Crime & Safety

Police Blotter: Selling Drugs at the Drugstore, Assault and Unruly Juveniles

This week in police news.

Drug paraphernalia

A man was arrested and charged with drug paraphernalia around 8 a.m. April 12 after he was standing outside of the on Detroit Avenue and 117th Street trying to sell his prescription.

Unruly children

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A student at St. James School on Northwood Avenue attacked his teacher during dismissal at around 3 p.m. April 12. The boy had to be subdued in front of the church on Detroit Avenue. The boy was charged with felonious assault.

Police received a call around 5 p.m. that a 10-year-old boy tried to stab his baby sibling with a pencil in the 1500 block of Robinwood Avenue. When his mother tried to stop him, he charged at her with a butcher knife. The boy was taken to Fairview Hospital for observation.

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Police were notified around noon April 14 of a boy at who brought a knife to school.

Suspicion

Two men were seen running from a vacant house on Beach Avenue, just north of the railroad tracks, at around 9:30 p.m. April 13. The house was re-secured and nothing appeared to be tampered with — but the two men had left by the time officers arrived.

Receiving stolen property

A Cleveland man told police that his daughter’s Cleveland home had been burglarized sometime April 13, and that her boyfriend was selling her belongings at a home in the 2000 block of Lewis Avenue. When Lakewood police officers arrived, the man was charged with receiving stolen property. The Cleveland Police Department was advised of the original complaint.

Assault

A man came to counter at the at around 1 a.m. April 14 and told officers that his wife struck him with her car. He suffered minor injuries. The man’s wife was charged with assault. 

Compiled by police reports.

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