CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO)- If you text while driving in Ohio, you run the risk of receiving a ticket very soon. Or will you?

19 Action News has learned that adults can't be pulled over for it!

What the law requires, is that if you're behind the wheel you've got to put the phone down.  Like the seat belt law, they can't pull you over for it alone, but make a move where you appear distracted and you will be stopped.

Experts say texting is the most dangerous distraction drivers do behind the wheel. 

Ohio is the 39th state to ban texting and if busted, you'll be out $150.

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The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force is offering a reward for information which would lead to the capture of fugitive Jose Santiago.

Santiago is wanted by the U.S. Marshals and the Puerto Rico Police. Back in January of 2011, Santiago was charged with murder after he allegedly shot a man to death after an argument.  Santiago immediately went on the run and fled Puerto Rico moving to the Cleveland-area jumping house to house staying with family members.    

Santiago is a 22-year-old Hispanic man standing approximately 5'06" and weighing 132 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes. Santiago is believed to be hiding somewhere in Cleveland. He also has a previous address near the 3300 block of W. 97^th St. in Cleveland.

If you have any information in reference to Jose Santiago, please contact the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force at 1-866-4WANTED or Text keyword WANTED and tip to 847411 (tip411) Tipsters can remain anonymous and reward money is available.

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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO)- In the past 12 months, Cleveland Police responded 44 times to a burglar alarm at a home on E 77th. However, not one of those alarms was valid.

A police response to unnecessary (false) alarms reduces the overall efficiency of the Division of Police by redirecting officers that could be handling legitimate calls for service or patrolling their assigned neighborhoods.

Of the 11,515 residential alarms dispatched to the Division of Police in 2011, a staggering 10,834 alarms were determined to be "false" alarms. That means an incredible 94% were false.

Cleveland has legislation that provides sanctions to business owners whose repeated false alarms create an unnecessary burden on police. However, there are currently no sanctions on private property owners whose false alarms create a similar burden.

So what's the bottom line?

If you have an alarm system at home, please make sure that it is functioning properly and if it isn't, insist that your alarm company get it fixed as soon as possible.

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