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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

[OH] Detective Earl's name will stay in the news until WHAT?

...Lorain police Officer Corey Earl is facing misdemeanor criminal charges for allegedly making harassing phone calls to his ex-wife... Laura Earl has complained to police about her ex-husband several times in the past...

Previous entries:
Corey Earl again faces harassment accusations
Chronicle-Telegram, OH
Brad Dicken
Jan 5, 2009
AMHERST — Lorain police Officer Corey Earl is facing misdemeanor criminal charges for allegedly making harassing phone calls to his ex-wife. Amherst police Lt. Joe Kucirek declined to provide specifics on the allegations against Earl but said the 47-year-old officer turned himself in at the police station on Sunday afternoon and was released after being served with two counts of telephone harassment. Earl, the former president of the Lorain police union, is on extended medical leave after suffering a series of strokes last summer... Earl was investigated for alleged harassing text messages he had sent and phone calls he had made to his on-again-off-again girlfriend late last year by Lorain police, but the investigation didn’t result in charges. Laura Earl has complained to police about her ex-husband several times in the past, including for violating a temporary protection order that was put in place after he reportedly threatened to kill himself with a gun in their home, according to police. That charge was thrown out after the protection order was dropped. Earl also has had a string of disciplinary problems within the department in recent years, including reportedly threatening to beat a county corrections officer with a baseball bat, writing a joke traffic ticket and pulling over the ex-husband of a woman he was dating... [Read the full article here - and I have a saved copy if it becomes unavailable]

WHO'S IN CHARGE?
lorain police chief cel rivera
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Friday, March 13, 2009

[OH] Ex-police union president Det. Corey Earl blah, blah, blah - gets PLEA DEAL

EX-LORAIN COP EARL FINED IN HARASSMENT CASE
Brad Dicken | The Chronicle-Telegram
3/13/2009
[Excerpts] Former Lorain police Officer Corey Earl pleaded no contest Thursday to a misdemeanor charge of telephone harassment for a series of harassing phone calls he made to his ex-wife. Earl, 47, avoided jail time but was ordered to pay $250 in fines and will be monitored by Oberlin Municipal Court officials for three years. He also was ordered not to have any contact with his ex-wife, Laura Earl. Daniel Wightman, Earl’s attorney, said his client took the plea deal — in which an additional telephone harassment charge filed by Amherst police was dropped — in order to put the case behind him and move on with his life. Lorain Safety Director Phil Dore said Earl, who suffered a series of strokes last summer, took a disability retirement in February. “He’s turned the page and he’s looking to go into some other things,” Wightman said. Wightman said Earl has made peace with the fact that he is no longer a police officer and wants to improve his relationship with his children. He said the charges stemmed from a disagreement between Earl and his ex-wife about visitation over the Christmas holidays, when Earl left a series of messages on his wife’s voicemail complaining about the situation. “He got a little carried away,” Wightman said. This isn’t the first time Earl’s ex-wife has brought legal action against him... Earl, the former president of the Lorain police union, also had problems with his on-again off-again girlfriend late last year when he allegedly harassed her with voicemails and text messages. Police investigated, but he wasn’t charged. Earl also had a series of disciplinary problems... including threatening to beat a county corrections officer with a baseball bat, pulling over the ex-husband of a woman he was dating and writing a joke traffic ticket... [Full article here]

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Friday, September 18, 2009

[OH] MAYBE (?) Ex-Detective Corey Earl violated a court order? Maybe he didn't?

WHAT DOES THE COURT ORDER SAY HE CAN AND CAN'T DO?

HOW LONG WILL THIS CONTINUE? HE'S BEEN AT IT FOR OVER TWO YEARS.

See links to previous Corey Earl posts below the article.

ARREST WARRANT ISSUED FOR FORMER POLICE OFFICER COREY EARL
Chronicle-Telegram Staff
September 18, 2009

OBERLIN — An arrest warrant has been issued for former Lorain police Officer Corey Earl for allegedly violating the conditions of his probation for a telephone harassment charge he pleaded no contest to in March.

Earl, 47, had contact with the victim in the case, his ex-wife, Laura Astorino, despite a court order barring him from doing so, according to court records. The original charge against Earl stemmed from unwanted calls he made to Astorino.

Mike Duff, one of Earl’s attorneys, said the complaint came from a call Earl placed to Astorino to discuss getting a car for their teenage son.

Dan Wightman, Earl’s other attorney, said the no-contact order had some leeway to allow Earl to contract Astorino about their children because he has visitation rights.

