Crime & Safety
Birthday Ends Badly for Akron Woman
The following information was supplied by the Fairlawn Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A woman who called for help unlocking her vehicle at ended up getting her vehicle towed as she took a police-car ride to jail in Akron – all on her birthday.
The Akron woman called police at 2:17 p.m. Dec. 27 – her 19th birthday – to request assistance for keys locked inside her vehicle.
Police ran a check on her license plate number and discovered it belonged to a 2007 Pontiac – not the 2001 Chevrolet Lumina the plates were affixed to.
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Police then ran a check on the Lumina’s vehicle identification number and learned the proper license plates that were missing had expired.
Police then ran a computer check on the woman, who works as a cashier at a Fairlawn fast-food restaurant, and found an active warrant for her arrest through Akron Police Department for domestic violence/violation of a civil protection order.
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The woman was taken to the Fairlawn Police Department for processing before Akron Police took her in custody. The woman’s Chevy Lumina was towed from the mall parking lot by police order.