ORANGE, Ohio
Disturbance, disorderly conduct, menacing by stalking: Miles Road, Beacon Hill Drive
With more than two dozen dispatch reports logged since 2020 — and numerous incidents even before he moved to town — a habitual offender, 60, faced new charges after his latest run-in, a vulgar tirade directed at 5-year-old twins playing in the driveway of a neighboring home on the evening of May 30.
Police said that he approached them from his abutting Miles backyard property where “unprovoked, he belligerently yelled grossly abusive and offensive obscenities at the pair.” Their mother took them inside the house, and officers spoke to her as well as a half-dozen neighbors along Beacon Hill Drive.
They said he makes them feel like prisoners in their homes and friends of one teenage girl are now reluctant to come over. At least one neighbor had video footage of him in action.
Police met with the man, possibly intoxicated, who turned his racist and homophobic invective on them as his wife tried to get him to go inside their house, blaming it all on his medication.
Officers conferred with the Orange Police Chief Chris Kostura and village prosecutor Blair Melling, who recommended the misdemeanor charges. Attempts to serve the man with the charges at 11:20 p.m. where unsuccessful when no one answered the door.
Lanes of travel, reckless operation, drunk driving, open container, auto towed: Brainard, Emery roads
A patrol officer southbound on Brainard around 3 a.m. May 30 reported that an oncoming Lexus RX350 went left of center, causing him to swerve to avoid a head-on collision.
He turned around and at speeds surpassing 80 mph caught up to the weaving driver, a Cleveland-Miles Park neighborhood woman, 61, who blamed her subpar driving on checking her cellphone while she was lost and looking for a friend’s house.
She initially denied drinking anything other than mineral water, but later admitted to consuming alcoholic seltzer at a bar in Warrensville Heights with a friend — as well as an open can of High Noon Peach found in her glove box. She refused a Breathalyzer test at the Solon jail.
Drunk driving, disobeying a traffic device, slow speed (impeding traffic), obstructing an intersection, improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle, having weapons while intoxicated: I-271, Harvard Road
Police responded to the northbound interstate Harvard exit ramp at 4:03 a.m. June 4 on a report of a Chevy Impala with Kentucky plates stopped in the intersection with the driver sleeping and not responding to the caller’s car horn.
Police also had difficulty keeping him awake after pulling a cruiser in front of his car. The South Euclid man, 38, drifted in and out of sleep during questioning after taking his shoes off in the car.
Officers recovered a Smith & Wesson pistol with a magazine inserted containing 15 rounds, along with three other magazines with a total of 24 rounds, as well as a Gerber long knife, all inside the car.
He registered .182 blood-alcohol content on the Breathalyzer at the Solon jail, more than twice the legal limit of .08 BAC.
Departmental information (stolen vehicle): Wall Street
Police and Pinecrest security officers were dispatched to the parking garage June 4, where a Cuyahoga Falls man, 33, reported he had parked his 2022 Mitsubishi Eclipse on the ramp to the second level, locked it and taken the keys with him around 7 p.m.
When he returned at 9:30 p.m. the car was gone with officers finding no evidence of any broken glass at the scene.
A check of investigative camera tools, police found that the car was last tracked heading north on Orange Place Drive at Harvard Road — possibly when it was still in the owner’s possession.
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