AKRON, OH (WOIO) - Police in Akron are looking for two men who broke into a jewelry store over the weekend. It happened at Taylor Made Jewelry on Wedgewood Drive around 11:40PM on Sunday. The suspects crashed their Jeep through the front doors to gain entry. Once inside, they grabbed a bunch of jewelry and fled.
NORTH OLMSTED, OH (WOIO) - A man claiming to be a judge's son busted for shoplifting. 32-year-old Joseph Russo was arrested on February 7th at Marc's. Police say Russo was with a small child when he cut open a $99 DVD package, put it with his personal belongings and went to the check out line. After purchasing other items, Russo tried to leave, but a manager confronted him about the hidden DVD package.
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The man accused of attacking and terrorizing women in their own driveways has surrendered to police. 20-year-old Anthony Lilliard turned himself into police Friday. Fourth District investigators say all of the attacks happened off Lee Road near the Cleveland/Shaker border. They believe Lilliard is to blame for all of the crimes.
PARMA, Ohio - Parma police are looking for a man they said robbed medication from a drug store Thursday morning. The incident happened at approximately 10:55 a.m. at the Walgreens on Rockside Road.
AKRON, Ohio - Following more than a year of legal maneuvering and delays, the public corruption trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and co-defendant Michael Gabor got under way Thursday morning, with prosecutors claiming Dimora sold public contracts and jobs for money and sex. Jurors were sworn in around 8:50 a.m. after clarifications on issues of evidence were discussed by attorneys and U.S. District Court Judge Sara Lioi. Opening statements began around 9 a.m. with Assistant U.S. Attorney Antoinette Bacon telling the jury they will be hearing a case of “bribery, fraud, obstruction and conspiracy.”
WESTLAKE, Ohio - An Avon Lake teen told police a man stole her pantyhose so he could fix his car. It happened at about 7:30 p.m. in the Union Street garage in Crocker Park on Jan. 6. According to Westlake police, the 16-year-old girl was accosted by a man who was demanding her pantyhose.
CLEVELAND – A police chase in Cleveland involving a bank robbery suspect and a child in the car ended in a crash on the city’s west side Friday afternoon. The car police were chasing crashed into a utility police near West 110 th and Lake Avenue at about 1:10 p.m. Police dispatchers said at least […]
ALLIANCE, Ohio – Another person has been arrested following a burglary at an Alliance church earlier this month. Police said 19-year-old Delbert Watson, who was has already been charged with breaking and entering, and receiving stolen property, now faces charges for arson. According to Alliance police, Watson, Mary Watkins, 18, and Zachary Hawkins, 18, broke […]
CLEVELAND – The number of bank robberies in Cuyahoga County rose in 2011, according to the FBI. FBI special agent Scott Wilson said there have been 69 bank robberies in the county so far this year, including two Thursday morning. Wilson said there were 55 bank robberies in Cuyahoga County in 2010. Wilson did not […]
SOLON, Ohio – Two women were arrested after Solon people say they stole more than $2,000 worth of merchandise from an Old Navy store. The theft happened around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Old Navy on Kruse Drive in Solon. According to police, officers responded to the store for a report of four people […]
KENT, OH (WOIO) – Two laptops stolen from a business connected with Kent State University. It happened sometime between October 31st and November 1st at 138 East Main Street Suite 203 in the city of Kent. The business at that location, The Tannery, is an Integrated Marketing Service for Kent State University. Two laptop computers […]
North Olmsted police say a man shop-lifted two vodka bottles, by shoving them down the front of his pants. Thomas Eder Jr was arrested at Marc’s on Great Northern Boulevard on October 25th at 9:30 in the morning. Marc’s employees saw Eder hide the liquor bottles in his pants and walk out the front door […]