Cleveland Crime

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Recent Crime News

• Cleveland: Woman who fell on baby in court

  11 min ago | via WKYC-TV Cleveland 

  Fatima Pendleton, 32, was charged with falling over onto her babysitter's 3-month-old child while alegedly drunk over the weekend.

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• 4 CLE rec. centers to stay open later

  4 hrs ago | via NewsNet5.com 

  When the school year wraps up, youth in the city of Cleveland will have another fun option at their disposal this summer.

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• Sitting on infant suspect enters plea

  5 hrs ago | via NewsNet5.com 

  The Cleveland woman charged with sitting on her baby sitter's 3-month-old child while drunk over the weekend entered a not guilty plea.

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• Part 6

  8 hrs ago | via NewsNet5.com 

  I raised the gun. A large man with a knife approached me from the other end of the hallway, yelling.

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  Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Defense Law, Law

• $200,000 grant will help 4 Cleveland rec centers sta...

  9 hrs ago | via Cleveland.com 

  Four Cleveland recreation centers will be open four evenings a week throughout the summer thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Cleveland Foundation.

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  Related Topix: Cleveland, OH, Kids, Family

• Cleveland police respond to homicide on Brinsmade Av...

  16 hrs ago | via Cleveland.com 

  Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in the 8200 block of Brinsmade Avenue, which is between Denison and Clark avenues on the city's West Side.

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• Fire crews battle multiple alarm fire in Vernon Town...

  17 hrs ago | via WFMJ-TV Youngstown 

  An attorney for a baby sitter of a 1-year-old boy found dead in a Cincinnati apartment says his client gave the toddler ibuprofen and put him to bed after he fell down some steps.

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  Related Topix: Fire, Weather, Ohio, Boat Disaster, Cleveland, OH

• Victim Shot, Killed During Dispute, Police Say

  17 hrs ago | via WCMH-TV 

  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man is shot and killed in a north Columbus intersection Monday night.

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• Cleveland settles suit with former prison guard for ...

  Sunday | via The Plain Dealer 

  Cleveland has agreed to pay a former state prison guard $900,000 in a settlement over a 2009 confrontation with vice cops in which the officers came close to shooting one another outside a prison.

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  Related Topix: Cleveland, OH, State Prisons, Prison, Northeast Pre-Release Center

• Woman Shot, Forced Out of SUV in Cleveland

  Sunday | via Fox 8 

  Cleveland police are searching for the person who shot a woman on the city's east side early Sunday morning.

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• Cleveland bikers come out in force to show their sup...

  Sunday | via WMMS-FM Independence 

  Motorcyclists departed from Cleveland Browns Stadium at 11am on the police escorted 40-mile trek passing by ten firehouses: Cleveland Station #4; Cleveland Station #23; Cleveland Station #39; and stations in North Olmsted, Rocky River, Fairview Park, Westlake, Bay Village, Avon Lake, and Avon FD, before ending at Lake Erie Harley Davidson.

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  Related Topix: Sports, Cleveland Browns, NFL Football

• Sentencings and trials in Cuyahoga County: Court Watch

  Sunday | via Cleveland.com 

  Chailee Brown, 19, of Cleveland: Sentencing Tuesday by Judge John Sutula for robbery.

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• Police: woman shot, pushed out of car

  Sunday | via NewsNet5.com 

  On scene, they found that 37-year-old Johanna Buenaventura of Cleveland was shot in the chest and stomach.

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• Patrons carrying guns in Ohio bars: Whatever happene...

  Sunday | via Cleveland.com 

  "Whatever happened to . . .?" is a weekly series updating some of the most newsworthy and interesting local stories covered in The Plain Dealer.

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  Related Topix: Ohio, Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Governors, John Kasich, Cleveland, OH

• Friends, family honor slain Kannapolis student

  Sunday | via Independent Tribune 

  Friends and family of Daniel Cooper release balloons at A.L. Brown High School on Saturday night to honor the student who was shot to death May 21.

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  Related Topix: Kannapolis, NC

• A man named Spider tries to make one slice of Clevel...

  Sunday | via The Plain Dealer 

  There's little that "Spider" doesn't know about the small stretch of Cleveland's Detroit Avenue between West 110th and West 112th Street.

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• Ohio's second casino opening in Toledo on Tuesday

  Sunday | via FOX19 Cincinnati 

  Fire units were called to Hebron for a possible drowning involving a child on Monday afternoon.

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  Related Topix: Memorial Day, Life, Holidays

• Drunk Ohio woman falls on infant's head

  Friday May 25 | via KSLA-TV Shreveport 

  A large brush fire that started about 5:00 Sunday afternoon has burned about 60 acres of land and a large, old barn on some property near Highway 82 and N Rondo Rd.

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• Cleveland woman shot on E.72nd

  Dec 13, 2011 | via WOIO 

  The Kent Police Department is investigating the death of a male struck by a train on the CSX Railroad tracks early Sunday morning.

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  Related Topix: Cleveland, OH, Train Disaster, Fire

• Akron firefighters battle double arson

  Dec 13, 2011 | via WOIO 

  According to Akron Fire reports, the arsons were set to 1103 and 1107 Laird Street around 7:30 p.m. Cleveland police are investigating a shooting on East 72nd Street and St. 1 comment

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