Cocaine possession and trafficking: Columbia Road
Officers stopped a vehicle for driving without headlights at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 13 on Columbia Road near Center Ridge Road.
The 38-year-old male driver from Windsor, Ohio, was wanted by the Willoughby Police Department on a trespassing warrant. Westlake officers found him possessing eight individually wrapped plastic bags of white powder and a small spoon with residue. He admitted the bags contained cocaine.
Westlake officers arrested the suspect and charged him with possession of drugs and trafficking in cocaine, according to the department.
Prostitution: Clemens Road
Westlake officers arrested a 31-year-old woman from Atlanta for prostitution after they noticed a website advertisement on Jan. 15 that said the woman was seeking clients in the area of Westlake, Parma, Lakewood, and near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Officers, acting undercover, corresponded with the woman, agreed on a price, and set up a meeting at a Clemens Road, Westlake, hotel, where they arrested her for engaging in prostitution.
Arrest warrant: Clemens Road
A caller phoned the police department at 10:15 p.m. on Jan. 9 to report that a "child predator with an outstanding warrant" was staying at a Westlake home, according to a department press release.
Officers confirmed that the man was wanted on a felony warrant for a sex offender registration violation. However, he no longer lived at the Columbia Road home where the caller said he had been.
Officers traced the man to a hotel where he was staying on Clemens Road and arrested him without incident. He was turned over to the Lorain County Sheriff's Department on the outstanding warrant.
Stolen car recovered: Clemens Road
Officers at 11:45 a.m. on Jan. 14 discovered a vehicle reported as stolen from Wellington parked in the Red Roof Inn parking lot.
Officers learned that the couple who had been driving the stolen car were staying at the hotel but had since left, possibly as passengers in a ride-share vehicle.
OVI: I-90
Several callers just before midnight on Jan. 14 reported that a car spun out on I-90, striking a utility pole and possibly bringing down wires.
Officers found a Nissan Maxima in the highway ditch. The 24-year-old male driver was not injured. However, he appeared to be intoxicated, according to the police department. Officers administered field sobriety tests and then arrested the man for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and failure to control. He refused to take a breath test.