But he also said that Oberlin Municipal Court Judge Thomas Januzzi has a reputation for enforcing his probation orders.

If Earl is found to have violated probation, he could face the full sentence that Januzzi imposed in March. The judge had suspended a sentence of six months in jail and $250 of a $500 fine in the case.

Earl, who took disability retirement earlier this year because of a series of strokes he suffered last year, is also late paying off his fine, according to court records.

This isn’t the first time Earl has had difficulty following a court order barring him from contact with a woman he has been romantically linked. He was given a suspended $250 fine in July for violating a civil stalking protection order filed against him by his ex-girlfriend, Nadine Glass.

Duff said Earl plans to turn himself in at the Lorain County Jail today.

http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2009/09/18/arrest-warrant-issued-for-former-police-officer-corey-earl/

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

[OH] "RETIRED" Detective Earl can't have guns, AGAIN

...Nadine Glass obtained the protection order at a hearing Friday during which she presented a two-page document listing [Ex-Lorain Detective & Police Union President Corey] Earl’s alleged harassment of her dating back to May. Under the terms of the order, Earl must stay 500 feet away from Glass, and he isn’t permitted to possess a firearm...

I had to delete what I wanted to say here. I'll just post this.

Previous entries:
EX-COP'S EX-GIRLFRIEND ASKS FOR PROTECTION
Chronicle-Telegram - Brad Dicken
June 30, 2009

ELYRIA - The ex-girlfriend of former Lorain police officer Corey Earl has obtained a civil stalking protection order against him.

Nadine Glass obtained the protection order at a hearing Friday during which she presented a two-page document listing Earl’s alleged harassment of her dating back to May.

Under the terms of the order, Earl must stay 500 feet away from Glass, and he isn’t permitted to possess a firearm.

Glass wrote that Earl, 47, routinely drives by her home, regularly sends her text messages ranging from angry to threatening to apologetic to delusional, calls her repeatedly and is stalking her and her children.

She said they haven’t dated in more than a year.

Glass accused Earl, who took disability retirement earlier this year after suffering a series of strokes last summer, of leaving a rose on the windshield of her car while it was parked in her garage on Mother’s Day.

He also knocked on her door two weeks later and asked to be let inside, leaving only because she threatened to call police, according to Glass. She said after Earl left, he went to her ex-husband’s home and began crying.

Glass also said Earl began calling her new boyfriend’s work and leaving him messages saying he needed to warn him about her.

Glass also said Earl followed her on June 10 and began honking his horn at her.

Earl also allegedly left clothing, including new underwear that did not belong to her, on her driveway while she was away on vacation. Her ex-husband found the underwear when he and her children went to her house to feed her dogs.

Glass said in the court documents that she had asked Earl’s friends, including attorney Mike Duff, to get him to stop harassing her.

Duff called Glass’s allegations “not truthful.”

“He has not been harassing her and has not been bothering her,” he said.

This isn’t the first time Glass has made a complaint against Earl. Late last year, she filed a complaint with Lorain police accusing him of leaving her unwanted voicemails and text messages. Earl wasn’t charged in that case, but he did plead no contest to telephone harassment in March to making harassing phone calls to his ex-wife, Laura Earl.

Earl avoided jail time and was ordered to pay $250 in fines and Oberlin Municipal Court officials plan to monitor his behavior for the next three years.

Earl’s ex-wife obtained a protection order in the summer of 2007 after he reportedly threatened to kill himself in the couple’s Amherst home.

Charges he had violated that protection order were later dropped.

A county sheriff’s corrections officer also sought - and later dropped - a protection order against Earl after Earl allegedly told three sheriff’s captains that he was going to beat the corrections officer with a baseball bat.

Earl had a string of disciplinary problems during his final years with the Lorain Police Department, including writing a joke traffic ticket and pulling over his ex-girlfriend’s ex-husband.

A full hearing on the latest protection order, which also bars Earl from coming near Glass’s children, is set for Thursday.

Contact Brad Dicken at 329-7147 or bdicken@chroniclet.com.

http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2009/06/30/ex-cop%E2%80%99s-ex-girlfriend-asks-for-protection/
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

[OH] How many domestic allegedly's can Detective Corey Earl get and still be a cop?

Police Officer Corey Earl is under investigation again, this time for allegedly sending his on-again-off-again girlfriend harassing text messages...

