AURORA, OHIO: Police are warning would-be trespassers not to set foot in an abandoned Northeast Ohio amusement park after a spike in arrests at the site this year.
Bainbridge Township Sgt. Frank Chickos tells WEWS-TV they’ve cited 46 people so far this year with trespassing at the former Geauga Lake amusement park.
He says a lot of the trespassers have been caught climbing on top of an old roller coaster that he says is basically a big piece of rotting wood. Chickos fears someone is going to fall through a piece of broken wood and get hurt.
Police have arrested a handful of trespassers since the park shut down in 2007. But that number has increased sharply since drone footage of the park was posted on the internet earlier this year.