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Lorain Ohio Po9lice Officer David Kusnir Illegally Bars City Councilman Dennis Flores From Neighborhood Watch Meeting
July 19th, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO — When City Councilman Dennis Flores showed up to a neighborhood watch meeting Thursday night, he was firmly asked to leave.
Several watch captains met at City Hall to plan a crime-prevention picnic in August. Flores said he is a watch captain, too, but when he tried to get into the meeting, he was stopped by Lorain police officer David Kusznir.
“He said he didn’t want me there,” Flores said. “I was worried that if I went in there, they would call the police and have me escorted off the property.”
Flores, D-2nd Ward, was charged May 23 with DUI and trying to solicit a prostitute. He was one of six men arrested during a citywide sting.
A pretrial has been set in Lorain Municipal Court for Aug. 22, but in the meantime, Flores said police who run the city’s neighborhood watch aren’t giving him any breaks.
Read MoreDayton Ohio Police Officers Shot Blind Woman Suffering From Cancer With Taser Weapon After She Refused To Talk To Them
July 17th, 2008
DAYTON, OHIO - Dayton police said they went to an apartment building on Fernwood Avenue looking for a robbery suspect and ended up tazing the man’s mother who is legally blind.
The incident happened on Fernwood Avenue Thursday.
Police said 49-year-old Denise Harris refused to talk with them and became combative, striking out at an officer. According to officers, when they tried to arrest her, she resisted and they tased her.
Neighors said the officers used unnecessary force on the blind woman, who is also suffering from diabetes and cancer.
Sgt. Charles Anderson said Harris will be charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, but the incident is under investigation.
Harris was taken to the hospital by an ambulance to be checked out. Appeared Here
Ohio State Police Caught Cheating On DUI Breathalyzer Proficiency Exams
July 17th, 2008
OHIO - Police officers administering tests used to determine whether a motorist is guilty of a serious drunk driving offense may not actually know what they are doing. The Ohio Inspector General yesterday released a scathing report that accused a state highway patrol post of cheating on tests used to certify proficiency with breathalyzer units.
“This is not solely about cheating on a test that admittedly the vast majority of law enforcement officers can pass, it is about the public’s expectation that public safety officials should maintain the highest levels of integrity at all times,” the report stated. “Cheating, no matter the circumstances, has no place in a law enforcement agency. It cannot be tolerated, encouraged, or condoned.”
Read MoreUpdate: Mount Gilead Ohio Police Officer Joseph Hughes Fired, Faces Additional Theft Charges
July 15th, 2008
MOUNT GILEAD, OHIO - A Mount Gilead police officer accused of stealing air-conditioning units from Morrow County has been fired amid more criminal charges.
Deputies arrested Joseph Hughes, 26, on Saturday for the second time in a week after finding more stolen items during a search his home and another location, said Chief Deputy Dave Davis of the Morrow County sheriff’s office.
Investigators found a mower, grass trimmer and a generator that had been reported missing about a year ago from Candlewood Lake, a gated community in northern Morrow County, Davis said.
An earlier search uncovered a dozen air conditioners and a trailer that were reported missing from the county’s community services building June 9.
Hughes initially was arrested and charged with two counts of receiving stolen property and one count each of obstructing justice, theft in office and tampering with evidence. He now faces five more felonies: two counts of grand theft, two counts of tampering with evidence and one count of breaking and entering.
Read MoreSecond Search Leads To Arrest And More Charges Against Mount Gilead Ohio Police Officer Joseph Q. Hughes
July 15th, 2008
MOUNT GILEAD, OHIO — A police officer already facing charges, including one count of theft in office, is back in custody.
Joseph Q. Hughes, formerly of the Mount Gilead Police Department, has been charged with five more felonies, states a press release issued Tuesday, July 15, by the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office.
Hughes is accused of being connected with two different thefts, one involving 12 window air conditioners and a single axle trailer and the other involving a lawn mower.
The air conditioners and trailer were found behind Hughes’s home on July 8 during a search. Warrants for a second search of his home and a property on County Road 11 in Morrow County recovered the stolen lawn mower.
Read MoreHigh Gas Prices Means Fewer Cops, Less Public Transit, And More Potholes
July 14th, 2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - In what seems to be a perverse reaction to high gas prices, some cities are cutting back on public transit - at a time when their citizens need it most.
Due to skyrocketing fuel costs local governments are being forced to trim all sorts of services - not only busses - but police departments and road repair crews too.