Previous entries:
  • [OH] There's hate in that suicide threat Laura - Suicidal, sadistic, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 president, ex-SWAT, ex-Strike Team member, once-U.S. Marshal, current Lorain Police Detective Corey Earl is on paid "medical" leave and is not supposed to carry a gun after his wife Laura filed for a protection order.
  • [OH] Dangerous Detective Earl - Protection order lifted & GPS off his ankle? - Police Chief Cel Rivera said "My biggest concern is that he gets the help he needs so that he can be OK and be a part of this police department"- as long as he can come up with a doctor's note.
  • [OH] Chief's goal for domestic-terror Detective Earl - She told police he was armed with a handgun and threatened to kill himself [while holing her up in the bathroom and insisting that she WATCH HIM DO IT...
  • [OH] Detective Earl's wife now says she lied? (I'm not buying it.) - ...it appears that Laura Earl has chosen to live in the eye of the storm, hoping - with no police protection - that it may be the safest place to try to survive...
  • [OH] The list circulating on Lorain Police Detective Corey Earl - ..."I've been married to Corey for 23 years. He's aggressive, controlling, extremely jealous. He has rage. He has been abusive... Corey has said many, many times to me that nobody will ever have me except him"...
  • [OH] Detective Earl - no charge or order seems to stick - ...A civil stalking protection order filed against Lorain police Officer Corey Earl has been dropped... In his initial complaint, Pruitt wrote that Earl had made threats against him to his captain and others, including a police officer. Pruitt wrote that Earl had told the captain that “he should take a baseball bat to me and end his problem”...
  • [OH] Regardless of everything, cop Earl returns to his job - Lorain patrolman Corey Earl is being returned to full active duty status, about two weeks after being placed on paid leave after being accused of making threats against a county corrections officer...
  • [OH] Passive Chief Rivera says demoted Detective Earl could have court credibility problems? - ...[Lorain Police Chief Cel] Rivera said [former police union president, demoted detective, jailbird, psychiatric inpatient, multiply-suspended, sometimes-suicidal, burglarizing, repeatedly threatening, timebomb Lorain Police Officer Corey] Earl's recent problems, both legally and with adhering to departmental policy, could create problems for him, especially when he has to take the stand in a criminal case and defense attorneys bring them up...
  • [OH] STILL-PRESIDENT of the FOP - Det. Earl reportedly collapses - ..."We haven't gotten any confirmation yet that it was a stroke," [Lorain Police Chief Cel] Rivera said, adding that initial reports point to a stroke... Rivera said he's not even sure what caused Earl to collapse. Earl's medical problem comes on the heels of professional and personal issues...
Girlfriend complains Corey Earl threatened her in text messages
The Chronicle-Telegram
Brad Dicken bdicken@chroniclet.com
9/27/2008
LORAIN - Police Officer Corey Earl is under investigation again, this time for allegedly sending his on-again-off-again girlfriend harassing text messages. Lorain police Lt. Jim Rohner said the woman filed a complaint against Earl - who has been off the job since he had a stroke while walking to a Kenny Chesney concert in Cleveland in May - on Tuesday. "I don't know what the text messages say, except that they're unwanted," Rohner said. The messages could constitute telephone harassment, Rohner said, but the investigation is still ongoing. Complicating the matter, he said, is that the woman also has placed calls to Earl. The woman also complained that Earl, 46, had somehow obtained her new phone number, even though she hadn't given it to him, Rohner said. Earl, who was president of the police union before his stroke, has had several disciplinary problems in recent years, including being charged with violating a protection order taken out by his now ex-wife after he allegedly threatened to kill himself with a gun in their home. That charge was later thrown out and the protection order dropped. Also, a Lorain County Jail corrections officer requested a protection order against Earl, but that request later was dropped, too. Earl was reprimanded in that incident for reportedly telling three sheriff's captains that he might deal with the corrections officer, Thomas Pruitt, with a baseball bat. He was also punished for entering a bar without an official reason while on duty. Earl also has been in trouble for leaving a joke traffic ticket and pulling over the ex-husband of a woman he was dating. Rohner said Earl is still recovering from his stroke and doesn't know when, or if, Earl will return to the force. Contact Brad Dicken at 329-7147 or bdicken@chroniclet.com.
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Monday, November 3, 2008

[OH] Stalking order filed against Lorain Police Officer Tabitha Angello

...[Lorain City Councilwoman Ann] Molnar said she and Natalie Zapolski have complained to Lorain police Chief Cel Rivera several times in the past two years about Angello’s behavior, but she hasn’t stopped... Mackintosh’s order does not prohibit Angello from carrying a firearm...

