Crime & Safety
Friend Tries to Warn Man About Cops, Both Get Charged
The following arrest information was provided by the Westlake Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A borrowed car, a friendly warning and a short game of hide-and-seek led to charges against two men.
A Westlake police officer spotted a white Corvette around 10:43 a.m. on August 6. The car was known to be driven by a 36-year-old Medina man with six outstanding warrants.
When officers stopped the car on Center Ridge Road, the driver wasn't the Medina man but a 59-year-old friend of his from Brunswick. He told police the Medina man was at his Westwood Road business, and led officers back there.
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The Brunswick man then decided to do his friend a favor, pounding on the door as he opened it and yelling that he had the cops with him.
Warned about the police, the Medina man tried to hide under some boxes. It didn't work. He was served with the warrants and the Brunswick man was arrested for obstruction of justice.
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