The Montana Highway Patrol, after failing to find enough police recruits, is using $300,000 that had been set aside for more officers to pay the gas bill instead.
Sheriff’s departments in Maryland and Florida have also reportedly cut patrol routes or officers.
“They’re not going to fill positions because they don’t have the dough,” said Ronald Reucker, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. “It’ll mean more speeding, more drunk drivers, and more fatal crashes.”
Read MoreFired Miami County Ohio Game Warden Jason Snyder Sentenced To Jail And Probation And Suspended 5 1/2 Year Prison Sentence For Tampering With Records And Falsification
July 14th, 2008
TROY, OHIO — An ex-game warden in Miami County told a judge Monday that what he did was a “terribly stupid series of mistakes.”
Jason Snyder, of Tipp City, was sentenced for tampering with records and falsification.
Snyder, who lost his job over the incident, was placed on community controlled sanctions for two years, handed a suspended five and half years in prison. He was immediately taken into custody to begin serving 60 days in the county jail.
Two “False Alarms” Over Lorain Ohio County Community College Leave Real Concern Over Their Timing - As Police Terrorize Innocent Civilians
July 14th, 2008
ELYRIA, OHIO - For the second time in recent weeks, an Elyria police training exercise, complete with simulated gunshot sounds, at Lorain County Community College has alarmed unsuspecting citizens, despite planners extensive efforts to avoid such undue alarm.
By now, authorities need to realize that however valuable the training, however careful the preparation and however much public notice is provided, not everybody will get the message, and some public alarm is almost inevitable.
The resulting confusion and potential for bad unintended consequences needs to be noted, even though the police guns are unloaded and gunfire sounds are simulated. These drills, training police to respond to gunmen on the campus, should be moved to a time before dawn or whenever else the general public will not encounter them.
Read MoreGuns Drawn, Crazed Elyria Ohio Police Invade Wrong Building, Terrorize Children And Parents Attending Willy Wonka Play - Gun Pointed At Lorain County Children’s Pioneer Theatre Technical Director
July 13th, 2008
ELYRIA, OHIO - An Elyria police training exercise surprised a group of people attending a childrens production at Lorain County Community College Friday night, as officers went through Stocker Center with guns drawn just before the play began.
The drill was part of an ongoing series of training exercises that Elyria police are performing at the college. An LCCC official said yesterday that Stocker Center was not a building that was supposed to be included in the exercise.
Allegations have also surfaced that a gun was pointed at Lorain County Children’s Pioneer Theatre Technical Director J.R. Simons, but he declined to comment on them yesterday prior the second performance of the play. Simons is also the acting president and treasurer of the board of drustees for the theater company.
The group was putting on a production of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”
Read MoreLorain Ohio Police Officer Shot With BB Gun While Jogging
July 13th, 2008
ELYRIA, OHIO — Someone shot a Lorain police officer with a BB or pellet gun while he was jogging Wednesday afternoon along Lowell Street, according to Elyria police.
The officer was jogging Wednesday around 4 p.m. when he believes someone shot a pellet of BB gun at him on Lowell Street near Murray Ridge Road. The officer told Elyria police he saw three white males, in their teens or 20s, in a a black Dodge pickup truck in the area at the time.
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The Lorain officer had a 1-inch diameter red area on his back from the incident, the report said. He said the projectile broke his skin, but he did not sustain any serious injuries.
”It broke the skin and (drew) blood a little bit,” he said.
The office believed it was a random act and he was not targeted. Elyria police checked the area but did not find the truck.
Read MoreVeteran Lorain Ohio Police Officer Sgt. James Wolford Under Investigation, But Remains On Duty Despite 4 Separate Complaints Against Him
July 11th, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO — Police are investigating four separate complaints against police Sgt. James Wolford, who remains on active duty.
But police officials won’t say what accusations have been leveled against the veteran officer, who has been on the hot seat before.
Lt. Jim Rohner, who is heading up the investigation into Wolford, said the complaints were confidential.
Police Chief Cel Rivera — who deferred comment on the investigation to Rohner — is aware of the investigation and decided to keep Wolford on the road, Rohner said.
One of the complaints dates back to fall of last year, Rohner said, but he would not elaborate on why it’s only now being investigated. The other three incidents took place within the past few months, Rohner said.
Rohner also is handling the investigation into veteran patrolman Jack Brown, who is accused of using racial slurs and spitting on his niece during a drunken Fourth of July incident. Brown also remains on duty.
