Police responded to the 10900 block of Granger Road around 1:30 a.m. for a report of shots fired. When police arrived, witnesses said a suspect in an armed robbery had just run into a home on the street. Police said the people in the house were uncooperative so SWAT was called to respond. The team […]
The hostage situation at the Trumbull County Jail has come to an end after nearly 5 hours, according to the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office. Officials say negotiators were able to talk the inmates out of the hostage by promising a transfer to a new facility. Three inmates held the corrections officer in one of the cell pods on […]
A man is barricading himself inside his home on Aurora Road in Solon. That’s according to the FBI. A spokesperson for the FBI says Alex Spirikaitis is wanted and has a warrant issued for him. Solon Police went to arrest him Tuesday night but he barricaded himself inside of his home on Aurora Road. The […]
A 5-year-old boy freed Monday after being held captive in an underground bunker for six days is laughing and smiling and playing with his favorite toy dinosaur after being reunited with his family, authorities said. The boy’s kidnapper is dead, but officials offered no details on the raid that freed the boy — identified only […]
Cleveland SWAT forces were called to a building on the city’s west side early Monday morning. Police closed Lorain Avenue from West 117th Street to West 122nd Street at about 1:45 a.m. It is unclear why police gathered in this area, but there were reports of shots fired around a building at West 120th Street […]
Police and SWAT forces used tear gas after repeated warnings and negotiations to end a standoff on Sutton Road in Shaker Heights overnight Wednesday. The standoff began just before 11 p.m. Wednesday. Sutton Road was closed in the area while police negotiated with a suspect inside of an apartment on Sutton Place. The suspect, who was […]
A man surrendered to police around 2:30 a.m. Thursday after barricading himself inside a home at East 65 th Street and Hosmer Avenue in Cleveland for about two hours. Police say a man walked outside the home, fired a gun in the air and then went back inside. It happened around 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Cleveland Police and […]
Cleveland police were involved in a standoff for two hours Thursday morning with a woman who was also holding a 13-year-old girl hostage. Police said that the woman was inside her apartment building at East 103rd Street and Eliot Avenue around 1 a.m. arguing with another woman who was outside in the parking lot. During […]
