Crane Hits Overpass, Broken Windows and a Prank: Brecksville Police Blotter

The following incidents were reported by the from May 7 to 8. The information was compiled from police reports.

Criminal mischief
A Brecksville man reported criminal mischief on May 8. The man’s car had been sprayed with a clear, oily liquid twice within one week. The car was inside the garage for rental properties on Carriage Hill, which means there is limited access to who can get inside. The man who filed the complaint and another resident who was subletting the garage spot to him were asked to monitor their vehicles.

Crane hits overpass, wires
Police received a call at 7:18 p.m. on May 7 that a truck on Interstate 77 may have lost part of the load it was carrying. When police got there, they saw a flatbed truck with a crane in the back. The crane had punched through part of the bed and was dragging on the ground. The truck had left a trail of truck parts, crane parts and wood from the Miller Road overpass to where it sat. Two other cars were pulled off to the side of the road, and one was leaking radiator fluid.

The crane in the truck’s bed had hit the overpass, causing the damage. The car that was leaking radiator fluid had been hit by a piece of debris. The driver, a 69-year-old Chesterland man, said he had been coming back from South Akron. The passenger told police that the crane had also gotten caught in electrical wires in Edinburgh Township, Alliance and Ravenna. They even stopped at one point to remove wires from the crane. The passenger said that he had told his boss that the crane was too high, but his worry was dismissed. The driver received a citation for willful disregard for safety and maximum load width, height and length, and a property damage report was filed. The passenger later called police to say he had checked himself into the ER for injuries.

Two broken windows
A teacher at called the police on May 7 to report a broken window. The window was near a soccer goal, and police found another broken window near the opposite goal in a garage nearby. A neighbor said a young man had stopped by his house the Saturday before, offering to pay for the garage window, but the resident told the young man that it wasn’t his garage. He did not get a name.

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