Brecksville Police Blotter: Witnesses Call Police to Report Possible Drunken Driver

The following incidents were reported by the on Oct 9. The information was compiled by police reports.

Witnesses alert police to a dangerous driver
A Broadview Heights couple called police after a woman that they thought was intoxicated got into a car with two children at a playground in Brecksville and drove away. Police pulled the woman over on Brecksville Road shortly before 7 p.m. on Oct. 9, after seeing the car weave in the right lane. The driver, a 46-year-old Seven Hills woman, told the officer that she hadn’t had anything to drink. She failed multiple field sobriety tests, citing anxiety and personal problems. The driver's sister picked up the woman's children from the scene.

She refused to give a breath sample at the scene or later at the station. She told the officer after refusing the first test that she had had one drink that day, but she was on medication, which was the problem. A search of her car turned up three empty wine bottles and one bottle of diet Pepsi that smelled like alcohol. The witnesses who called the police said the woman appeared to have trouble keeping her balance at the playground, and that one of the witnesses noticed the smell of alcohol in the nearby restroom. The woman was charged with driving under the influence, with child endangerment, weaving course, open container and not wearing a seatbelt.

Resident reports broken garage window
A Brecksville resident called police on Oct. 9 to report damage to a window on her garage on Brecksville Road. The resident said she had heard a loud noise, like a shotgun, around 3:30 a.m. Around 4 a.m., she heard something hit the house. An upper-story window on the home’s attached garage was shattered, and there was a small impact mark in the center. An officer found a golf ball nearby, which the home’s owners said did not belong to them. The golf ball was taken as evidence.

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