Lorain has a huge chief problem type lorain + police into the search box on this blog to see.

WOMAN FILES STALKING ORDER AGAINST LORAIN POLICE OFFICER
Morning Journal
By Jeff Green jgreen@MorningJournal.com
November 1, 2008
ELYRIA - A Lorain woman filed a stalking order against Lorain police officer Tabitha Angello yesterday for alleged phone harassment that has lasted two years. The victim said Angello had been warned by the Lorain Police Department at least twice to avoid contact, according to the order. The victim filed criminal charges on Sunday with Lorain police, after which the victim's spouse, who lives with Angello, placed a phone call in which Angello could be heard "screaming, cursing and yelling telling me to watch myself," the order said. The stalking order was granted yesterday by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge and is scheduled for a hearing on Nov. 10. It orders Angello not to have any verbal or physical contact with the victim. Lorain Law Director Mark Provenza declined to release a police investigation into the matter. Angello and police Chief Cel Rivera could not be reached for comment. [LINK]

MAGISTRATE GRANTS PROTECTION ORDER AGAINST LORAIN POLICEWOMAN
Chronicle-Telegram, OH
Brad Dicken
Oct 31, 2008
ELYRIA — A county magistrate on Friday granted a Lorain woman’s request for a civil stalking protection order against a Lorain police officer. According to Magistrate Kristen Mackintosh’s order, Officer Tabitha Angello, 31, must stay at least 500 feet away from Natalie Zapolski and cannot have any contact with her. In her request for the protection order, Zapolski said that Angello has been harassing her by phone for two years. Despite complaints to Lorain police, who reportedly told Angello not to have any contact with Zapolski, the harassing calls have continued, she wrote. Zapolski wrote that despite her latest complaint to Lorain police late last month, Angello has continued to harass her. She pointed to a phone call she received from her estranged husband, Kenneth Zapolski, on Tuesday as proof of the harassment. “She was screaming, cursing and yelling, telling me to watch myself,” Natalie Zapolski wrote. Kenneth Zapolski, who also is a Lorain police officer, lives with Angello, according to Natalie Zapolski, who filed for divorce from her husband in June. Mackintosh’s order does not prohibit Angello from carrying a firearm, and Lorain police Lt. Jim Rohner said Angello remains on active duty. Police are investigating a complaint filed by Natalie Zapolski, but Rohner declined to say who was being investigated. “There’s a telephone harassment complaint by Natalie Zapolski,” he said. “The investigation will hopefully determine if there was telephone harassment and who it was against.” Lorain City Councilwoman Ann Molnar, D-at large, accompanied Natalie Zapolski to Friday’s hearing on the protection order. Molnar said she and Natalie Zapolski have complained to Lorain police Chief Cel Rivera several times in the past two years about Angello’s behavior, but she hasn’t stopped. The calls last month simply proved too much for Natalie Zapolski, Molnar said. “She’s scared,” she said. Rivera did not return a call seeking comment, and Natalie Zalpolski declined to comment after Friday’s hearing. A full hearing in which Angello will be allowed to present her side of the story will take place later this month. Staff Writer Stephen Szucs contributed to this story. Contact Brad Dicken at 329-7147 or bdicken@chroniclet.com. [Link]
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

[OH] Passive Chief Rivera says demoted Detective Earl could have court credibility problems?

THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE CHIEF REALLY - NOT COREY EARL. LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONALISM START AT THE TOP.

...[Lorain Police Chief Cel] Rivera said [former police union president, demoted detective, jailbird, psychiatric inpatient, multiply-suspended, sometimes-suicidal, burglarizing, repeatedly threatening, timebomb Lorain Police Officer Corey] Earl's recent problems, both legally and with adhering to departmental policy, could create problems for him, especially when he has to take the stand in a criminal case and defense attorneys bring them up...

Previous entries:
COREY EARL TO THREE POLICE CAPTAINS:
"WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE? AM I GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A BASEBALL BAT TO HIM?"

