Monday, April 8, 2013
The information in this report is from the Twinsburg Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A 37-year-old Cleveland man was charged with drunken driving and child endangerment after the Twinsburg Police say he was driving drunk with three children in the car. On April 1 at about 12:54 a.m., a Twinsburg police officer saw a a GMC Yukon pull over onto the shoulder while driving East on I-480. The officer came to assist and the driver told the cop that he had pulled over to fix the volume on the movie playing for the kids in the backseat. The kids were aged 5, 12, and 13. A check of the driver showed that the man was driving with a suspended license. The officer also smelled alcohol on the driver's breath. He was arrested and charged with drunken driving and child endangerment. The other adult passenger, a 34-year-old woman, was …
Friday, February 22, 2013
The information in this report is from the Twinsburg Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A 60-year-old Twinsburg man was arrested after he pushed a Twinsburg Police officer who was trying to stop him from driving drunk from a gas station. Just after midnight on Feb. 17, the man pulled into GetGo on Hadden Road and attemped to buy a 12-pack of beer. A Twinsburg police officer was working security at the gas station and informed the man, who was visibly drunk, that he could not buy beer and could not drive away, according to the police report. The man tried to get in his car and pushed the police officer and then closed the door on her arm while she was attempting to stop him from driving away. Another police officer arrived and helped place the man under arrest. He was first treated for injuries he sustained falling on the ice …
Monday, January 28, 2013
The information in this report is from the Twinsburg Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A 53-year-old Twinsburg man was charged with a "super" drunken driving charge after he was pulled over for speeding, according to Twinsburg Police. On Jan. 18, at about 11:50 p.m. a Twinsburg Police officer pulled over a car travelling 55 miles per hour on Ravenna Road, which is a 35-mile-per-hour zone. While talking to the driver, the police officer smelled alcohol. The driver admitted to drinking, according to the report, and performed poorly on sobriety tests. He was arrested and taken to the Twinsburg jail, where he performed a breath test and registered a .208, more than double the legal limit of .08 and enough to bump up the charge to a so-called "super OVI." The man was released on bond and given a court date.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
The information in this report is from the Solon Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A Twinsburg woman was arrested and charged with drunken driving after she crashed her car into a traffic pole in Solon, according to Solon Police. A 47-year-old Twinsburg woman was charged on Dec. 22 with drunken driving and failure to control after her car struck a traffic pole at the intersection of Solon and Aurora roads in Solon, according to a police report. The woman said she had just left a work holiday part at Freeway Lanes in Solon, and she was stumbling around and slurring her speech after the crash, according to the report. She registered a .162 on the breathalyzer test, above the legal limit of .08, according to police.
Monday, December 24, 2012
If you insist on driving after a few drinks, here's what you should know about how alcohol affects your system and your criminal record.
Do you know how many drinks you can have before you're in danger of getting a drunken driving violation? This year in Twinsburg, there have been a number of drunken driving arrests. As we head into the holiday season, Patch wants you to know when enough is enough. When police pull drivers over for suspected drunken driving, officers ask them to perform field sobriety tests and to take a breath test to measure Blood Alcohol Content. A BAC test measures the percentage of alcohol present in a person's bloodstream. Ohio's legal limit is 0.08. According to the Virginia Tech Alcohol Abuse Prevention website, every 40 minutes, 0.01 percent of alcohol leaves your system. Check out the chart in the media portion of this article to see what your …
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Here are some of the weirdest police reports and incidents from departments across the region.
Here are this week's most bizarre police calls, reports and charges. All information was provided by police reports from departments in Patch communities. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction. A bad place for a nap: Solon Police found a sleeping Bedford woman behind the wheel early in the morning of Dec. 16. Tamara Boykin, 37, was sleeping with her foot on the brake on Aurora Road. Police put the car in park before waking the woman. She failed a sobriety test and got a .176 on a breath test, and police found marijuana in her possession. She was charged with drunken driving, drug abuse, possession of drug paraphernalia and stopping or slow speed. Picking a fight with a police officer: Twinsburg police …
Friday, December 14, 2012
The information in this report is from the Twinsburg Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A 30-year-old Aurora woman is charged with drunken driving after she blew out all four tires on her car after driving on the wrong side of the road, then parked it on the road near a gas station and hid in the woods, according to Twinsburg Police. Danielle Dorsey, 30, of Aurora, is charged with drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident and failure to control, according to a police report. At about 1:44 a.m. on Dec. 10, a Twinsburg police officer found a car partially on Darrow Road near the BP Station near I-480. The car had four flat tires, and was empty inside. While the officer was searcing the car, a woman arrived at the gas station, who said she was the car owner's mother, and that she had come to pick up her daughter. The …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
The information in this report is from the Twinsburg Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A determined woman helped Twinsburg Police remove a drunken driver from city streets. On Dec. 7 at about 9:42 p.m., the woman called police to say that she was driving on Darrow Road behind someone driving erratically. She told police she had seen the car drive over several curbs before turning onto Darrow Park Drive. Officers arrived on the scene and the woman directed the police to the man's car, according to the police report. Officers found the driver, who was arrested for drunken driving. He registered a blood-alcohol level of .207, over the legal limit of .08, according to the report.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
If you insist on driving after a few drinks, here's what you should know about how alcohol affects your system and your criminal record.
Do you know how many drinks you can have before you're in danger of getting a drunken driving violation? This year in Twinsburg, there have been a number of drunken driving arrests. As we head into the holiday season, Patch wants you to know when enough is enough. When police pull drivers over for suspected drunken driving, officers ask them to perform field sobriety tests and to take a breath test to measure Blood Alcohol Content. A BAC test measures the percentage of alcohol present in a person's bloodstream. Ohio's legal limit is 0.08. According to the Virginia Tech Alcohol Abuse Prevention website, every 40 minutes, 0.01 percent of alcohol leaves your system. The limit for people under 21 is 0.02, said township Chief Michael McNeely…
Thursday, December 6, 2012
The information in this report is from the Twinsburg Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
When a Twinsburg Police officer approached a car he had pulled over along Cannon Road on Dec. 1, he found the driving on the phone. The 42-year-old man, who smelled heavily of alcohol, was on the phone with his wife and telling her he was going to be in jail, according to the police report. The officer let the man finish his conversation and then had him perform a field sobriety test, which performed poorly on, the report reads. The man provided a breath sample at the Twinsburg jail, registering a .164, more than double the legal limit of .08. The man is charged with drunken driving and driving left of center. He will have his first court date in Stow Municipal Court today.
Carl S
4:18 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
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