WESTLAKE, Ohio – An employee of a Westlake group home called the police department at 10:45 p.m. Oct. 20 to report that residents who left in a van with a staff driver were missing.

The driver and the three male residents had been gone for more than four hours on a trip that normally took only two hours. The three clients were disabled adults who were overdue for their medication, according to a police department press release.

Group home staff members were unable to reach the driver, but tracking applications indicated that the vehicle was traveling through Avon Lake, Cleveland, and Brooklyn.

While officers were taking a report, Flock license plate reading cameras spotted the van driving along Columbia Road in the city. At 11:40 p.m., a Westlake officer stopped it on Canterbury Road. T

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