November 19
12:43 am A 33-year-old Columbus woman allegedly called 9-1-1 from a vehicle traveling west on Interstate 70. The dispatcher could hear her say, “put it down, put it down!” and “you’re putting other people in danger.” Police tracked the cell phone signal to a red SUV weaving between lanes near the Hill Road exit.
The officer activated the cruiser’s lights and sirens and the SUV stopped in the center median just inside the outerbelt. Using the cruiser’s loudspeaker, the officer asked the driver to exit his vehicle.
The man, a 48-year-old Powell resident, complied. He told the officer that he was only pulled over because his girlfriend was drunk and called 9-1-1. He said that she was angry with him for passing vehicles on the back roads out of Lancaster.
The officer smelled alcohol on the driver, but the man refused to submit to a field sobriety test nor a breath test.
November 20
4:16 pm A 51-year-old Westerville woman allegedly attempted to cash a check for $2,840.25 at Kemba Credit Union using a modified identification. She told the police that she had found the check and identification in a bathroom, but later she changed her story to say that she had obtained them from the “dark web”.
5:55 pm Kohl’s loss prevention specialist called the police to report that a known shoplifter was in the store with three little girls and a baby in a stroller. When the police notified the 34-year-old Columbus woman that she was wanted on a warrant out of Reynoldsburg, she tried to flee. Officers secured the stroller and handcuffed the woman. Reynoldsburg Police could not extradite the suspect at the time; therefore, she was released.
November 23
9:48 am A purse was allegedly stolen from an unlocked minivan in the Wellington Park neighborhood.
November 24
12:02 pm A 28-year-old Pickerington woman allegedly tried to call off from her shift at Little Caesar’s which she did often. In the restaurant’s group chat, the assistant manager responded that the woman was “being lazy” and that she needed to stop calling off. She texted back, calling him a “b___h.” To which he responded, “your mom is a b___h.”
She then arrived at the restaurant with a pair of flower-printed scissors to cut the manager’s “b___s off” for talking about her mom. She threw the scissors at him as he ran toward the back of the store. She then hurled a bottle of orange-flavored pop which burst onto the floor causing him to slip. The woman began stalking toward the manager telling him to come closer so “I can cut your b___s off.” The police arrived and told her to drop the scissors which she did.
2:18 pm A Door Dasher allegedly stole a package from a home in the Overland Park Apartments.
10:26 pm An officer witnessed a vehicle traveling at an estimated 100 mph southbound on Hill Road in a 45-mph zone near Stonecreek North. When the officer began to follow, the vehicle pulled into the Edward Warren Jewelers lot, turned off its lights then returned to Hill Road.
The officer activated his cruiser’s overhead lights, but the suspect only stopped for a moment before it began traveling northbound in the southbound lane. The driver came to a stop in the parking lot of Petite Academy off Stonecreek North.
The driver, an Etna boy who turned 16 that day, was driving on a temporary permit with four juvenile passengers – none of them possessing a valid driver’s license. The vehicle belonged to the mother of a friend. The friend was not with the group.
November 25
10: 25 am A 25-year-old Gahanna man was pulled over for allegedly driving 43 mph in the 25-mph section of Long Road. His license had expired, and he had fictitious plates.
1:43 pm A 51-year-old man with no license was pulled over after an officer witnessed him make an illegal left turn into the Turnberry Shoppes from northbound Hill Road. The driver told the officer that he did so because he had really had to use a restroom.
7:40 pm Police arrested a 29-year-old Pickerington man on a warrant out of Whitehall.
10:44 pm A Nintendo Switch and a phone battery were allegedly stolen from a vehicle parked in the Meadows neighborhood.
4:44 pm Kohl’s loss prevention specialist called the police to report that a known shoplifter was in the store placing items in a cart. The police arrested the 36-year-old Whitehall woman on a warrant out of Reynoldsburg for theft.
5:28 pm Someone attempted to break the window of a vehicle parked at Hampton Inn.
