BEACHWOOD, Ohio --

Theft: Cedar Road

At 4:40 p.m. Sept. 6, police responded to Dillard’s at Beachwood Place, where a man was suspected of shoplifting.

Store security pointed out the man to police, who approached the suspect at his car in the mall lot. When confronted about the theft of a $199 dress, the man said that he had offered to buy the dress for a woman and when she declined, he put it on the stroller he was pushing and merely forgot it was there when he left the store.

With the man were a child, 11, and a 4-month-old baby.

Police informed the man, 45, of Cleveland Heights, that he was to be arrested for theft and asked if he could contact someone to pick up the children. He replied that he did not know of anyone he could call.

When asked if the woman seen shopping with him co

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