A Bowling Green man was arrested Tuesday after he reportedly stole his mother’s car from the 800 block of Napoleon Road on Monday. A license plate camera in Bowling Green hit on the stolen vehicle on East Wooster Street, Tuesday around 11 a.m.
Dispatch then notified BGPD officers that Frankie Hernandez, 42, had returned to the Napoleon Road apartment and was threatening family members there with a knife. Officers looking in a glass patio door reportedly saw Hernandez with long kitchen knives in both hands, with one pressed against his throat.
Police officers noted that they did not hear Hernandez threaten to harm anyone other than himself. The reports also indicated that Hernandez told police they would have to shoot him.
Eventually, Hernandez dropped the knives and came out of the apartment. The police division requested a follow up with Hernandez by a mental health professional.
Hernandez, who had outstanding warrants through Bowling Green Police Division, Wood County Sheriff’s Office and Hancock County Sheriff’s Office, was taken to Wood County Jail.
Hernandez told officers that the stolen car was parked near the apartment building. He said he was being held by someone he owed money to – and that person was still in the car.
Police located the vehicle and found Sheri Rister, 43, Toledo, in the driver’s seat of the car. Rister reportedly did not have a valid driver’s license.
Rister was arrested for receiving stolen property, and possession of drug abuse instruments for smoking crack that police reportedly found in her coat and wallet. She was also taken to the Wood County Jail.
