BEACHWOOD, Ohio —
Receiving stolen property: Cedar Road
At 5:40 p.m. May 12, it was reported that two females left the Beachwood Place store Zara, 26300 Cedar Road, with items for which they had not paid.
Two Zara employees later told police that when the two suspects walked out of the store, the employees were notified by an app that inventoried items were leaving the store without payment. The employees then called police.
Officers found the suspects sitting in the mall’s food court and detained them.
In one suspect’s bag were clothing items for babies that totaled $111.50. This woman, 24, of Cleveland, admitted to not paying for the clothing.
The other woman’s bag also contained many clothing items for babies and other merchandise totaling $285.80. The second suspect is a 24-year-old Euclid resident.
Police arrested the women for receiving stolen property.
Theft: Cedar Road
At 6:50 p.m. May 15, police were informed of another theft that took place at Zara. Again, as a suspect walked out of the store with her three children, an app alerted the store manager of inventoried items leaving the store without payment.
The manager was unable to detain the woman as she walked into the mall area.
The woman, however, returned to the store several hours later, with the stolen goods and her children, to retrieve a child’s bag she had mistakenly left at Zara.
This time, as the suspect left the store, an alarm sounded and the manager was able to detain her.
Police were called to the scene. It was found that, for most of the stolen clothing items, the tags had been cut off. The tags were found hidden beneath clothing in a changing room and matched the items stolen.
The suspect is a 30-year-old Kuwaiti resident who only speaks Arabic. She was arrested and, at the police station, a translation service was used to communicate with her.
The stolen items totaled $422.10. Police charged the woman with theft.
Receiving stolen property: Cedar Road
At 3:45 p.m. May 16, police were once more notified by Zara management of a theft, this time committed by two men.
A manager saw one of the men walk into the store carrying a mostly empty Dillard’s shopping bag. When the two left Zara, the bag was mostly full.
Again, the store’s anti-theft app alerted the manager to the theft.
The men were seen entering a sedan and driving the car north to the Dillard’s parking lot. There, the car was parked and the men were detained.
Officers could see the stolen goods inside the locked vehicle. The car’s driver, one of the suspects, told police he could not open the car because a third-party, not present, had the key.
Police, however, told the man the two suspects had been on surveillance video and that it was known that there was no third party in the vehicle.
Although a key was felt in the man’s pocket when he was patted down, he would not cooperate and hand over the key.
It was later learned that the anti-theft app did not record two additional items that were stolen, which brought the total to nine stolen items worth $510.10.
Police charged the men, 29, of Cleveland Heights, and 30, of Richmond Heights, with receiving stolen property and informed them that they haver been banned from returning to the mall.
Disturbance: Richmond Road
At 3:25 p.m. May 17, police were called to Heck’s restaurant, 3355 Richmond Road, where it was reported that a female customer had caused a disturbance.
The woman ordered an omelet and was dissatisfied with it. The restaurant made another omelet for the woman and took 50 percent off her bill.
Still unhappy, the woman refused to pay and started yelling at staff members. When asked to leave, the woman refused and threatened to get her detective brother involved.
After berating the staff more, the woman left, but never paid.
Police were unable to identify the woman. The restaurant wanted the incident documented.
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