WESTLAKE, Ohio (WJW) – An employee of a local group home is facing charges after investigators said he was drunk behind the wheel of a van with three developmentally disabled passengers.
Westlake police began searching for the van on the night of Oct. 20, after being alerted by a supervisor that the employee took the three residents for a drive but had not returned. At that time, he was already more than two hours overdue.
“They became alarmed. This driver wasn’t answering his phone and they knew that all three patients needed to have medications and they were overdue for those already,” said Westlake Police Captain Jerry Vogel.
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Investigators said license plate readers and the van’s GPS revealed the vehicle was stationary in Avon Lake for two hours earlier that night and had been driven around Lorain County, Cleveland and Brooklyn before arriving back in Westlake…