Significant criminal activity, including impersonation of an officer and a felonious assault, kept
Bowling Green police busy over the weekend.
Police received a report at about 2 a.m. Sunday that a man was detaining subjects on the sidewalk at 200
E. Wooster St. after displaying a badge from his wallet and asking for identification. The subject,
Daniel R. Fial, 22, 1453 Briarwood Drive, allegedly verbally confronted a man who would not provide
identification, according to police. An EMT badge was located in Fial’s wallet and confiscated as
evidence. He was arrested for impersonating an officer.
Police arrested Erik H. Norris Jr., 22, a Bowling Green State University student from Michigan, stemming
from an incident Saturday at about 2 a.m. at the downtown Cla-zel Theater. According to police reports,
Norris struck a female who told police she was hit in the face after declining to dance with him.
Norris, who had a small cut on his neck, said he was grabbed and scratched and did not know who he hit.
The victim sustained a broken eye socket.
Police also responded to a auto-related incidents. Tires on a total of 13 vehicles were slashed in the
400 and 500 blocks of Ridge, Merry and Reed streets along the CSX railroad tracks between the Friday
evening hours and 7 a.m. Saturday.
Police are also following up on leads related to the theft of a blue 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee after about
12:30 a.m. on Saturday from Clough Street. Police have received a tip that the vehicle was sighted at a
hotel in Findlay.