A Euclid woman, 45, was cited Sept. 10 for the theft of a $55 handbag.

She said she removed it from the store to show to her friend waiting in the parking lot and ask him for permission to purchase it.

She did not explain why she removed the price tag from it and ignored loss prevention as she was exiting the store.

Fraud: Mayfield Road

A Hobby Lobby manager said Sept. 4 that a woman made a fraudulent return by selecting two mirrors from the store and returning them for $300 worth of store credit.

She then used the credit to purchase $60 worth of merchandise.

Since she had to provide an ID to make the return, she was identified as Garfield Heights woman, 36. A warrant was subsequently issued for her arrest.

Theft: Mayfield Road

Sheetz management said Sept. 6 that a man had stolen items by pretending to scan them at a self-checkout register.

They said he only scanned his rewards card and received a receipt showing only that.

The Mayfield Heights man, 29, was identified through his vehicle registration.

Officers called him and he claimed that the payment must not have gone through when he used Apple Pay on his phone.

He came to the police station the following day and was issued a citation for theft by deception.

Disorderly conduct: Mayland Avenue

Around 10:30 p.m. Sept. 6, officers responded to a report of a man who had exited his vehicle and urinated in the roadway.

They located the vehicle in the roadway and subsequently found a loaded gun inside it.

The Bedford Heights man, 23, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, disorderly conduct and for having an open container of alcohol in the vehicle.

Making false alarms: Hawthorne Drive

A woman reported Sept. 7 that her ex-boyfriend had broken into her home the previous day and stolen a leaf blower and weed trimmer.

She was adamant that he broke into the home through an unlocked window, but officers found no evidence of forced entry.

Officers called the man, who explained that the items belonged to him and that he had taken them with him after spending the night at the home a few days earlier.

The woman continued to have inconsistencies regarding the reported burglary, so it was determined that the incident would be referred to the prosecutor for possible charges against her for making a false report.

Theft: SOM Center Road

Officers responded to a theft at Target Sept. 7 and found the three suspects walking near Micro Center with backpacks containing numerous stolen items.

They learned that the three were all related and lived together in East Cleveland.

A total of 19 items were stolen from Target and had a total value of $434.

The trio also had items found to have been stolen from Five Below and Old Navy.

One of the suspects, an 18-year-old woman, was arrested for theft.

The other two, a 14-year-old boy and girl, were released to a guardian at the police station.

Drugs: Mayfield Road

A leasing manager at the Gates Mills Place apartments turned over a baggie of marijuana that was found in a party room Sept. 9.

The marijuana weighed 236 grams, which was above the limit allowed by the state.

It was unknown who had left it in the party room, which had not been rented in the past 30 days.

Theft: SOM Center Road

A man stole two vacuum cleaners from Target Sept. 10 and left them behind in the parking lot as loss prevention followed him.

Loss prevention had been watching the man due to him being the suspect in a previous theft of Ninja Slushi machines.

Responding officers found the suspect's vehicle at the rear of the neighboring Blake House apartments and arrested the Cleveland man, 40, for theft and possession of drug abuse instruments.

He was a passenger in the vehicle driven by another Cleveland man, 42, who was arrested for driving under suspension.

Suspicion: Summit Drive

A woman reported Sept. 10 that several packages were delivered to her home in the name of her daughter, who had not ordered anything.

She believed they may have been sent to scare her daughter, who is the victim in an ongoing sexual abuse case.

Officers went through the packages with the woman and found them all to be filled with UPS shipping supplies.