Read MoreMount Gilead Ohio Police Officer Joe Hughes Charged With Theft, Receiving Stolen Property, Tampering With Evidence After Morrow County Courthouse Air Conditioners Surface In His Back Yard
July 11th, 2008
MOUNT GILEAD, OHIO — A Mount Gilead police officer was arrested Tuesday on charges of receiving stolen property — including a dozen air conditioners used to cool the Morrow County courthouse.
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“We were shocked and surprised. News in a small community travels extremely fast,” Morrow County Commissioner Olen Jackson said.
Morrow County deputies searched the residence of third-shift village police officer Joe Hughes. The stolen property, a single-axle trailer and several air-conditioning units, were behind Hughes’ residence, according to a news release from Mount Gilead Police Chief Brian Zerman.
Hughes was the officer who took the theft report June 9, Morrow County Sheriff Steve Brenneman said.
Hughes has been charged with one count of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; one count of theft in office, a fourth- degree felony; two counts of receiving stolen property, fifth-degree felonies; and one count of obstruction of justice, a fifth-degree felony.
Read MoreFormer Veteran Lebanon Ohio Police Officer Larry Loveless Receives Less Than A Slap On The Wrist After Stealing And Selling Worthless Gun From Police Property Room And Selling It To A Friend Who Ran Off With His Wife
July 11th, 2008
LEBANON, OHIO – His mistake was taking an almost worthless .32-caliber revolver from the police property room and selling it for $100 to a friend who would later run off with his wife.
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He got caught when the break-up turned ugly and the gun theft was brought to the attention of police, his lawyer said.
Larry Loveless, a Lebanon police officer for a decade, was spared prison Friday after pleading guilty earlier in Warren County Common Pleas Court to theft in office and theft of a firearm. He faced up to 15 years in prison.
“There are two dumb things that Larry did,” defense attorney Pete Rosenwald told Judge Neal Bronson. “The number one dumb thing obviously was taking the weapon from the property room where he had control of it. (The other) was to give it to another person who, as it turned out, was having an affair with his wife which brought the problem to Lebanon’s attention.”
Read MorePayback? - Retired Canton Ohio Police Officer Earl Schoeneman Killed In His Home
July 11th, 2008
CANTON, OHIO - A retired Canton police officer has been murdered in his Canton home, and a suspect is in custody.
The body of 76-year-old Earl Schoeneman was discovered by his daughter Thursday morning. Stark County Coroner P.S. Murthy on Friday ruled the death a homicide. Schoeneman is a former police sergeant.
On Friday, 48-year-old Darnell Goodgame of Canton was arrested and charged with aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary. Goodgame’s home is near Schoeneman’s.
Police Capt. Thomas Ream declined to discuss the circumstances surrounding the death would not say if police are seeking other suspects.
The coroner declined to release autopsy details. Appeared Here
Fresh From Suspension For Showing Up To Work Drunk, Veteran Lorain Ohio Police Officer Jack Brown Under Investigation For Drunken And Menacing Behavior, Racial Slurs, Spitting At A Kid After Showing Up Drunk At Child’s Birthday And Passing Out On Couch
July 8th, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO - Veteran Lorain police officer Jack Brown is the subject of an internal investigation after allegations of drunken and menacing behavior surfaced against him.
Police were called to 120 Waverly Place around 10 p.m. Friday after Brown, who recently returned to the force after being suspended for showing up to work drunk, allegedly directed racial slurs to one of the hosts and his stepdaughter.
Susan James said she was throwing her 15-year-old daughter a birthday party when her sister showed up with an intoxicated Brown, who is her fiancé. The couple was with her niece and Brown’s two children. James wanted Brown to leave immediately, but her boyfriend convinced her to give him a chance.
It wasn’t long until Brown was allegedly stumbling around and had passed out briefly on a couch, James said. She said no alcohol was given to him at her residence.
Read MoreFormer Ross County Ohio Deputy Sheriff, Chillicothe Correctional Institution Employee Larry L. Grant Jr. Arested, Charged With Sexual Battery Of An Inmate
July 5th, 2008
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO - A former case worker at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution faces a pretrial hearing on sex-related charges.
Larry L. Grant Jr., 40, of 472 Chestnut St., faces three counts of sexual battery, a third-degree felony, involving an inmate at CCI. Grant also formerly worked for the Ross County Sheriff’s Office and the Adult Parole Authority.
The June 27 session of the grand jury issued the indictment, and Grant was arrested last weekend. He pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday and was released on his own recognizance by Common Pleas Judge Scott Nusbaum - with the stipulation he have no contact with the alleged victim.
