Pay stations used to fund copies and scans were robbed in at least four Cleveland Public Library branches this summer.
Six times in August, one suspect burglarized the Langston Hughes, Addison, Lorain, and Fleet branches, among a possible string of others, for the sole purpose of taking the cash used to pay for library services, police reports detailed. No suspect has yet been arrested.CPL's Chief Strategy Officer Tana Peckham confirmed the crimes on Friday.
"We have had a series of break ins," Peckham said."They’re all active investigations with the Cleveland Police Department. We are cooperating with the police to be able to identify, and find out, who may have done this.” As the police reports detail, one man, typically wearing a hoodie and a face covering, has been breaking into CPL branches since at least August. After smashing windows with a pipe, usually around 3:30 in the morning, the man smacks open the control panel of the library's cash machine. He pockets an unknown amount of money, then flees.On August 28th, CPD officers caught a theft in-progress at the Addison branch at 6901 Superior Ave.
And on August 6th, a private security guard arrived at the scene at the Addison branch. The thief ran at the guard with a metal pipe, the report read. The guard said he fired three shots, though the officers could"not locate the spent rounds." "Once in the library, the suspect took the library card purchasing machine and forced it open by beating it with the pipe," the report reads."He also attempted to take it out the window but was unsuccessful."Mark Oprea is a staff writer at Scene. For the past seven years, he's covered Cleveland as a freelance journalist, and has contributed to TIME, NPR, the Pacific Standard and the Cleveland Magazine. He's the winner of two Press Club awards.
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