Drunk driving woman has difficulty following officer’s instructions: Beachwood police blotter
OVI: Richmond Road
At 1:50 a.m. Jan. 4, an officer was alerted to a hit-skip crash that had just occurred in South Euclid. The suspect vehicle, a dark-colored Toyota, was reported to be traveling south on South Belvoir Boulevard.
A Beachwood officer waited near the boulevard and two minutes later saw the Toyota drive past at high speed. The officer paced the car as traveling 65 miles per hour on Cedar Road, where the speed limit is 35 MPH.
The car was seen multiple times weaving between lanes. The officer stopped the car at Cedar and Richmond roads. The car came to an immediate stop in the lane of oncoming traffic before then moving to the proper lane.
The driver told police she was coming from a bar at Cedar and Lee roads in Cleveland Heights, where she admitted to consuming two shots.
Police observed damage to her car’s front left bumper and tire rim. The woman said she could not find her proof of insurance.
Suspecting she was intoxicated, an officer instructed the woman to recite the alphabet from the letter D to Q, without singing. She proceeded to sing the alphabet from A to Z.
She was again given the same instruction, but said in reply, “I understand, however, I’m a mother of kids. I’m not going to start there (at D). I’m not going to lie to you.” She then again sang the entire alphabet.
Police next asked her to count backwards from 65 to 49. The woman, however, went backwards from 65 to 26, stopped, and asked if she should stop.
She failed field sobriety testing and was arrested for OVI. She was found to have a blood-alcohol content of .220, well above the state minimum for drunk driving of .08.
The woman, 24, of Beachwood, was additionally charged with having a prohibited BAC of greater than .17, speeding, failing to signal, and making an improper turn.
South Euclid police are investigating the hit-skip incident, which could result in further charges against the woman.
Theft from auto: Beachwood Boulevard
At 6 p.m. Jan. 3, a Beachwood Boulevard resident, 27, reported that that someone had entered his car, parked in his driveway, and took from it his wallet. The car had been left unlocked.
The man later received two alerts about fraudulent uses of his credit card.
A glove had been left by the suspect inside the car.
The theft occurred sometime between 5 p.m. Jan. 2 and 6 p.m. Jan. 3.
Theft: Chagrin Boulevard
At 8:05 p.m. Jan. 2, police were called to Giant Eagle, 24601 Chagrin Blvd., on a report of a shoplifting incident.
At the store, loss prevention personnel informed police that a male filled his shopping cart with 33 items totaling $558.77, then attempted to leave with the merchandise without paying.
Loss prevention stopped the man outside of the store and got back the stolen goods. The man then went to a black hatchback vehicle and drove from the store’s lot.
Police examined automated license plate readers, but were unable to attain the hatchback’s license plate number.
Auto theft: East Groveland Road
At 12:25 p.m. Jan. 3, an East Groveland Road woman, 43, reported that her 2017 Toyota Corolla had been stolen from her driveway.
The woman told police that she parked the car on Jan. 2 and discovered it missing at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 3. She still had the car’s key in her possession. Security cameras at her home were not working.
Police automated license plate readers captured the car being driven at 3:08 a.m. on Fairmount Boulevard, and a minute later on Shaker Boulevard, at Green Road.
OVI: South Woodland Road
At 9:15 p.m. Jan. 2, an officer watched as a Jeep Wrangler sped past on South Green Road. The officer followed the Jeep as it stopped at a red light.
When the light turned green, the Jeep quickly accelerated and was soon after clocked at 54 miles per hour. The speed limit on the street is 35 MPH.
The officer also saw the Jeep, several times, nearly strike the curb.
A traffic stop was conducted and, when asked, the driver denied having consumed alcohol or drugs. Her speech, however, was slurred and her eyes, glassy.
The woman told the officer that she was coming from a friend’s house in Waterville, Ohio, which she said is about an hour away.
As the officer spoke to the woman, she was going through her phone trying to find her proof of insurance. At one point, though, she stopped and asked the officer what he needed, apparently forgetting she was looking for insurance proof.
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Police arrested the 38-year-old Cleveland woman for OVI. When asked the whereabouts of her vehicle’s ignition key, the woman said she did not know and that she usally keeps it in a cup holder in her Jeep. Later, while being searched, the key was found on a lanyard around her neck.
