Police Reports

On 03/12/2014, at 0132 hrs, a BVPD officer stopped a vehicle on the Clague Rd. overpass for a traffic violation.  After speaking with the 37-yoa male driver, the officer suspected the driver had been drinking.  Field sobriety tests were administered, and as a result, the Lakewood resident was arrested for OVI. He will face charges at RRMC.   OVI On ... Read More »

Bay Police received several calls early in the morning of March 3 from the East Oakland area reporting an adult male pounding on doors claiming there were people in his house and they had shot his parents. The first call came in at 4:18  a.m. Mutual aid was requested from Westlake Police.   Westcom was contacted and asked to have ... Read More »

It has not been a good week for those clinging to faith in human nature.  Westlake Police news for the week shows man’s inhumanity to his brother is everywhere.   Bilked by Facebook Scammer A 24-year-old Westlake woman was Facebook-friended by a supposed US serviceman stationed in the UK. He asked for monetary help in shipping his belongings back. She ... Read More »

An East Oviatt resident came to the Bay Village Police Dept. on Feb. 25  to report she had been the victim of a fraud.  She attempted to file her Federal and State taxes on-line, and had them rejected both times.  When she contacted the IRS, she learned that someone in Louisiana had used her Social Security number and already filed ... Read More »

Westlake Police suspect someone is “spoofing” their main telephone number on Caller ID. ‘Spoofing’ means a caller deliberately falsifies the telephone number and/or name relayed from his phone so that phony information is displayed on the call receiver’s Caller ID system. It is against FCC rules when done with the intent to defraud, cause harm or wrongfully obtain anything of ... Read More »

Bay Police report that during the basketball game at the high school on Fri., Feb. 21 several vehicles were entered, some by windows being broken out, and property was taken. Investigations are ongoing. The Bay Village Police would like to remind residents to not leave valuables in their cars. Some of the items taken, such as laptops, were in plain ... Read More »

Westlake Police have released photos of  a suspect using an Olmsted Township woman’s credit card on Jan. 30, 2014. She dropped the credit card that day at the Speedway gas station on Dover Center Rd. The suspect found the card and bought $150 worth of gift cards with at that very same gas station. What ever happened to the days ... Read More »

A 29-year-old North Olmsted man was stopped for a traffic violation on Feb. 13 at 1:10PM on Detroit Rd. Inside the car, he had marijuana and a loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun. He was arrested for Using Weapons While Intoxicated, POM, and Drug Paraphernalia (hollowed out cigars used to smoke the reefer).   Thefts at Westlake High A male 17-year-old Westlake ... Read More »

  Maybe it was too much Olympic figure skating. A 41-year-old Cleveland man spun out on I-90 in his sister’s car near Crocker Rd. on Feb. 8 around 12:34 a.m.. He was found to have no driver’s license and to have a butterfly knife and club in the PT Cruiser. It was towed and he was cited for No Driver’s ... Read More »

Sewer construction work on Cahoon Road is bringing temper flares in Bay Village. On 02/14/2014, at 0752 hrs, Bay Police  received a call from a construction worker on the Cahoon Rd. sewer project reporting a verbal altercation with a motorist.  The motorist told the worker he would be back.  The motorist called BVPD reporting three construction workers had just threatened ... Read More »