Lorain police officer Corey Earl suspended again
Morning Journal Writer
JENNIFER BRACKEN
03/28/2008
Lorain police officer Corey Earl will receive an unpaid, three day suspension for acting inappropriately by entering a tavern while on duty, according to Lorain police Chief Cel Rivera. The discipline stems from a Jan. 30 incident when Earl went to Scorcher's Casual Eatery and Brewhouse on Broadway to wish his girlfriend a happy birthday. As he entered the bar, Earl found his girlfriend talking to Tom Pruitt, a Lorain County corrections officer who had dated Earl's ex-wife, before the Earls' divorce was final... Pruitt filed a complaint with the Lorain Police Department saying Earl made a threat directed at him, through a third party... Earl went to the Lorain County Sheriff's Office to file a complaint against Pruitt, saying Pruitt was going out of his way to provoke him... Earl spoke to three captains and became frustrated when he felt nothing was going to be done... Earl said, "What's it going to take? Am I going to have to take a baseball bat to him?" The statements were unprofessional, Rivera said... Earl was placed on administrative leave Feb. 26 for the threat. He was also served with a temporary protection order to stay away from Pruitt, which has been dropped. He returned to active duty March 12... Earl was disciplined in early January after he admitted to making inappropriate comments to his girlfriend's ex-husband during a traffic stop... He was also reprimanded for conducting private business while on duty, using indecent, profane or harsh language in the performance of official duties and engaging in personal conduct or act which, if brought to the public, could result in justified unfavorable criticism of that officer or department, according to the investigation. [Full article here]

Bar incident nets Lorain cop three-day suspension
The Chronicle-Telegram
Brad Dicken
3/28/2008
...Earl broke the rules when he entered Scorchers bar on Jan. 30... Department rules prohibit bar officers from entering bars without an official reason while on duty, Rivera said... Earl asked the captains, "What's it going to take? Am I going to have to take a baseball bat to him?"... That constituted conduct unbecoming of an officer, Rivera said, but wasn't a criminal threat because Pruitt - who asked for and later dropped a civil stalking protection order against Earl - wasn't present when the comment was made... Several other allegations against Earl, including that he had accessed Pruitt's personal information using confidential law enforcement computer systems, weren't proven, Rivera said... Another allegation by Pruitt - that Earl had made a threat against him to a Sheffield police officer - also didn't hold up because the Sheffield officer denied it happened, Rivera said. Earl was placed on leave earlier this year while Pruitt's stalking order was working its way through the legal system, but he returned to road patrol duties after it was dropped. Earl has had other legal problems. He was the subject of a protection order filed by his now ex-wife, Laura Earl, last year after he allegedly threatened to kill himself in their Amherst home. He later was charged with violating the protection order, a charge that was dropped by prosecutors who said they doubted Laura Earl's allegations... Rivera said Earl's recent problems, both legally and with adhering to departmental policy, could create problems for him, especially when he has to take the stand in a criminal case and defense attorneys bring them up... [Full article here]
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Friday, March 7, 2008

[OH] Detective Earl - no charge or order seems to stick

LAST WEEK: ...Police Officer Corey Earl has been suspended again. Earl was placed on paid leave Tuesday following an incident at Scorchers bar on Broadway in Lorain in which Earl walked in while on-duty sometime last week and made a threat... Earl allegedly made another threat directed toward Pruitt while making a complaint about him to the Lorain County Sheriff's Office... The bad blood between the two started last year, Rivera said, and was related to Earl's divorce with his now ex-wife...
TODAY: A civil stalking protection order filed against Lorain police Officer Corey Earl has been dropped... In his initial complaint, Pruitt wrote that Earl had made threats against him to his captain and others, including a police officer. Pruitt wrote that Earl had told the captain that “he should take a baseball bat to me and end his problem”...

Previous entries:
Excerpts from 3 articles - 2 from last week, 1 from today:

Lorain police officer suspended again
The Chronicle-Telegram Staff
3/1/2008
Police Officer Corey Earl has been suspended again. Earl was placed on paid leave Tuesday following an incident at Scorchers bar on Broadway in Lorain in which Earl walked in while on-duty sometime last week and made a threat — via a third party — that he would harm Thomas Pruitt, a corrections officer at the county jail... [Police Chief Cel] Rivera said about two days later, Earl went to the Sheriff’s Office to file a complaint about Pruitt, and again, he threatened to harm him via a third party... Rivera said the internal investigation could be concluded by next week. On Monday, Pruitt obtained a civil stalking protection order against Earl, telling a captain at the Sheriff’s Office in his request for protection that Earl said, “he should take a baseball bat to me and end his problem,” according to the order. Earl also told two other people, including a Sheffield police officer, that he would harm him, Pruitt’s complaint continued. After the protection order was issued, Earl was placed on leave, and his firearm was confiscated, Rivera said. Sheriff’s officials declined to comment, and the investigation has been forwarded to the Elyria City Prosecutor’s Office, Assistant County Prosecutor Gerald Innes said... This isn’t the first time a protection order has been granted against Earl. Last year, his then-wife, Laura Earl, sought an order after her husband reportedly entered her bedroom with a gun and threatened to kill himself. Corey Earl was later charged with violating the civil protection order by having contact with Laura Earl. He was ordered to receive a psychiatric evaluation by Oberlin Municipal Court Judge Thomas Januzzi. That charge was dropped in January because Amherst prosecutors doubted Laura Earl’s version of events. Laura Earl dropped the protection order in September...

