NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio

Disorderly conduct: Lorain Road

Police at 5:25 a.m. Feb. 18 responded to a Lorain Road apartment building regarding a complaint about a naked man sleeping in a common hallway area.

Officers entering the building heard loud snoring coming from one of the hallways. They discovered a man who was naked from the waist down with his genitals exposed. His pants and boxer shorts were on the floor nearby.

The man smelled of alcohol, and officers had to shake him by the arm to wake him up. They also called for an ambulance.

The man initially was groggy, but eventually, he became alert and coherent, according to a police report. He said he had returned to his apartment from work about midnight and began drinking vodka. He recalled drinking about half a bottle before lying down for bed at 3 a.m.

He said he had no recollection of leaving his apartment and didn’t know why he was naked from the waist down.

Officers cited the suspect for disorderly conduct by intoxication.

OVI: Interstate 480

Officers responded at 8:34 p.m. Feb. 19 to the I-480 westbound on-ramp from Great Northern Boulevard on a report of a crash.

Officers discovered a car 25 feet off the right side of the ramp, stuck in the grass. The driver had bloody knuckles and a small amount of blood on his pants, but he said he was uninjured. The man said he had lost control of his car while trying to get on the highway.

Police noticed that the man was unsteady on his feet and slurring his words. He told officers he had had one drink -- a Long Island iced tea -- earlier in the night.

Police administered field sobriety tests, then arrested the suspect for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. At the police station, a breath test showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.202. Police added charges of driving with a blood-alcohol content above 0.17 and failure to control.

OVI: Lorain Road

An officer at 12:44 a.m. Feb. 20 saw a pickup truck traveling west on Lorain Road in the middle of the westbound lanes.

The officer followed the truck and noticed that it continued weaving and began making contact with the solid yellow line. The truck also turned south onto Clague Road without signaling.

The officer stopped the truck and confronted the driver with the numerous traffic violations he had observed. The man said he did not have a license, but was working on getting one and asked not to be ticketed. The officer learned that the man’s license had been suspended because of previous alcohol-related driving offenses.

The officer noted that the driver’s eyes were bloodshot and that he smelled of an alcoholic beverage.

A woman in the truck was told to leave the scene after repeatedly interrupting officers.

After giving the driver a field sobriety test, police arrested him for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. During a check of the vehicle, police recovered a small bag of marijuana.

The driver became angry on the way to the police station, and once he was let out of the cruiser, he ran into the arresting officer, causing him to lose his balance and move backward, according to a police report.

Police filed a felony OVI charge because the suspect has three prior OVI convictions, according to the police report.

Petty theft: Great Northern Shopping Center

Police shortly after 2 p.m. Feb. 21 arrested a suspect accused of trying to take tools valued at $388 from Home Depot.

A store loss prevention officer had witnessed the suspect conceal the items down his pants, then leave the store without paying for them. Store employees stopped him outside.

The suspect is charged with petty theft.

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