At 6:15 p.m. Oct. 14, a Solon man, 58, reported that he had been contacted by the FBI field office in Iowa -- which police found to be legitimate -- telling him that he may have been unwittingly involved in a scam.The man said he had met a cryptocurrency financial adviser on LinkedIn, who eventually persuaded him to transfer $519,000 to what turned out to be a fake investment website.The FBI was unable to develop a suspect and could not bring a charge. The case was closed.
The women did scan and pay for some items. When confronted, they walked away from a loss prevention officer.At 8:30 a.m. Oct. 17, management at Komatsu Mining Corp., 6160 Cochran Road, reported that an employee who had been terminated earlier in the month had returned twice, walked around the property and spoke with employees.An officer spoke with the ex-employee on the phone and told him not to return to the property.
At 3:30 p.m. Oct. 17, police were called to the Waste Management property, 6661 Cochran Road, where two men were involved in a confrontation.The Toyota driver, a Parma man, 33, told police that as the two vehicles were traveling on Interstate 480, debris from the dump truck damaged his SUV’s windshield.
A woman, 68, had received a phone call from an unknown number telling her she had won money or a car. The driver, for unknown reasons, then turned off the vehicle’s headlights for about 30 seconds as he drove on.