Prosecutor Mike Ater would not go into details concerning the involvement, but said the case centers around Grant having an inappropriate relationship with the inmate. Ater said his office became aware of the incident around June 10, when a lawyer representing the victim contacted him to report the incident.
Read More“Mentally Disturbed” Former Cincinnati Ohio Police Officer Daryle Williams Arrested, Charged With Receiving Stolen Property
July 5th, 2008
CINCINNATI, OHIO - One moment, former Cincinnati Police Officer Daryle Williams’ gold Nissan Altima was in police impound. The next moment, police say, it was back with Williams.
What happened in between is unclear - police say it was stolen from the lot June 20; Williams denies having seen the car - but on Wednesday, the 40-year-old Roselawn man was arrested on a charge of receiving stolen property. Williams volunteers at church and runs a program for convicted felons, his lawyer said Thursday in court.
But Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Betsy Sundermann painted a different of the former cop, saying officers believe he is “mentally disturbed.”
A judge ordered Williams held on $10,000 bond. Appeared Here
Canton Ohio Police Officer Anthony Jackson’s Felony Indictment For Gun In Bar Reinstated By Appeals Court, City To Decide If He Is Paid During Current Suspension
July 4th, 2008
CANTON, OHIO - Safety Director Tom Nesbitt heard arguments Thursday about whether to continue paying suspended police Officer Anthony Jackson.
Jackson has been on paid leave since an appeals court reinstated a felony indictment against him. Jackson is accused of having a gun in a Perry Township bar during an off-duty incident. Canton Police Chief Dean McKimm suspended Jackson with pay last week.
Jackson has since filed a lawsuit against the city saying it violated a “Last Chance Employment Agreement” the city granted him after firing him in October. The city had claimed that more than once he had misused alcohol and a firearm while off duty, and that he showed an “inability to control his temper in stressful situations.”
Nesbitt confirmed Thursday afternoon that he presided over a hearing involving the city police and law departments and the Canton Police Patrolmen’s Association, the police union which represents Jackson. The hearing will allow Nesbitt to determine whether to continue paying the suspended officer.
Read MoreBlack Woodmere Village Ohio Mayor Yolanda Broadie Accused Of Discriminating Against White Police Officers
July 2nd, 2008
WOODMERE VILLAGE, OHIO - Federal investigators with the U.S. Department of Justice conduct a search at Woodmere Village Hall. The village faces a lawsuit, accusing its black mayor of discriminating against white police officers.
Last week, a federal judge ordered the village to open its files to the Justice Department and attorneys for two fired police officers. Investigators wheeled in a copy machine to copy files as part of the suit. “We don’t have anything to hide, so whatever they feel they need that they don’t have, feel free,” said Woodmere Mayor Yolanda Broadie.
“This is an upside down case…who’d have ever thought that a black community’s being prosecuted for excluding white people, it’s astonishing, but the law applies to all Americans and that’s why this case is going forward,” said Avery Friedman, attorney for one of the fired officers.
Read MoreSuspended Lorain Ohio Police Officers Jesus “Jesse” Sanchez And Stanley Marrero Back On The Payroll
July 1st, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO - Two indicted Lorain police officers will be back on city payroll beginning today.
Jesus Sanchez and Stanley Marrero have been on unpaid administrative leave since May 1. However, the Ohio law limits the amount of time the two men can be on unpaid administrative leave to two months, according to Safety Director Phil Dore.
”We would have preferred to keep them on unpaid leave but are restricted by law to two months,” he said.
Dore said he would meet with police Chief Cel Rivera and Law Director Mark Provenza to determine what the two men could do rather than stay on paid leave.
”Obviously, it’s, in our opinion, in the best interest of the community that if we’re paying these people, we should identify a task that needs to be completed and have them work on it rather than give them a free ride at home,” Dore said.
Read MoreFormer East Cleveland Ohio Police Officer Det. Tiffiney Cleveland Indicted By Federal Grand Jury For Drug Scheme - Faces Several Fraud Counts Also - Married A Drug Dealer Who Is Now Serving A Life Sentence For Selling Cocaine
June 25th, 2008
EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO - A federal grand jury has indicted a former East Cleveland detective on charges she used police computers to help her drug-dealing husband avoid an undercover investigation.
Tiffiney Cleveland is charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and unauthorized use of a computer, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court.
Cleveland, 40, also faces several counts of fraud for providing false information on mortgage and vehicle loans.
