Man charged with picking pockets of injured cyclist
Anthony L. Brown, 37, of Briggs Road was arrested Sunday night and charged with pick-pocketing. Officers were summoned to North High Street and Oakland Avenue on reports of a car accident with injuries and discovered that a 24-year-old man on a bicycle had struck a vehicle. Witnesses told police that they saw Brown pick the pockets of the injured man. Brown was arrested and later charged with misdemeanor theft and resisting arrest.
Clerk accused of giving customer 99 free items
The owner of a North High Street Dollar Tree is accusing one of his employees of embezzlement. The owner says he saw one of his cashiers ring out a customer who had approximately 100 items, but the cashier only charged him for one of the items. After paying only $1.07, the customer left the store, resulting in approximately $100 in losses for the store.
Man makes threats after being booted from store
A man became aggressive after an employee at the North High Street CVS kicked him out of the store Tuesday morning. The 23-year-old employee said she told the man to leave because he has a history of thefts at the store. When she told the man he had to leave, he lunged at her and raised his fist as if he was going to hit her, then said, "B----, if I ever see you on the street!" according to the police report. Police filed a report for menacing but the man was not arrested.
Burglar mistaken for house pet
At 5:50 a.m. Monday, a 26-year-old man woke up when he heard a crash on the first floor of his Arcadia Avenue home. He looked outside and didn't see anything, so he figured it was his cat knocking something over and went back to bed. When he woke again at 7:50 a.m., he discovered that someone had cut open a screen to a downstairs window, knocked out a box fan that was holding the window open, and stole his computer, Xbox 360 and a DVD. Police were unable to retrieve fingerprints from the box fan.
Argument leads to alleged steak-knife threat
Two men, ages 55 and 62, told police they were drinking Wednesday afternoon at a friend's apartment on North Fourth Street when they all got into an argument. The resident of the apartment told the two men to leave, but they went to the porch and continued to drink. Soon after, the resident came out and continued arguing with them, and then allegedly pulled a steak knife out of his back pocket and threatened to kill them. When the two men called the police, the man went back inside. Police soon arrived and knocked on the apartment door, and when the resident answered, they handcuffed him as a safety precaution. When they searched him, they found a steak knife in his back pocket. The two men did not know whether they want to prosecute the alleged knife-wielder, so police referred them to the county prosecutor's office.
Would-be burglar wakes student, flees
A 20-year-old Ohio State student woke up Wednesday morning in his Waldeck Avenue bedroom to the noise of someone opening the door. A man walked into the room, and when the student asked what he was doing, he said he was looking for "the guy downstairs," according to the police report. When the student grabbed his phone and called police, the men fled downstairs and ran eastbound out of the house. Nothing was reported stolen from the home.
Landscaping equipment stolen
An employee for a landscaping company says he was driving a truck loaded with equipment Thursday afternoon when he got a flat tire. When he went to get the tire fixed, someone stole $4,450 worth of equipment from the bed of the truck.
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