Roundup: Sept. 4, 2008
The Chronicle-Telegram Staff
Vandals slash 59 tires in Lorain storage lot
LORAIN — One or two sliced tires are bad enough, but someone with an apparent grudge took things to the extreme overnight Tuesday and cut 59 tires in a fenced-off Colorado Avenue storage lot, according to a Lorain police report.
The vandalism was discovered Wednesday morning at DaVinci Collision and affected 20 company-owned vehicles, a company-owned motorcycle and two cars belonging to customers, the report said.
The damage was estimated at $8,850.
The report said there were no immediate suspects and the collision center lot wasn’t under video surveillance.
Woman’s crying child scares off assailant
LORAIN — A woman told police she was robbed at gunpoint early Sunday at her home while her infant son slept in another room, and that the baby’s crying eventually scared off the gunman.
The 34-year-old was crying and shaking when police interviewed her about
4:15 a.m. at her Sunset Drive home, according to a Lorain police report. It said she arrived at the house about 3:20 a.m. with a friend and a man came from behind and put a chrome semiautomatic pistol to the woman’s head.
She told police the suspect was about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighed 140 pounds.
The report said the man followed the woman and her friend into her apartment and threatened to kill her. She pleaded for her life and told him they did not have any money, but the gunman ordered them to strip to prove they had nothing of value in their clothes, police said.
The woman handed the robber her purse to show him it was empty, and that’s when her baby started making noise upstairs, the report said. She told police the gunman got nervous and bolted.
Copper wire thieves vandalize building
ELYRIA — Utility crews and firefighters prevented a possible explosion Tuesday afternoon after finding live electrical wires and smelling gas, according to an Elyria police report.
A thief ripped $20,000 worth of copper wiring from a Keep Court building off Schaden Road and left the wires exposed, the report said. When the vandalism was discovered about 3 p.m., Ohio Edison turned off the electric service while Columbia Gas shut off service.
A ladder found at the scene appeared to be bent over from either someone falling or from a vandal possibly being injured from electrical currents, the report said. The wire was hot when police arrived.
State patrol posts combine dispatch duties
MEDINA TWP. — Troopers from the Ohio Highway Patrol’s Elyria post are now in the hands of Medina dispatchers, after radio room operations were consolidated Monday.
Lt. Joshua Swindell said the merger won’t change the way officers patrol — just who dispatches them.
Five Elyria dispatchers have been moved to the Medina post and join five employees already there. The merger didn’t result in any layoffs.
Swindell said consolidating dispatchers will reduce overtime costs and save the patrol money. He said the Elyria post, located on Cletus Drive in North Ridgeville, will remain open around the clock and a single dispatcher will remain on duty there between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays.
Avon Police Department hosts open house
AVON — An open house will be 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the new Avon Police Department, 36145 Detroit Road.
Tours will be given of the new $5.2 million facility, which opened in May. It is nearly three times larger than the old police station just down the street and features a jail, a “safe room,” a high-tech crime unit, expanded offices for detectives and officers and a 5,000-square-foot garage and armory.
Police will also make identification cards available for children.
Weekend crash kills Rochester man
HUNTINGTON TWP. — A 62-year-old Rochester man was killed in a fatal crash.
Gene Rym died about 7:45 a.m. Sunday after failing to yield at a stop sign along state Route 58 and state Route 162, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.
Rym was traveling eastbound on state Route 162 when his 2005 Ford Focus was struck by a northbound Pontiac Montana driven by 19-year-old Aaron Burger, of Medina.
No charges have been filed and the crash remains under investigation. Alcohol is not suspected to have played a part in the crash.
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