Cleveland’s woes stem from her relationship with long-time drug dealer Lesean Roberts, whom she married in June 2005. Roberts, 39, is serving a life sentence for selling cocaine after drug agents arrested him in July 2006.
Mayor Eric Brewer demoted Cleveland shortly after Roberts’ arrest put the detective under a cloud of suspicion. Brewer fired Cleveland in October.
City officials were aware of the federal investigation and cooperated, Brewer said. “We’re cleaning up our own house,” Brewer said.
Read MoreCanton Ohio Police Officer John Clark Gets A Baseball Bat Beating In Walmart Sporting Goods Department
June 24th, 2008
CANTON, OHIO - Authorities say an Ohio police officer is hospitalized in satisfactory condition after being struck with a baseball bat inside a Wal-Mart store.
Canton police say 58-year-old Officer John Clark was responding to a call about a suspicious person Sunday afternoon. Lt. Roger Crihfield says investigators believe the suspect picked up a baseball bat in sporting goods and waited for the officer to approach.
Crihfield says Clark was struck in the face and knocked down, then hit a second time while on the floor. Police say customers intervened to stop the attack.
The suspect was arrested about a block from the store. The charges against 23-year-old David Carter of Canton include felonious assault on a police officer. Appeared Here
Cincinnati Ohio Mayor Mark Mallory To Veto Proposed Red-Light Cameras In City - Group Collects Signatures To Ban The Cameras
June 18th, 2008
CINCINNATI, OHIO - Cincinnati won’t ever have red-light cameras if Mayor Mark Mallory gets his way.
The mayor said Tuesday that he would veto any ordinance permitting them.
“I’m not convinced that they achieve their stated goal” of improved safety, he said at his weekly meeting with reporters.
It would be the first time Mallory used his veto. His predecessor, Charlie Luken, vetoed red-light cameras the last time City Council tried to add them in 2005.
Valerie Lemmie, city manager at the time, brought the idea from her previous city, Dayton, Ohio.
It takes six of the nine council votes to override a mayoral veto and, as of Tuesday, there weren’t six council members who said they’d support the ordinance as written.
The four opponents: Chris Monzel, Chris Bortz, Jeff Berding and Leslie Ghiz.
But the votes could change as the debate continues.
Read MoreColumbus Ohio Police Officers Attack Peaceful Native American Prayer Walkers, Threaten Walkers With Taser Weapons
June 15th, 2008
COLUMBUS, OHIO – Unprovoked Columbus, Ohio police attacked Long Walkers, by first pointing a taser at the head of Michael Lane and then forcing Luv the Mezenger to the ground and handcuffing him.
The Longest Walk Northern Route was walking this prayer through Columbus on Monday, June 2, when police squad cars and arrest wagons arrived. Without discussion of the purpose of the prayer walk, or verifying that the Ohio Department of Transportation had been notified of the prayer walk, police attacked the walkers.
Michael Lane, who arrived on the walk with his wife, Sharon Heta, Maori, and their children from New Zealand, was targeted by police with a taser.
As dozens of police came at the walkers, a police officer held a taser three feet away from Lane’s head.
Read MoreFormer Zanesville Ohio Police Officer Trevor Fusner Seeks Reduction Of Federal Prison Sentence For Drug Offenses
June 13th, 2008
ZANESVILLE, OHIO - There’s a report out this morning that two former police officers facing 10-years in prison on federal drug charges are asking that their sentences be reduced.
Chad Mills and Trevor Fusner will face a judge on Thursday for their sentencing. Mills, a former Genesis Health Care System police officer is asking that his sentence be reduced to five-years and Fusner a former Zanesville police officer is asking for a 30-month sentence.
Reportedly the former officers are citing their prior record and their attorneys agree that a lesser sentence would be appropriate.
Both officers and former Zanesville police officer Sean Beck were arrested last year on drug charges. Beck is set to be sentenced in a couple of months. He is facing a 20-year sentence.
Drunk Driving Charges Conveniently Disappear For Lorain Ohio City Service Director Robert Gilchrist
June 12th, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO — When city Service Director Robert Gilchrist was hired, he had a pending drunken driving charge.
Last month, Gilchrist pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of reckless operation. He was found guilty and received a suspended jail sentence.
Gilchrist said he wasn’t drinking when his 1995 Mercedes went off the road and struck a hill around 1:30 a.m. Nov. 14 in Toledo.
“I was coming home from work and fell asleep at the wheel,” he said.
