Cleveland, OH
Man with machete causes security scare at Hopkins
CLEVELAND, OH — A man who witnesses said was armed with a machete and at least one other knife was taken into custody early Monday morning after a security scare at Cleveland Hopkins Airport.
Angelo Piazza was entering the north terminal to catch a flight back home to Florida when he said he noticed the man carrying what looked like a machete holder.
“He asked where I was flying,” said Piazza, who was wrapping up a two-week trip to see family near Solon. “I told him I was flying to Florida and he told me to have a safe flight.”
But as Piazza stood in line waiting to check his bag at the ticket counter, he said he noticed the man acting unusually.
“He got on the floor,” said Piazza. “He started like crawling around, maybe attempting a handstand. I mean it was all kinds of crazy stuff.”
Piazza said eventually, a Cleveland police officer arrived and took what looked like a nearly two-foot machete from the man.
“It’s definitely alarming that there’s a guy with a machete,” said Piazza.
Then he said the man continued to make a scene.
“I wouldn’t say shouting, but definitely some louder talking,” said Piazza. “And he’s got a knife to his own neck.”
That’s when Piazza picked up his cell phone and started recording.
By then, the man had jumped behind the Spirit Airlines ticket counter.
On the video, the man tells police and travelers inside the busy terminal that he’s peaceful and trying to get to Jerusalem, repeatedly telling the crowd he’s a prophet.
Video taken by a southeast Ohio mother and daughter preparing to fly to Florida shows police firing a Taser at the man.
The man then jumps a wall and runs away from police.
In the recording, you can see a knife in his hand as he runs toward the security line.
“I was absolutely worried for them,” said Piazza. “You just saw people like moving in sync like away, getting, you know, away from and they were pushing into each other and they didn’t care.”
He described the mood as tense, until the man jumped over a wall and onto stairs below.
According to a brief statement from an airport spokesperson, “The individual was quickly apprehended and taken into custody. Airport operations were not affected by this incident.”
But Monday evening, travelers we talked with said they were shocked something like this could happen inside the busy airport.
“Not in an airport,” said Caleb Samol of Cleveland. “You’re supposed to feel absolutely safe as possible here.”
“It just kind of speaks to the fact that, I don’t know if you can ever have a fully secure airport or fully secure public area in general,” said Amanda Jaronowski of Independence. “It’s the state of the world so it’s a little sad.”
Cleveland police have not released the name of the man taken into custody or said what charges he may face.
November 8, 1934 – January 22, 2026
Jane Carol Maisch Probst, 91, formerly of Ellicottville, NY and Bay Village, OH, passed away on January 22, 2026.
Born November 8, 1934, in Cleveland, OH, she was the daughter of the late Sterling Maisch and Irene Rothermel Maisch. She married Hubert “Bert” Probst on December 1, 1962, in Cleveland, OH, who predeceased her after 54 years, in 2017. She met Bert on a blind date in 1958 and married 4 years later.
Jane earned a degree in Medical Technology from Ohio University. She worked as a medical technologist at Lakewood Hospital in Lakewood, OH, and for a brief time in Saginaw, Michigan. She was instrumental in setting up the laboratory in the Pulmonary Medical Group in Fairview Park, OH, where she retired from before moving to Ellicottville, NY with her husband.
While raising a loving family in Bay Village, OH, winter weekends were spent traveling to and from Ellicottville, NY to ski at Holiday Valley Ski Resort, where they passed on their life-long passion to their children and grandchildren. Their ski adventures took them throughout North America and Europe. In 1985, Jane joined the Holiday Valley Ski School as a ski instructor. In 1988, Jane founded the Lounsbury Adaptive Ski Program at Holiday Valley, empowering people with disabilities to enjoy skiing using adaptive equipment. At the time, this was one of the first adaptive ski programs in the nation. Jane recruited the original staff of instructors and grew the program to what it is today. After 15 years she retired from adaptive ski instruction. Today the Lounsbury Adaptive Program provides over 200 adaptive lessons each season with over 40 qualified instructors.
After Jane and Bert moved full-time to Ellicottville, Jane spent 10 years as a volunteer at the Ellicottville Memorial Library. In 2019, Jane moved to Canterbury Woods Retirement Community in Williamsville, NY. There she volunteered for the on-site library, started a reading program for residents in assisted living and started a weekly singing club.
Jane was a longtime parishioner of St. Raphael Roman Catholic Church in Bay Village, OH, and Holy Name of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Ellicottville, NY, where she was a member of the choir.
Jane is survived by her children: Joseph (Donna), Mary (William), and Timothy (Tahira), 8 loving grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
In addition to her husband, Jane was predeceased by her brother John Maisch.
Friends may call at O’Rourke & O’Rourke Funeral Home, 25 River St, Salamanca, NY on Thursday, January 29, 2026 from 5 – 8 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Holy Name of Mary Roman Catholic Church, 22 Jefferson St, Ellicottville, NY on Friday at 10:30 a.m. with Rev. Charles Johnson as celebrant.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Lounsbury Adaptive Ski Program, Holiday Valley Resort, PO BOX 370, Ellicottville, NY 14731 or www.lounsburyadaptive.org/donate or the Ellicottville Memorial Library, 6499 Maples Rd, Ellicottville, NY 14731.
E-condolences can be sent to orourke.orourkefh@gmail.com or facebook.com/onofh
FOWLER TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The Ohio State Highway Patrol said Sunday that a man died in Trumbull County after he was hit by a snowplow while riding a snowmobile.
OSHP said at around 6:26 p.m., officers were dispatched to the intersection of SR 305 and Ridge Road in Fowler Township.
Richard Coelho Jr., 49, of Vienna, was going south on Ridge Road on a 1999 Ski-Doo snowmobile. Dale Onstott, 45, of Hartford, was heading west on SR 305 while operating a salt/plow truck.
Coelho came to a stop in the intersection, beyond the stop sign, OSHP said. He was then struck by the plow, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Onstott wasn’t injured, OSHP said.
The crash is under investigation.
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – This weekend is not a good time to fly, and travelers at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport are figuring that out quickly.
Kevin Flynn should be on his way to Aspen to ski the slopes, but his flight was interrupted.
“We were connecting in Chicago and that flight got canceled,” said Flynn.
He was rebooked on a flight four hours later after 2 p.m., but more than just Chicago is seeing delays and cancellations.
Atlanta, Baltimore, Cancun and Dallas are seeing cancelled and delayed flights in and out of Cleveland Hopkins before the big punch of the winter storm has even hit Northeast Ohio.
The National Weather Service says a winter storm warning is in effect from now to Monday.
Southern cities like Dallas are already seeing ice and sleet.
Cheryl Caris is heading to Fort Meyers, Florida for a family vacation but has a connecting flight in Atlanta.
Starting Saturday night an ice storm warning is in effect for most of north Georgia, including metro Atlanta.
Guess how many times Caris has checked her weather app.
“Constantly, Delta keeps informing us,” said Caris.
This is a glimpse into possible delays and cancellations this weekend into Monday.
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