WESTLAKE, Ohio
Weapons: I-90
Officers at 9 p.m. on June 23 stopped a car on I-90 E/B eastbound at Columbia for license and equipment violations.
The driver said that he did not have a valid driver’s license and that there was a firearm under the seat. Officers recovered the loaded gun, suspected marijuana, a scale and empty small plastic bags from the car. The driver, a 27-year-old Cleveland man, was under indictment for a felony drug possession charge and improper handling of a gun, which disqualified him from legal gun possession.
He was arrested on an additional charge of improper handling of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and having a weapon while under a disability. He was booked into the Westlake jail under the felony charges.
Weapons: I-90
An officer at 1:30 p.m. on June 23 stopped an eastbound car on I-90 near Columbia Road for moving violations and discovered the 34-year-old driver from Cleveland did not have a valid license.
The officer also discovered the man had 14 open driving suspensions. A second man in the car, who was sitting with a small child in the back seat, also did not have a license. The officer discovered a loaded handgun inside the vehicle.
The driver was charged with improper handling of a gun, carrying a concealed weapon, following too close, and driving under suspension.
During the traffic stop, the registered owner of the car arrived on scene in a second vehicle. The 34-year-old Lorain woman was cited with wrongful entrustment for allowing a man with no license to driver her car.
OVI: I:90
A driver called the Westlake Police Department at 10:45 p.m. on June 23 to report that a woman driving a gray Ford Focus nearly ran him off the road and came close to striking two motorcycles on I-90.
Officers stopped the Focus on the highway in Rocky River. The Ford had no rear illumination and the car bounced off the guardrail before coming to a stop, according to a police statement. The 32-year-old Fairview Park woman driver said she drank one beer that evening. The driver appeared intoxicated and was field tested. She was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Her blood-alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit, according to a breath test administered by the police. Her vehicle was impounded.
In addition to OVI, she was charged with prohibited breath alcohol content and moving violations. Her license was immediately suspended. She was later released to a sober friend.
Child endangering: Sperry Drive
Police officers and fire department paramedics responded at 5:45 p.m. on June 25 to a report of a woman lying unconscious in the grass on Sperry Drive.
The unconscious woman still had a newborn infant attached to her via the baby’s umbilical cord. The baby was crying while lying face down in the grass. A good Samaritan, who spotted the woman while walking her dog, tried to wake the new mother several times before she revived. The witness notified staff at the nearby Westspring Inn to call 911 while she cut the umbilical cord and attempted to care for the baby.
The mom, a 42-year-old Cleveland resident, was staying at the hotel with a 35-year-old man originally from Westlake. The man, who identified himself as the father of the newborn, was in the nearby hotel room. He said that he was a drug user and explained that the baby came very suddenly and was born in the hotel room. He was cleaning up the room and could not explain why the mom walked out into the nearby lawn with the newborn.
The dad was wanted on a felony parole violation warrant from the Ohio Parole Authority as well as Westlake Police Department warrants for past drug possession and traffic charges, according to a police statement. He was arrested and taken to the Westlake jail. The mom and baby were taken to a hospital. Both the mom and self-proclaimed dad were charged with child endangering. Child and Family Services was contacted and responded to the hospital.
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