Despite a summary of the incident on the ticket he was issued in the crash that says Gilchrist performed poorly on field sobriety tests, he insists he did fine. He also said he didn’t refuse a breath test when he was booked into the Lucas County Jail, as the ticket said he had.
Gilchrist said he asked for his attorney and the corrections officer administering the test didn’t push the issue of the breath test.
Read MoreFour Franklin County Ohio Deputies Sexually Harassed Female Deputies, Forced New Recruits To Act Out Nursery Rhymes - Jeffrey Gunn, Highest Ranking Officer Demoted After Sending Photo Of His Genitals From Jail With Cellphone - Sgt. Mathew Worthington Suspended For Intimidating And Insulting Subordinates
June 5th, 2008
FRANKLIN COUNTY, OHIO - Closed door hearings could begin as early as next week for four Franklin County deputies at the Jackson Pike jail who are accused of harassment.
An an internal investigation accuses them of sexually harassing female deputies and demeaning new recruits by making them act out nursery rhymes like I’m a Little Teapot and Ring Around the Rosie.
“I’m very upset about it,” Sheriff Jim Karnes said of the offenses which are grounds for suspension or dismissal. “This is a ridiculous event that took place.”
Investigators learned that Jeffrey Gunn, 38, the highest ranking officer, took pictures of his genitals with his cell phone at the jail and sent them to his wife. He’s been demoted from lieutenant to sergeant.
Sgt. Mathew Worthington, 35, was suspended with pay last month after investigators say he intimidated subordinates who were bringing accusations against him.
Read MoreCanton Ohio, Home Of Killer Cop Bobby Cutts, Jr., Criminalizes Lawns And Gardens
June 3rd, 2008
CANTON, OHIO - Homeowners who don’t mow their grass in the northeast Ohio city of Canton now face stiffer penalties - including possible jail time.
The city council unanimously passed a law Monday that makes a second high-grass violation a fourth-degree misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to $250 and as many as 30 days in jail.
The previous law only made the first violation a minor misdemeanor, with a fine of up to $150 but no jail time. The new law is to take effect in 30 days.
“This is the type of action we need to take in order to clean up our neighborhoods and our city,” Mayor William J. Healy II said.
The laws are an effort to reduce the roughly $250,000 the city spends to cut about 2,000 private lots each year and to address public complaints, Councilman Greg Hawk has said. Appeared Here
Castle Doctrine Bill Comes Up In Ohio: Shoot To Kill - Dead Men Tell No Tales
June 2nd, 2008
COLUMBUS, OHIO - Potential victims who harm or kill apparent intruders in their homes or vehicles would get the legal benefit of the doubt under a just-passed bill destined to get Gov. Ted Strickland’s signature.
Sponsored by state Sen. Stephen Buehrer (R., Delta) and pushed by the National Rifle Association, the measure served as a magnet for changes to Ohio’s 4-year-old law allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns.
The changes will make it easier for motorists to carry weapons in their cars and in school zones and will prohibit landlords from forbidding tenants from having guns in their rented residences.
The measure was among a flurry of bills sent to the governor this week as lawmakers near summer recess. It won strong bipartisan support in both chambers, despite a lack of support from some law enforcement organizations.
The bill would take effect 90 days after Mr. Strickland signs it.
Read MoreLarge Corporate Firewall And Proxy Filter Provider Selects Blogger June Maxam’s Tiny North Country Gazette Site As A Primary News Source - Just Kidding! They’ve Blocked Her Entire Site Amid “Security Concerns”
June 2nd, 2008
CHESTERTOWN, NEW YORK - A Bad Cop News supporter reports that (his/her employer) a large proxy/firewall company protecting the safety and security of many Fortune 1000 firms has permanently blocked blogger June Maxam’s little North Country Gazette website. This action was taken a while ago, but we just found out today.
Supposedly “…it would take at least an act of God at this point..” to remove her blog’s domain and Ez Web’s IP addresses from the list of banned internet destinations.
Our supporter provided legal access to two corporate internal proxy servers with which we verified that their networks cannot access Maxam’s blog. Above is the error screen (identifying information and graphics/logos removed - click for a larger image) visitors see in place of Maxam’s blog. The second company’s server returned the same information in a slightly different format.
