CARLISLE TWP. — Rescue squads responded to a rollover accident on Middle Avenue by the railroad tracks in Carlisle Township overnight that left a vehicle heavily damaged, according to first responders.

The one-car accident happened about 12:15 a.m. According to the State Highway Patrol, a report is not complete, and the trooper who handled the crash has gone home, so they will have no information to release for a day or so. An Elyria police spokesman did not return a call seeking comment.

According to initial reports, occupants of the vehicle were fighting in the roadway after the accident. Officers who arrived on the scene reported that at least two people from the vehicle were seen running from the scene.

Not long after, a homeowner on Middle near the tracks reported individuals were hiding in pine trees in her backyard. She said she could hear one screaming “Come help me!”

Police quickly apprehended a black male who said his name was “Bud.” He told officers the man who remained at large was his boyfriend.

Elyria police sent a canine unit to the scene. Officers believed the man who they were seeking lived on Delaware Circle in the nearby Colonial Oaks Mobile Home Park and might have been headed home. An Elyria fire engine was called to the scene to provide lighting.

The Highway Patrol later reported that the vehicle owner was waiting at the Colonial Oaks entrance and claimed his vehicle had been stolen. It was not immediately clear if that was the same man they were looking for or whether either was located.

Officers checked several homes in Colonial Oaks and also reported they were going to search a barn on Middle Avenue at a homeowner’s request.

The Carlisle Township Fire Department was also called to the scene.

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CT photo by Bruce Bishop.

NORTH RIDGEVILLE — An Avon woman was LifeFlighted from the scene after she crashed a motorcycle she was riding into a brick wall.

The accident was reported a little before 12:30 p.m. today. According to police, the woman is 55 years old and has a learner’s permit for the motorcycle. North Ridgeville officers had not completed their report, so the woman’s identity is not yet available.

She crashed the motorcycle into a brick wall bordering the North Ridgeville Education Center on Center Ridge Road.

According to North Ridgeville fire Lt. Jon Graf, the woman was practicing on the motorcycle in a parking lot when she lost control. He estimated her speed when she hit the wall was about 40 mph.

Graf couldn’t say what her injuries were or how badly hurt she was, adding just that she was LifeFlighted “out of concern over the mechanism of injury,” basically because motorcycle accidents are notorious for being life threatening.

Graf said he didn’t know what type of motorcycle she was riding but said that it “looked like a Harley.”

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LORAIN — Two woman and a teen girl are facing theft charges, and the two women also face charges for contributing to the delinquency of a minor for setting a poor example for the teen after they attempted to shoplift at Kohl’s in Lorain late last week, according to a police report. (more…)

LORAIN — Drugs with a street value in the hundreds of thousands of dollars were seized during a bust Thursday evening in Lorain. Officers also seized nine vehicles, four guns and a large amount of cash.

Lorain police Lt. Edward Super said the Lorain Police Department assisted on an investigation initiated by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office. He said the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office learned that individuals were selling a kilo of cocaine for $36,000 at an address on West 17th Street.

According to Super, the home, 1426 W. 17th St., was a known drug house and supposed chop shop police had been watching. The tip prompted officers to act immediately, however.

Officers initially arrested four individuals and later arrested a fifth man who held the lease of the property.

Arrested were: Luis Robledo, 19, of Lorain; Ruben Deleone, 24, of Lorain; Luis Morales, 27, of Lorain; and Lucas Morales and Y. Adorno, according to Super.

Super said Adorno was arrested for trafficking in cocaine, while Robledo, Deleone and Luis Morales were arrested for conspiracy to traffic cocaine. He said Lucas Morales was arrested for drug abuse and having weapons under disability.

Super said officers believed the individuals were also selling stolen property, as they were working on vehicles that may be stolen in a garage on the property.

Super said that three vehicles being worked on in the garage were initially seized. Officers later secured a search warrant for the property, so, in addition to the initial $36,000 kilo of cocaine and three vehicles, they seized six more cars, $26,000 in cash, three handguns, a shot gun and another 6 ounces of cocaine.