HUNTING VALLEY, Ohio (WOIO) – 19 News has learned Cleveland Browns player Jameis Winston’s car was stolen earlier this month.
The vehicle is a 2023 Cadillac Escalade, according to Hunting Valley police, who are assisting with the investigation.
The car was reportedly stolen on Jan. 21.
Officers are still searching for the SUV, and anyone with information is asked to contact Hunting Valley police.
Hunting Valley police continued to assist officers with Detroit’s stolen car unit after Browns quarterback Jameis Winston’s car was stolen from that Michigan city last week.
Hunting Valley Police Chief Mike Cannon said investigators in the Motor City contacted his department Jan. 25 after Winston’s 2023 Cadillac Escalade was stolen from a Detroit residence where it had been dropped off recently.
A local towing company, Interstate Auto, had picked up the Escalade from Winston’s home in Hunting Valley, with plans to have the SUV eventually taken to California.
The Interstate driver was given the Detroit address from which the transport to California was supposed to continue, Cannon said.
As requested by Detroit police, Hunting Valley entered Winston’s SUV into the Law Enforcement Automated Data System (LEADS) and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) as a stolen vehicle, with the date the theft occurred listed as Jan. 21.
Cannon said Monday (Jan. 27) that his department continued to work with the Detroit stolen car unit and remained “in the infancy” of the investigation.
The car theft happened in Detroit, but the transport originated from here,” Cannon said.
“So we took the report and entered it into LEADS and NCIC as a stolen vehicle as we continue to assist the Detroit police.”
Car crash (private property): SOM Center Road
A University School student, 17, escaped injury after his 2003 GMC Terrain drove over a snow mound.
He was trying to turn into an aisle toward his parking spot and collided in a chain reaction with three other parked cars around 8 a.m. Jan. 24.
The at-fault Terrain, registered to a Shaker Heights woman, first struck a 2025 Honda Civic owned by a Copley man.
The Civic sustained disabling damage to its rear driver’s side and wound up getting towed from the parking lot.
The impact drove the Civic into a 2023 Mazda CX-5 owned by a Northfield woman, then into a 2023 Kia Rio from Twinsburg.
Both of those vehicles sustained rear quarter-panel damage that still allowed them to be driven from the scene.
Police noted that all drivers were carrying insurance coverage at the time of the accident.
Damage to property: Partridge Lane
Police responded to a home around 3:45 p.m. Jan. 21 after an Amazon delivery truck got stuck in the driveway, then rutted the lawn and hit a fence.
Amazon’s corporate office was contacted.
Animal (miscellaneous): Fairmount Boulevard
An officer euthanized a deer at the farm property owned by Case Western Reserve University around 12:30 p.m. Jan. 19.
Car crash (deer): South Woodland Road
Police responded to a report of a car that had to be towed from the scene due to damage sustained from striking a deer around 5:15 p.m. Jan. 23.
The collision occurred along Ohio 87 between SOM Center Road (Ohio 91) and Chagrin River Road.
Suspicion: Chagrin River Road
Responding to a report of suspicious activity around 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23, police met with a dog walker and cautioned them about walking pets after dark.