At this point 1.38 million (est. by services provider) visitors are blocked. A “trickle down effect” assures that sites on the provider’s ban list generally end up banned in other proxy/firewall company’s products. The number of blocked visitors can only increase as the hours pass…
Considering the extraordinary amount of time and effort June Maxam expends READING her site’s log files and banning visitors based on their domains, search queries, or browsing patterns, maybe she’ll have time to concoct more bogus conspiracy theories (ie: “Google Spoofing“) or investigate “Jack MeHoff“.
Maxam recently (again) “suspended” her little dog and pony show (unable to resist taking a shot at two of her victims including Bad Cop News), while whining about her blog’s lack of advertising revenue. Her posts restarted a couple of days latter, with no advertising visible besides the infestation of pay-per-click spam down the right side.
LOL! No good content = no traffic = no advertisers = no revenue. Its really basic and doesn’t require a degree in Rocket Science…)
Bad Cop News can’t and doesn’t take any credit for the above action.
There is nothing of value on the North Country Gazette blog that wasn’t authored by others and/or previously published elsewhere. Despite this fact, Bad Cop News and/or an interested third-party will soon negate blogger June Maxam’s censorship efforts and provide free unlimited, cached, unblockable, and completely uncensored offshore access to all North Country Gazette blog content.
June Maxam Continues To Make Friends On The Internet (Not!)
Found elsewhere: “[June Maxam] appears to live in her own little wonderland where threats and abuse of others is a major past time because the world of normal people will not conform to her set of laws that she wishes to impose on them.”
And: “The site [North Country Gazette] that had the original stories is very strange. I don’t know whether to classify it as unprofessional or what. I also saw that the original article had no mention whatsoever of the word nationwide. But now it does. The author of the article at ‘North Country Gazette’ [June Maxam] is apparently trying to pull something over on someone. The original has been edited and updated, yet the timestamp on the article has not changed! Very fishy. I guess someone’s ego can’t take responsibility for their own errors and they must reinforce their own self-image of infallibility”
“On top of that the site [North Country Gazette] is just strange. There seems to be no way to publicly comment on anything the site puts out. Everything appears to be behind the scenes without any accountability. And on top of it the place is plastered with copyright warnings that are ridiculous. They want you to tag their articles to social websites, but nothing can be reproduced anywhere without written permission. Yet the very restrictions stated are broken even by Google.”
And: “For one [June Maxam] who sends threats to everyone who disagrees with her. I send an e-mail to June Maxam basically saying that I find her style of “reporting” to be self indulgent, harmful and misleading, and that I would personally research her and her actions as a “journalist” and do some investigative reporting of my own to any and all that would listen in the hopes of keeping innocent sheeple from taking anything she writes as truth without first researching for themselves. I said that in my opinion, she’s a hack, etc. etc.”
“What did she [June Maxam] do? sent a complaint to my e-mail server saying that I had spammed her. I swear to god, I never once tried to sell her a thing. I just informed her without a single obsene word that I am aware of just how full of shit she is, and I was going to let anyone who would listen know, so as to avoid the embarrassment of taking her seriously. And she tattled. Told Yahoo lies about my e-mail. Probably edited it and sent an altered copy. I laughed my ass off. What a freaking narcisist! wow.”
Found elsewhere: “”I’ve had several conversations lately about sociopaths and the law, and [June Maxam] is almost a text book example of that kind of behavior, IMHO. I have no desire to squelch her voice, after all free speech is free speech, but the larger issue of what is news, and the responsibilities of the fifth estate are a huge issue. I would have trouble taking anything her organization publishes seriously.”"
Read MoreLorain Ohio Makes Up New Rule To Suspend Health Insurance For Suspended Police Officers After One Complains About Not Receiving Other Benefits
May 31st, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO — Suspended Lorain police Officer Jesus Sanchez’s complaint that he wasn’t receiving his uniform allowance this year has cost him and another suspended officer their health insurance for the next month.
After Sanchez made his request for the $870 per year clothing allowance, Lorain Safety Director Phil
Dore said he asked the city’s Law Department to review whether the city had to pay out the cash.
The legal opinion said the city not only didn’t have to pick up Sanchez’s clothing bill while he was suspended without pay, it also wasn’t obligated to pay for insurance and other benefits, Dore said Friday.
Dore said Sanchez and Officer Stanley Marrero, who also is suspended without pay through the end of June, aren’t the only ones who will have to deal with the new rule, which goes into effect Sunday.
Read MoreFormer Dayton Ohio Police Officer John Calvin Crenshaw Arrested, Charged In Connection With Drug Ring
May 31st, 2008
DAYTON, OHIO — Brookville police said they arrested 11 people Thursday, including a former Dayton police officer, in connection with an alleged drug ring.
