BEREA, Ohio –
Trespassing, improper handling of a firearm: Thacker Street
An armed Elyria man, 41, was arrested early Dec. 28 after police found him walking around a closed business on Thacker.
At about 1 a.m., police on patrol noticed two men – later identified as the Elyria man and a 43-year-old Fairview Park man – step out of a Ford Escape on Thacker. They walked toward the business at 796 Thacker.
Police stopped the Fairview Park man, questioned him and let him go. Meanwhile, the Elyria man disappeared. Police believed he was behind the business so they watched and waited.
After about 10 minutes, police found the Fairview Park man behind the gate of a fence. They ordered him to surrender but he refused.
The man smelled like alcohol. His speech was slurred and he was unsteady on his feet.
Police finally grabbed the man’s hands and, although he resisted them, they placed him in handcuffs.
Police found a 9 mm pistol inside the man’s waistband.
Arrest warrant served, driving with a suspended license: Ohio 237
A wanted Rogers woman, 36, was arrested at about midnight Dec. 25 on 237 northbound north of Sheldon Road.
Police pulled over the woman’s Honda CR-V after checking the license plate and learning that she was wanted by the Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman admitted to police that her driver’s license had been suspended and that she had no car insurance.
Police found a burned glass pipe and two bottles of pills in the CR-V. When asked if she was hiding anything in her bra, the woman said she didn’t remember.
Police, from inside the woman’s bra, removed a plastic wrap and a paper bindle containing what the woman later admitted were methamphetamine and fentanyl.
The woman will face drug charges if lab tests confirm that the woman was carrying meth and fentanyl.
Disorderly conduct: Sheldon Road
An intoxicated Columbia Station woman, 22, was cited at about 8:30 p.m. after police found her walking in the middle of Sheldon while wearing only one shoe.
The woman, whose speech was slurred, told police she had bee drinking in a bar. She said she was walking to her boyfriend’s apartment on West Bagley Road.
Police offered the woman a courtesy ride to her boyfriend’s apartment and she accepted. However, the boyfriend wasn’t home, and he refused to return to the apartment to let the woman inside.
Police took the woman to the police station, where a sober friend eventually arrived to take her home.
