Man Huffs Cleaning Product, Drives into Home: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports and incidents from departments across the region

Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Huffing while driving — A cleaning product made a Cuyahoga Falls man veer off the road on Sept. 15, causing him to crash into a home on Bailey Road. Police said the man admitted to huffing a 12-ounce can of Ultra Duster at 6:43 a.m. as he drove his 2012 Chevy Cruze down Bailey. He crossed the northbound lane, jumped a curb and drove over the front lawn of the home and into the residence. No injuries were reported. The man was cited for abusing harmful intoxicants and failure to control his vehicle. Say, "Cheese…

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Blame the GPS & Black Bear in Solon: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports from departments across the region

Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Blame it on technology: A Broadview Heights woman overlooked her .111 blood-alcohol content level on Aug. 26 when she explained to Westlake Police why she drove the wrong way on Interstate 90. Who deserved the blame? Her GPS, of course. That's what 26-year-old Jacqueline Kovach told police after she was stopped at 2:34 a.m. Police arrested her for drunk driving, an open container, no seat belt and willful and wanton disregard for safety. She drove west in the eastbound lanes near the Columbia Road overpass. …

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lyn

10:38 am on Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Well - I agree with I.M.Wright! And just maybe by putting her face here will make her think twice about ever driving drunk again. She could have killed people! Its not like she committed some small infraction. She was drunk and did not even realize when she turned the wrong way. A sober person, without an open container, would have been more aware of GPS instructions. Anyone with a basic GPS …   more ›

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Police Shoot Turtle & Man Streaks: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports from departments across the region

Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Chair thrower: A bad day turned worse for a former employee at a Twinsburg company on Summit Commerce Park. The woman's employer fired her on Aug. 22, and she responded by attacking another worker. The woman shouted obscenities at multiple employees before hurling a chair at one of them. The victim was struck in the leg and decided to press assault charges on the former employee. The company has asked police to ban the woman from the premises and make sure she stays away. Turtle down: A turtle in Avon must have …

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Masseuse Solicits Patron & Loud Sex Complaint: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports from departments across the region

Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. No happy ending here — A man went to a North Canton masseuse for a full-body massage, but ended up getting solicited for additional services. The man provided North Canton Police with a cell-phone recording of The Massage Center employee "soliciting sexual acts for hire along with prices and agreements/conditions," according to the report." The report did not include arrest information, but soliciting is a third-degree misdemeanor. Keep it down, please — Sometimes a Stow resident hears a variety of loud noises …

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James Thomas

4:31 pm on Monday, August 27, 2012

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Police Car Tarred & Drunk, Lost Man: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports from departments across the region

Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Police car tarred — What are the chances that one with three warrants would spray a police vehicle with tar? Pretty good, it turns out. Lakewood Police turned Frankie Eden over to Cleveland officers earlier this month after he accidentally sprayed pressurized tar on himself, another man and the police car on Madison Avenue. Eden, a 21-year-old Cleveland man, had been working for a pavement company when an officer asked workers to move a dump truck that was blocking the westbound lane of traffic on Madison, near W…

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Drunken Naps & Parked Car Plowing: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports from departments across the region

Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Nursing home nap: A nursing home bed can be too comfortable to pass up. A drunken man couldn't do it on Aug. 5 in North Canton. Police responded to Windsor Medical Center after a caller said a 21-year-old man was asleep in a resident's bed. He had no relation to the residents and no permission to be on the Windsor grounds. Laying down on lawns: In Stow, front lawns were the best options for a man in need of rest. A Tudor Lane resident called police to report a man sleeping in front of his home at 4 a.m. on Aug. 4…

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9:27 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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Breaking & Entering for a Cocktail: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports from departments across the region

Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. I pay the bills here — A Lakewood woman found a strange, drunk man in her home on July 30 — one who insisted he had a right to be there. The woman told police he crawled through a front window of her Newman Avenue home at 6 a.m. The man was smoking a cigarette and said he had the right to be there because he had been paying bills there for a month. Lakewood Police arrested him for trespassing and public intoxication. No place like home? — It takes a lot for a mother to turn away her son. In Solon, a woman did just…

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Two DUIs in One Night & Man in Panties: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the most bizarre police reports from departments across the region

Here are this week's weirdest police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Repeat offender — It took just three hours for a Westlake man to achieve the unthinkable. Police arrested him twice in 180 minutes for driving under the influence. First, police stopped him at 2:37 a.m. on Columbia Road for his erratic driving. His blood-alcohol content level was .144 at that point. His license was automatically suspended. He was released to his girlfriend. Officers found him again at 5:24 a.m. on Hilliard Boulevard. He blew a .098 this time around. He had taken his girlfriend's car without her …

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Marijuana Cab Fare & Sidewalk Sleeping: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports from departments across the region

Here are this week's head-scratching police calls and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Pay your way with weed — When it's time to pay a taxi driver, money and drugs are all the same, right? Jacob Bruckner, a 38-year-old of Massillon, rationalized as much on June 27 when a driver took him to a Holiday Inn near Bath Township. He owed the driver $24 and said he would go get some money from the hotel. When he returned, Bruckner handed over $15 and small bag of marijuana. The driver declined the offer, opting to call police instead. Officers got an additional $5 out of Bruckner and charged him with drug abuse…

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Underwear Thieves Escape: Best of the Blotter

Here are some of the weirdest police reports from departments across the region

As temperatures climb in Northeast Ohio, the amount of bizarre incidents reported to police departments is rising, too. Here are some of this week's weird calls and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. Pricey panties stolen: It appears that an undergarment thief made a clean getaway from SouthPark Mall in Strongsville. According to a police report, someone stole about 150 pairs of panties from a display table on June 23 at the mall's Victoria's Secret location. The panties are collectively valued at $1,362. Police have named no suspects. More VS bandits: A week earlier, the Victoria's Secret at Summit Mall …

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