According to Brookville Police Chief Ed Preston, the arrests came after a nine week investigation which resulted in a search warrant being served at 616 Rona Parkway.
Officers said they began investigating after getting several complaints of drug activity inside the Rona Parkway apartment.
“We were able to get (an officer) in undercover and make some controlled buys,” Preston said.
Preston said one of the suspects, John Calvin Crenshaw, 46, admitted to spending time as a Dayton police officer.
“By his own admission, he’s a former Dayton police officer,” Preston said. “The guy apparently went the other direction, on the wrong side of the law, so we’re very happy to put him where he belongs, which is behind bars.”
Read MoreMiami County Ohio Judges Elizabeth Gutmann And Mel Kemmer To Meet With State Supreme Court Judge Over Squabble - Judge Wearing Gun After Being Threatened By Former Bailiff Scott Niesley
May 31st, 2008
MIAMI COUNTY, OHIO — Two judges in Miami County Municipal Court, at odds over a bailiff, will meet soon with the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court to talk about their differences.
Chief Justice Thomas Moyer asked Judges Elizabeth Gutmann and Mel Kemmer “to join him for a conversation about the issues that have come up about the court in Miami County.”
The issues has Kemmer wearing a shoulder holster and loaded gun under his judicial robe.
In late January long time municipal court bailiff Scott Niesley reportedly made a verbal threat toward Kemmer and several other court employees. The threats were made over the telephone to another bailiff less than an hour after Niesley walked off the job.
Months later, and after serving a two-week suspension without pay, the bailiff was found fit to return to work in an evaluation. The judges were not in agreement.
Read MoreLorain Ohio Police Department’s Ticking Time Bomb, Police Officer And FOP President Corey Earl, Has A Stroke At Kenny Chesney Concert
May 29th, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO - Lorain Fraternal Order of Police President Corey Earl was hospitalized Saturday afternoon after an apparent stroke, according to Lorain police Chief Cel Rivera.
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Earl, a 20-year veteran officer, was in Cleveland to attend the Kenny Chesney concert when he suddenly collapsed outside the stadium, Rivera said. He never made it to the concert.
Luckily, several people were around and called for an ambulance, Rivera said. Earl was taken to Lakewood Hospital and later admitted to the Neuro Integrated Intensive Care Unit.
Patient information at Lakewood Hospital would not disclose Earl’s condition, but said he was in fact in the NICU.
Rivera said he was notified Saturday about the incident and has visited him a couple times. He was not, however, able to speak with him. Rivera would not elaborate on his condition only to say “he’s going to be out for awhile.”
“We haven’t gotten any confirmation yet that it was a stroke,” he said, but added that initial reports point to that.
Earl’s family did not wish to make any statement.
“His fellow officers are real concerned,” Rivera said. “Several have already went to visit him. We are all hoping and praying for the best.”
Read MoreLorain Ohio Police Chief Cel Rivera Disciplines Dispatcher For Being Sick, Another For Delay In Sending Officer To Emergency
May 28th, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO - Two Lorain police dispatchers were disciplined about a month ago, Chief Cel Rivera confirmed Tuesday.
One of the dispatchers allegedly waited too long to dispatch a squad car to an emergency, Rivera said. The issue came to his attention by an off-duty police officer who eventually responded to the scene of the complaint, he said.
The other dispatcher was written up for calling off sick without having enough sick time, he said.
Both employees were suspended for one day. No additional information was available Tuesday night. Appeared Here
Councilman Dennis Flores, Vocal Supporter Of Lorain Ohio Police Chief Cel Rivera, Arrested For Soliciting A Whore And Drunk Driving
May 25th, 2008
LORAIN, OHIO A drunken city councilman on the prowl was caught Friday night in a prostitution sting, Lorain police said.
Dennis Flores, D-2nd Ward, was charged with solicitation and DUI at 11:27 p.m., after driving up to a decoy prostitute near the corner of Reid Avenue and 18th Street; he was charged by Lorain and Elyria police, a report said.
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The 54-year-old councilman, who defeated Brian Hazelett in November 2007 to win his seat, is chairman of the city’s Finance and Claims Committee and vice-chair of the Police and Fire Committee.
Police said he had condoms in his car and alcohol on his breath. Flores’ car was towed, and he was taken to the city jail.
“He is so sorry for what he did. He’s promised to seek help,” Council President Anne Molnar said. “He said he knows he did wrong.”