At 10:15 a.m. May 24, police were called to Citizens Bank, 3401 Richmond Road, on a report of a woman trying to pass a bad check. Police arrived as the suspect was leaving and detained her.
On her person, police found an ID with a photo that matched the woman, but the woman denied that it was her ID. She gave officers a false name and date of birth.
It was learned that the woman had tried to cash at the bank a check for $8,600 made out to the phony name the suspect gave police. A Citizens Bank account had been opened under the false name 10 days earlier in New York City.
Suspicious, the bank teller called police. Police contacted the 78-year-old Sagamore Hills woman who supposedly wrote the check, but this woman said she never wrote such a check and did not know of the phony name.
The suspect, 33, of New York was arrested and taken to the Beachwood jail, where she refused to give police information.
While at the jail, the suspect asked an officer what charge she might face. When told, "Passing bad checks," the woman admitted guilt by replying, "Checks? I only passed one bad check."
She claimed she only went into the bank because an unnamed person told her to do so. She said that the unnamed person would have hurt her if she had refused.
Police charged her with forgery, a third-degree felony.
Criminal damaging: Park East Drive
At 10:45 a.m. May 23, a Cleveland woman, 18, went to the Beachwood police station to report that her 2010 Volkswagen was intentionally damaged while parked outside The Aster apartments, 3600 Park East Drive in Beachwood.
The woman said that, just after midnight May 23, she parked her car in The Aster lot and, as she walked toward the building, she saw her ex-boyfriend, of Cleveland Heights, enter the building. She said she is positive her boyfriend looked back and saw her.
Later that morning, when she went to her car, she found its rear window smashed.
Police spoke with apartment security and obtained video of the woman's car. Video showed the ex-boyfriend and his brother, 20, pull up in a Porsche vehicle and park behind the woman's car.
Next, the former boyfriend was seen getting out of the Porsche and throwing an object at the rear window of the woman's car, shattering it. He then used his fist to pound at least nine times on the window.
Police contacted the man by phone and told him they were calling about the smashed window and that he needed to turn himself in at the police station.
The man agreed to turn himself in on May 25, but failed to do so. Police again called him, but heard a message that the man was not taking calls.
A warrant was issued for the man's arrest on charges of criminal damaging and driving with a suspended license.
Criminal trespassing: Cedar Road
At 6:30 p.m. May 24, a woman notified police that she saw a man pulling on the door handles of parked cars in the lot of Beachwood Place mall, 26300 Cedar Road.
When police arrived, mall security and off-duty police officers were already speaking with the suspect.
Security video captured the man looking into parked cars and pulling on door handles.
The suspect, 26, of Cleveland, had been previously issued trespass warnings by mall security in October, 2023, and March, 2025. On those dates, he had also been seen pulling on car door handles. Neither of the trespass warnings had expired.
Police arrested the man for criminal trespassing.
Theft: Chagrin Boulevard
At 12:15 p.m. May 26, police were called to Giant Eagle, 24601 Chagrin Blvd., where a woman in a motorized wheelchair was caught shoplifting.
An employee stopped the woman outside of the store. In her possession, among other items, were two cases of Mexican beer.
When confronted, the woman said she paid for the items, but she could not produce a receipt. She then asked the employee to leave her alone and attempted to leave.
The stolen items, totaling $78.96, were recovered. Police found the suspect at a Chagrin Boulevard bus stop. She said she is unable to walk.
The suspect had been previously trespassed from the store due to a theft on May 5.
Police charged her with theft and criminal trespassing. The woman, 60, of Parma Heights, was also advised that she is wanted on a Middleburg Heights police warrant.