Painesville Crime

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Recent Crime News

• iPod, Bike Thefts Reported to Police: The Blotter

  22 hrs ago | via Patch.com 

  On May 23 a Darrow Park Drive man said someone stole his bike from his garage. The man said it happened sometime in the past few days and that it was locked up in a closed garage.

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  Related Topix: Twinsburg, OH, Painesville, OH

• Man kicks deputy, backup crashes cruiser

  Tuesday May 29 | via NewsNet5.com 

  A Lake County Sheriff's deputy struggled to subdue a man who allegedly kicked him, and the backup sent to help the deputy got into a car crash on the way to the scene, and was never able to assist.

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  Related Topix: Lake County, OH, Painesville, OH

• Woman Hospitalized After Rear-End Crash In Mentor

  Tuesday May 22 | via Patch.com 

  A woman was flown to a Cleveland hospital after a 2-car crash Monday evening in Mentor.

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  Related Topix: Mentor, OH, Painesville, OH, Chardon, OH

• Murder in Mentor on Christmas Eve 1959: Whatever hap...

  Monday May 21 | via Cleveland.com 

  On June 8, 1960, a jury found Floyd Hargrove innocent of the slaying of Charles Clark, a verdict that left Hargrove smiling but shaken, Clark's parents from Rochester, N.Y. bitter, and the Lake County prosecutor shocked and amazed.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Mentor, OH, Lake County, OH, Painesville, OH, Chardon, OH

• Man Facing Abduction, Assault Charges After Fight Wi...

  Friday May 11 | via Patch.com 

  A man faces criminal charges after a fight about if he could use his girlfriend's car turned violent, Mentor Police Lt.

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  Related Topix: Painesville, OH, Willoughby, OH

• Woman on crutches who escaped police is recaptured

  Tuesday May 8 | via The Plain Dealer 

  Mentor police arrested a Painesville woman Monday who had escaped police custody by hobbling away on crutches while being examined at a hospital.

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  Related Topix: Mentor, OH, Painesville, OH, Willoughby, OH

• Mentor Police Find, Arrest Escaped Suspect

  Monday May 7 | via Patch.com 

  Mentor Police arrested a suspect who had previously escaped their custody while at LakeWest Medical Center .

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• Woman who escaped on crutches nabbed

  Monday May 7 | via NewsNet5.com 

  Lt. Tom Powers with the Mentor Police Department said 24-year-old Olivia Weber of Painesville was arrested Monday morning after officers received a tip she was at a doctor's office in Concord Township.

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  Related Topix: Painesville, OH, Willoughby, OH