Carol Kovach, special to Sun News
Breaking & entering, North Rocky River Drive: About $300 in cash was stolen late Jan. 24 or early Jan. 25 from Berea Bicycles & Scooters, 300 North Rocky River.
Someone smashed a front window of the business to get inside. Police believe a bike rack that was outside the store, or a sign above the rack, was used to break the window.
The money had been in a cash register drawer, which was yanked from the register. The shop owner said he had locked the register drawer before leaving late Jan. 24. However, anyone could have unlocked the register by pushing a button. The business had no alarm or security cameras.
Found property, Spring & Seminary streets: A Berea man, 21, landed in trouble with police after he dumped a sign that said, “No dumping.”
The man dropped the sign after noticing that police had spotted him carrying it at about 12:45 a.m. Jan. 29. The officer asked the man what he was doing with the sign. The man, a Baldwin Wallace University student, said he had found the sign at the corner of Jacob and Beech streets and thought it would look “neat” hanging in his room.
The officer advised the man to use better discretion when picking things up from the street. The man said he understood and apologized.
Grand theft auto, Emerson Drive: A 2006 Ford Explorer was stolen between 2-3 a.m. Jan. 31 from a driveway. The owner had left the vehicle unlocked and the keys inside. The victim had also left his driver’s license and $30-$40 in cash in the vehicle.
Marijuana possession, Edgewood Drive: Two Berea boys, 14 and 13, face charges in juvenile court after police caught them smoking marijuana in a shed outside a vacant house.
A citizen called police at 5:20 p.m. Jan. 30 after seeing the boys break into the shed. Police ordered the boys out of the shed, and one officer sustained a small head cut from a piece of metal in the shed.
Petty theft, Stone Ridge Circle: A backpack, hammock, rain pants and nylon rope were stolen between 10 p.m. Jan. 30 and 8 a.m. Jan. 31 from a car parked outside Stone Ridge Apartments, 6102 Stone Ridge. The victim believes he may have left his car unlocked. There were no signs of a break-in.
Marijuana possession, Stanford Drive: A Cleveland man, 19, was arrested at about 12:15 a.m. Jan. 31 after he passed a marijuana cigar to police.
A police officer had stopped the man’s Ford Ranger after seeing it drift left of center. The vehicle smelled like marijuana. When the officer asked about the odor, the man handed over the marijuana cigar, which he said he had just finished smoking.
Police found a baggie of marijuana in the man’s jacket pocket, and a digital scale and marijuana shake in his Ranger.
Marijuana possession, Front Street: A Cleveland man, 23, was cited at about 2:30 p.m. Jan. 25 after police noticed that his Buick Regal’s license plate was not displayed clearly.
The plate was propped up by a shirt in the car’s rear window. After police stopped the man on Front near Adalbert Street, they smelled marijuana in his car. Officers found a small bag of marijuana in his jeans pocket.
Overdose, West Street: A Berea man, 31, was taken to Southwest General Health Center at about 4:30 p.m. Jan. 29 after he overdosed on heroin.
A 31-year-old woman who lived with the man called police after he passed out in their driveway. When police arrived, the woman was trying to revive the man using chest compressions. His skin was blue and he had no pulse. Police gave the man Narcan, a heroin antidote, and his eyes started moving.
Paramedics arrived and continued chest compressions. The man was awake and talking before paramedics transported him to Southwest.
The woman said she had driven the man to a Cleveland drug dealer to buy heroin earlier that day. The man inhaled the heroin from the back of a cell phone in the woman’s car while it parked outside a restaurant on Ohio 237. As she drove him home, he started “nodding off.”
Police found 10 prescription pills – acetaminophen-codeine, methocarbamol, a muscle relaxer, and ranitidine, an antacid – on the woman. The pills had been prescribed to someone else. She faces drug charges.
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