stripped and abandoned

stripped and abandoned

fiction
edward w pritchard

Akron Police Department
Police Report
08/04/2005

Subject states he was driving from Akron to Portage County after work at a downtown Bank as a Loan officer alone when proceeding East on Newton Street [ cross street Sobul] he heard a thump on the right side of vehicle while briefly stopped at road construction interruption and looking in the rear view mirror a large black man and two children were attempting to enter the rear of his vehicle through the sliding van door. Subject force-abally removed three occupants from vehicle and driving approximately 75 feet discovered another child of age four or five was still in the rear of his Van under the rear seats. Subject stopped vehicle in front of 2615 Newton set emergency brake and flashers and walked child home to 2603 Newton a duplex apartment where he left child with two social workers, [ Robert Hughes. Pinter Dawes] involved in a Home inspection, who answered the door and returned to his Van to proceed East on Newton.

Van was stripped of front seats, distributor and wires, and a few dollars of change from console. Subject claimed he had locked Van and set flashers. Five welders working at Goodyear Flash saw two or three City workers working on the Van, one noted the time as 5:37PM and recalled seeing a man walking a child from van two or three minutes earlier.

Van was covered with liability insurance only according to subject by Nationwide companies but the vehicle was towed to Police impound further up Newton Street and vehicle has since disappeared.

Upon further inspection the apartment at 2603 Newton has been vacant for several months and no Ohio registered social workers exist by the names of Hughes, or Pinter.

Dodge van in question was totaled out for $800 paid to subject and considered stripped and abandoned for insurance purposes.