--- title: Ohio Police on Hunt for Serial Pooper description: He has defecated on (and in) 19 cars in the last 3 years canonical: https://time.com/3742387/ohio-police-on-the-hunt-for-serial-pooper/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-12T16:24:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:37.986Z og:title: Ohio Police on Hunt for Serial Pooper og:description: He has defecated on (and in) 19 cars in the last 3 years og:url: https://time.com/3742387/ohio-police-on-the-hunt-for-serial-pooper/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ohio Police on Hunt for Serial Pooper twitter:description: He has defecated on (and in) 19 cars in the last 3 years twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ohio Police on the Hunt for Serial Pooper by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 12, 2015 4:24 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 12, 2015 4:24 PM UTC Ohio police are on the lookout for a mysterious serial pooper who has defecated on at least 19 cars in the last three years. Akron police said that the culprit was caught in the act and photographed Wednesday morning when pooping on the hood of a car. But according to [Cleveland.com,](http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2015/03/police%5Fman%5Fhas%5Fpooped%5Fon%5Fand%5Fi.html) the suspect has also reportedly pooped on door handles and in passenger seats of unlocked vehicles. A 2012 police report notes that “the excrement did not cause any damage to the car, but it did cause a big mess.” _Read next:_ [_Virginia Police Take to Facebook to Find Rightful Owner of Lost Cocaine_](http://time.com/3717144/police-facebook-cocaine/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3742387/ohio-police-on-the-hunt-for-serial-pooper/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3742387/ohio-police-on-the-hunt-for-serial-pooper/"},"headline":"Ohio Police on the Hunt for Serial Pooper","datePublished":"2015-03-12T16:24:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:37.986Z","description":"He has defecated on (and in) 19 cars in the last 3 years","url":"https://time.com/3742387/ohio-police-on-the-hunt-for-serial-pooper/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","police","Bizarre","Ohio"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3742387/ohio-police-on-the-hunt-for-serial-pooper/","name":"Ohio Police on the Hunt for Serial Pooper"}}]}] ```