Crime & Safety
ABC Streets Hit By Thefts: Work Van and Snowblower Stolen
The information in this report is from the Solon Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
believe the recent theft of a work van and snowblower from two different homes in the ABC Streets are connected.
Police are searching for a "person of interest" who has numerous arrest warrants on file from neighboring departments for similar crimes.
On Feb. 17 at 724 a.m., a 1995 Chevy work van filled with tools and a ladder was stolen from her home on Edgemoor Avenue. Police found a Buick parked on the street nearby. It was still running and the steering column was peeled back. Police learned the car had been reported stolen from Garfield Heights.
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Witness statements have the van being taken sometime around 6:40 a.m.
On nearby Duneden Avenue at 7:36 a.m., a resident told police that someone entered his garage and stole his snowblower. The garage door had been left open.
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Police believe the suspect loaded the snowblower in the stolen van and made off with it.
The van was found later in Cleveland, but the tools and ladder missing.
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