Crime & Safety

Man Arrives with Gun, Check Made Out in Deceased's Name: Both Happened on Same Street

The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department.

• A Wyndham Ridge Drive resident called the Stow Police Department when an intoxicated man showed up on his doorstep with a gun April 21.

Police arrived and arrested the man and charged him with prohibitions, a first-degree misdemeanor, in this situation.

The man, who is from Tallmadge, was released on a $500 personal recognizance bond.

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A few days later another report was received from another resident on Wyndham Ridge Drive. 

• A report was filed by someone living in an apartment on Wyndham Ridge Drive after she discovered someone she knew forged a check in her deceased father’s name April 23.

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The check was made out for $10,500.

Forgery, in this situation, is a fourth-degree felony.


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