Lodi - A woman advised the police department at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday that she suspected her daughter was going to buy drugs. Officers located the 16-year-old girl, who was smoking a cigarette in the 100 block of River Street. Her mom gave the officers permission to search her purse and they found a marijuana pipe inside it. Drug paraphernalia and underage tobacco use charges are pending.
- Copper piping was stolen from two apartment buildings on the 600 block of Highland Drive between 1 and 5 a.m. Wednesday. Copper pipes and fittings were stolen from one building. Copper piping and six water meters belonging to the village were taken from the other.
- Lisa George, 43, of 110½ Bank St., was taken to Lodi Community Hospital, 225 Elyria St., for a health emergency at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday. She became violent and hit a hospital employee. She was charged with assault and disorderly conduct.
- Copper wiring was stolen from a vacant warehouse in the 600 block of Wooster Street sometime between April 1 and Monday.
- A resident of the 100 block of Hemlock Court reported 144 pieces of property were stolen from her sometime between April 2 and 9. Included in the property were numerous pieces of jewelry, DVDs and video games.
Brunswick Hills Township - Two men were cited for criminal trespassing for riding moto-cross-style motorcycles in the 1000 block of Marks Road on property under construction reportedly belonging to Ryan Homes around 7:30 p.m. April 9. Joseph Maleski, 26, 1029 Marks Road, Brunswick Hills Township, who reportedly lives next door to the property, and Anthony Destro, 26, 4566 Baywood Drive, Brunswick, were spotted riding the motorcycles by a resident of nearby Bringham Drive. The men told police they did not have permission to ride on the property, were issued citations and released.
- A Lakewood man was issued several citations after driving his pickup truck into a ditch near the intersection of Substation Road and state Route 303 around 3:45 a.m. April 2. Alfred Kola, 38, was found standing outside his pickup truck and was unsteady on his feet. Kola performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was taken to the township police station, where his blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.257 percent. The legal limit in Ohio is 0.08 percent. Kola then told police his arm was numb and that he had heart trouble. A rescue squad transported him to Southwest General Health Center in Middleburg Heights for treatment. At the hospital, an officer cited Kola for failure to maintain reasonable control, driving under the influence of alcohol and having a BAC over 0.17 percent.
Hinckley Township - An employee of a business in the 1600 block of West 130th Street reported being attacked by two men around 1:30 p.m. April 11. The employee said the two men were looking for the owner of the business next door. When the men asked the employee where the other business’s owner was, the man reportedly responded, “I don’t know anything about him, where he is, or why he is not there. It’s not my day to watch him.” An argument that turned physical reportedly ensued, and the two men fled in an unknown direction, the reporting employee, who had a cut on his hand from the incident, told police.
Montville Township - A storage trailer on a construction site at 3626 Medina Road was broken into sometime between 4 p.m. March 24 and 7:45 a.m. March 25 and $1,570 in copper wire was stolen.
- A CD player and iPod, worth $120, were taken from a vehicle with a faulty lock in the 3000 block of East Normandy Park Drive between 5:30 p.m. March 28 and 4 p.m. March 30.
- A car stereo, 200 watt amplifier, subwoofers and a subwoofer housing unit, valued at $460, were stolen from an unlocked vehicle in the 3000 block of East Normandy Park Drive between midnight March 29 and midnight March 30.
Compiled from police reports.

















