Police Blotter: Impatient Black Friday Shoppers Cause Problems at Stores

The store at Eastgate was at capacity at 1:17 a.m. Nov. 25 and employees were not letting in additional customers, who were getting impatient. Police talked to the people outside and told them to calm down and follow instructions of the employees.

A woman refused to go to the back of the line at 12:07 a.m. Nov. 25 at Best Buy and police escorted her off of the property.

A caller at 11:54 p.m. Nov. 25 said he was robbed at gunpoint at Papa John's Pizza on Mayfield Road. The suspect was described at a black man weighing 200 pounds and wearing a ski mask. The caller told police there might had been an additional suspect. He didn't know if they left on foot or in a car. Police were unable to find a suspect.

A Painesville woman called at 6 p.m. Nov. 25 and said her teenage daughter was being harassed at Hillcrest Hospital by the new girlfriend of the woman's ex-husband.

A Genesee Avenue man called police at 4:07 p.m. Nov. 23 and said he let someone in his house a day earlier after the man claimed to be with the gas company and needing to read the meter. He said his wife followed the man to the basement and the man looked around and left. He then checked with the gas company and was told no one had been sent to the house.