Police Respond to Fights in Stow, Street Sign Damaged

The was called to responded to a few separate fights in Stow recently.

• On May 13 a senior reported to Stow Police that another female student pulled her hair, pushed her and then punched her in the face on school grounds. Disorderly conduct, in this situation, is a fourth-degree misdemeanor. 
• Two Stow-Munroe Falls High School teens traded insults on Facebook and arranged to fight May 25 on the practice football field, according to the report. The two youths fought and one student was taken to the emergency room for an eye injury. No other serious injuries were reported. Assault is a first-degree misdemeanor and disorderly conduct is a fourth-degree misdemeanor in this situation.
• A Stow teen reported to police that he and another student got into a fight in a yard at the 3000 block of Graham Road May 31. Stow Police warned the teens for disorderly conduct, which is a minor-misdemeanor in this situation.
• Stow Police responded to a fight at the 2400 block of Echo Valley Drive May 28, but when officers arrived the two women had already been separated. One woman, a 43-year-old, was arrested because after police warned her of her disorderly conduct, her behavior continued, according to police. The woman was charged with disorderly conduct, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.

In other police news:

• One Stow male teen and two female teens were all charged with criminal damaging, a second-degree misdemeanor, for taking a street sign out of the ground and bending the pole May 28.  The street sign damaged was at the corner of Liberty Road and Burton Drive. The police department responded to the complaint and found the two female suspects hiding in a nearby shed. The case has been referred to Stow Youth Services.