BROOK PARK, Ohio – A Brookdale Avenue resident called police at about 5 p.m. Sept. 12 and said that a 36-year-old Cleveland man he knew jumped his backyard fence, entered his yard and tried to open the rear sliding-glass door to his house.

The resident said the Cleveland man was demanding money the resident owed him. The resident told the man he didn’t have the money he owed.

The resident managed to hold the sliding glass door shut so that the man couldn’t enter his house. The man threatened to return that night and kill the resident. Then the man drove away.

The resident gave police photographs of the man he took as the man was leaving. Police identified the man by comparing his Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles photo with the photos the resident provided.

The resident told police that he

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