She failed field sobriety tests and refused to provide a breath sample. Her license was suspended, and she was additionally cited for speeding.
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Police Log: Constitutional Yelling, Suspended License x 6
From the East Greenwich police logs and reports, Oct. 6-14
Monday, October 6
8:50 a.m. – Police picked up an injured kitten from Division Road and brought it to North Kingstown Animal Hospital, where they said it would be kept for a three-day stray hold.
1:38 p.m. – A caller said they were hit by a car at Middle Road and South County Trail and the other driver kept going – heading west on Middle Road. EGPD alerted West Warwick and Coventry police.
Tuesday, October 7
11:16 a.m. – Staff at East Greenwich High School turned in a bike that they said had been behind the school for a while. Police found it had a tag on it with the name of an apartment complex in Warren.
4:31 p.m. – An EG man told police he was being trolled on social media by a Massachusetts man over a job he did in Massachusetts earlier this year. EGPD reached out to the police in the community where the Massachusetts man lives and forwarded the report.
5:06 p.m. – Police arrested a Providence man, 30, for driving with a suspended license after pulling him over on Main Street for not having a front registration plate and not using a blinker. While following him, police noticed the man kept turning off Main Street and circling back, seemingly to avoid them. They found he had six prior convictions for driving with a suspended license and brought him to the station for processing.
9:49 p.m. – Police arrested an East Greenwich woman, 43, for domestic violence and disorderly conduct after her mother said she hit her during an argument. Police said the woman appeared intoxicated when they arrived and her sister confirmed there had been an argument and while she did not see anything physical, she did hear a thud sound. They took her into custody and brought her to the station for processing.
Wednesday, October 8
5 p.m. – A caller from Mallard Way said a truck drives erratically every day in the neighborhood. Police found the driver was a youth and spoke to their parents.
Thursday, October 9
1:35 a.m. – An employee at the Seasons gas station on South County Trail told police a customer made her uncomfortable after asking her to buy him cigarettes because he was underage and then asking to make out, according to the police report. She said she originally gave him a cigarette, then he left and came back several times before walking away down the road.
5 p.m. – A caller said her son had been approached by a man around 30 years old after he got off the bus by Showcase Cinemas. The man allegedly asked the youth to attend a movie with him. The boy ran home and told his mother. Later, police found someone matching the man’s description unconscious in the woods behind the theater, according to the police report.
Friday, October 10
1:46 a.m. – A caller told police they had parked in the Main Street municipal lot and their car was no longer there. A little bit later, police found the car parked on Main Street across from the Greenwich Hotel. They could not reach the car owner.
7:57 a.m. – Police arrested an East Greenwich man, 44, for disorderly conduct after he allegedly screamed and swore at several customers in the BankRI parking lot at 1000 Division Street. When police arrived at the plaza, the man was in front of the Dave’s entrance, still yelling at people. He was known to police for yelling in this manner and told police it was his constitutional right.
4:09 p.m. – An EG woman told police she contacted her bank (Bank of America) after both her credit and debit cards got declined and found someone had tried to order a duplicate of her card from Texas so the bank paused her account. She said some money had been withdrawn from her account in Texas.
5:05 p.m. – An EG woman told police she received a PayPal credit card in the mail that she didn’t apply for. PayPal then told her someone made a $750 charge on the card in Santo Domingo and they canceled it after that, deciding it was fraudulent. She also found an inquiry was made into her credit report by Lending Tree, but no loans were taken out in her name.
Saturday, October 11
8:44 a.m. – Police pulled over a woman driving a car with a suspended registration on Main Street and found her license was suspended too, so they issued her citations and had her car towed.
Monday, October 13
11:15 a.m. – A Cumberland man told police he was physically assaulted at a rental storage facility on South County Trail after refusing to let another car drive through the gate, using his access code, as he left. The man said he and the other people got out of their cars and eventually they punched him while the manager of the facility held him to be hit. The manager denied that he was involved and said the man didn’t call the police immediately after the incident because he was intoxicated at the time.
Tuesday, October 14
5:25 p.m. – The president of the Homeowners Association on Sanctuary Drive told police two residents had recently been approached by someone who said they were there to repair damages inside the homes, which the president found unusual.
