' options, that's when some fun will ensue. "When (communities) decide to move forward with it and they actually start creating a firm implementation plan, in other …
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
At least seven bullets struck a car parked in the driveway and the home, police said.
Cleveland Heights Police arrested a 50-year-old man from Cleveland accused of firing a gun at his girlfriend's home on the 900 block of Vineshire. The incident occurred just before 6 a.m. April 24, and police arrested the suspect, Barri Scott, May 9. Scott's children also live there, police said. At least seven bullets struck a car parked in the driveway and the home, police said. No one was injured. Scott is being charged with felonious assault, menacing by stalking and domestic violence, among other charges, and is being held at the Cuyahoga County Jail on an $100,000 bond. Scott has plead guilty to carrying concealed weapons, drug possession and attempted drug abuse charges in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and was sentenced to …
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Monday, May 14, 2012
The 17-year-old Cleveland Heights resident was charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
A 17-year-old boy from Cleveland Heights was arrested May 2 and charged with carrying a concealed weapon. Cleveland Heights Police said the teen threatened a neighbor near the 1100 block of Cleveland Heights Boulevard with the unloaded, .32 caliber handgun. Two teens were with him, a 17-year-old from Cleveland and a 16-year-old from Cleveland heights, and they were arrested and charged with trespassing. Roxboro Middle School girls charged with disorderly conduct, fighting at school Two 12-year-old girls and one 13-year-old girl from Cleveland Heights got into a fight at Roxboro Middle School May 2 and were charged with disorderly conduct, according to police. One student was transported to University Hospitals at the request of her mother…
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The week's strangest police reports from departments throughout Northeast Ohio.
There's no shortage of bizarre police calls and charges in Northeast Ohio. We'll gather the zaniest of the region each Sunday in this Best of the Blotter column. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Questioned in the Nude: Twinsburg Police didn't learn much about a stolen-money accusation on May 3, but they were exposed to a naked man. The unexpected showing occurred during officers' second trip to the Warren Parkway residence that day. Police came earlier because a woman was screaming for help outside. She was being chased by the naked man's roommate, who believed the woman had stolen $1,000 from the apartment. When police returned with questions, the garment-free man said no one had taken …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Police said people fighting scattered when they arrived.
Cleveland Heights Police said there were about 100 people involved in a disturbance on Coventry Road outside of City & East just after 2 a.m. Wednesday. When officers arrived, a group of people fighting scattered, but it took police 30 minutes to clear the area, as people coming out of the hookah bar still wanted to party. Police Chief Jeffrey Robertson said every available Cleveland Heights unit was there to get the large crowd moving. Police also reported that someone broke a window at Big Dog Theater. Police did not arrest anyone, as those involved in the fight fled. This article has been clarified to indicate that 100 people were involved in a disturbance on Coventry Road. Some people were fighting, according to police, but fled when …
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2781 Euclid Heights Blvd, Cleveland, OH
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Big Dog Theater
2781 Euclid Heights Blvd, Cleveland Heights, OH
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Tommie Golphin was arrested in Pittsburgh Tuesday, according to Cleveland Heights Police.
A man accused of striking a Cleveland Heights resident with his gun and robbing a couple at their home was arrested in Pittsburgh Tuesday, according to the Cleveland Heights Police Department. Tommie Golphin, 35, of Cleveland, was supposed to appear at 8:30 a.m. Monday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. A warrant was issued on his indictment April 24, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office. The court sent summons to his last known address April 25. He is charged with aggravated robbery, felonious assault, kidnapping and having weapons under disability after prosecutors say he robbed a couple at their home on Nelaview Road. He is accused of robbing a husband and wife in their driveway after they came home from the …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
A 35-year-old from Cleveland accused of beating a Cleveland Heights man with his gun and robbing a couple in their driveway didn't appear for his arraignment in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Monday.
A man accused of striking a Cleveland Heights resident with his gun and robbing a couple at their home didn't show up to court Monday for his arraignment. Tommie Golphin, 35, of Cleveland, was supposed to appear at 8:30 a.m. in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. He is charged with aggravated robbery, felonious assault, kidnapping and having weapons under disability after prosecutors say he robbed a couple at their home on Nelaview Road. He is accused of robbing a husband and wife in their driveway after they came home from the overnight shift Dec. 18. Prosecutors say Golphin attacked the man with his handgun. The wife scared the suspect by pressing her car horn, and the defendant fled on foot. He was later identified through DNA evidence…
Monday, May 7, 2012
The victim, a 29-year-old from Richmond Heights, chased the suspect to Cleveland.
A 29-year-old from Richmond Heights said he was pulling into the Coventry Food Mart lot around 2:54 p.m. April 26 when someone got into his car and robbed him at gunpoint The suspect stole money, jumped out of the victim’s car and got into another car. The Richmond Heights resident followed the suspect to Cleveland but lost him. Cleveland Heights Police are still investigating. Men attempt to set Cain Park bench on fire Two men tried to set a park bench on Fire in Cain Park around 7:30 p.m. April 27. Police found leaves and grass on fire on the bench, but it never caught. Teens charged with inducing panic Police charged a group of teens from Cleveland Heights with inducing panic after at least one teen revealed what looked like a firearm …
Friday, May 4, 2012
The men each face three counts stemming from a what federal officials say was a plan to blow up a Brecksville bridge.
The five men arrested in the plot to blow up a bridge in Brecksville have now been indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday. The self-proclaimed anarchists will each face three counts stemming from a plan hatched over several months to blow up the State Route 82 bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Brandon Baxter, 20, of Lakewood, Douglas L. Wright, 26, Anthony Hayne, 35, Connor C. Stevens, 20, and Joshua S. Stafford, 23, face charges including one count of attempted use of an explosive. The men had hoped to use C-4 explosives to blow up the bridge, after deciding against other targets such as the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland and the Detroit-Superior Bridge, according to an affidavit…
Cleveland Heights Police officers say families have told them they feel safer in parks.
Police Officer Larry Rieck said Cleveland Heights residents have told him they feel safer in Cain Park now that he and three other officers are patrolling the area on bikes. “Families who said they haven’t come to the park in years are back … families feel safe here because the bike patrol unit has been formed,” said Rieck. “That credit goes toward (Chief Jeffrey Robertson,) who created this very valuable asset.” Robertson implemented the bike patrol program a year ago to help make Cain, Cumberland, and Forest Hill parks safer, but there were other reasons, too. “Our guys are out there meeting the public one on one, talking to the kids. It’s a lot easier, as I’ve said, for a resident to approach a bicycle officer than a policeman in a car…
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Cumberland Park
1740 Cumberland Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH
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Forest Hill Park
2370 Lee Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH
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Torri K
12:23 am on Monday, May 14, 2012
Police in Strongsville have nothing better to do than return a drunk woman's purse to her after she left it in a friend's car! I hope no one was driving while intoxicated on I71 during that time. more ›