Lorain cop, Corey Earl, put on paid leave from department
Morning Journal
MATT SUMAN
03/01/2008
... Earl allegedly made another threat directed toward Pruitt while making a complaint about him to the Lorain County Sheriff's Office, Rivera said. The bad blood between the two started last year, Rivera said, and was related to Earl's divorce with his now ex-wife... In December, the Lorain Police Department issued an administrative order for Earl to stay away from Pruitt... Earl was disciplined in early January after admitting to making inappropriate comments to his girlfriend's ex-husband during a traffic stop, according to an internal police investigation report. He was issued a reprimand for conducting private business while on duty, using indecent, profane or harsh language in the performance of official duties, and engaging in personal conduct or act which, if brought to the public, could result in justified unfavorable criticism of that officer or department... In January, the Amherst Law Director's office dismissed a charge in Oberlin Municipal Court that Earl violated a protection order his the wife while divorce proceedings were ongoing. Amherst police were called to the Earl's home on July 6 and Aug. 13 for domestic disputes... Earl was placed on administrative leave on Aug. 20, 2007, for medical reasons related to personal issues. He returned to work on Oct. 1 on restrictive duty and was reinstated to patrol operations on Nov. 9

Restraining order dropped against Lorain cop
Brad Dicken | The Chronicle-Telegram
March 7, 2008
A civil stalking protection order filed against Lorain police Officer Corey Earl has been dropped. On Thursday, Thomas Pruitt, a corrections officer at the county jail, dropped the request for the order that he filed last week without explanation... In his initial complaint, Pruitt wrote that Earl had made threats against him to his captain and others, including a police officer. Pruitt wrote that Earl had told the captain that “he should take a baseball bat to me and end his problem.” Earl was suspended last week after the protection order was granted, although a full hearing on the matter was scheduled for later this month to allow him to tell his side of the story. That hearing was canceled after Pruitt dropped his complaint. Lorain police Chief Cel Rivera has said that the alleged threats, which are being investigated internally by the department, were related to Earl’s marital problems... After the protection order was issued, Earl was suspended and his firearm confiscated... Before the divorce was final, Laura Earl obtained a domestic violence protection order against her then-husband after he allegedly threatened to kill himself in front of her... Ultimately, the charge was dismissed in January because prosecutors doubted the truth of Laura Earl’s allegations. Corey Earl was reprimanded late last year for using foul language and discussing his ex-wife when he pulled over the ex-husband of his girlfriend in November... Earl was told to stay away from the man and the woman he was with at the time...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

[OH] Ex-Lorain Officer Montelon files suit against the Police Department

A former fired Lorain Police Officer has filed a federal suit against the Lorain Police Department claiming they tried to silence him... Joe Montelon says his civil rights were violated and the harassment is in retaliation for him being the source that led to the Department of Justice investigation of police brutality. No criminal charges were ever filed against Montelon...


AFFIDAVIT TO SEARCH OFFICER'S WICKLIFFE HOME UNSEALED
The News-Herald, Journal Register News
By Kelly Metz
Published: Friday, August 06, 2010
[Excerpts] Unsealed Thursday, the affidavit that initiated a 2008 search of former Lorain police officer Joseph Montelon's home in Wickliffe said that investigators previously dug into Montelon's trash and found items suggesting Montelon was the person who had mailed numerous "threatening anonymous letters" about Lorain police Chief Cel Rivera to public officials in Lorain County... "An anonymous tip is never a basis for a search warrant," [Montelon's attorney, Terry] Gilbert said. Investigators dug into Montelon's trash in 2008 on July 3, July 17 and Aug. 28, the affidavit said. They found news articles, envelopes addressed to prior recipients of the letters, a Lorain police roster... Investigators also found an anonymous letter to a retired Lorain police chief stating, "Four officers have died at Mr. Rivera's hand," citing police officers who had committed suicide allegedly because of Rivera... Gilbert said no matter what was stated in the affidavit or found in the search "it doesn't change our position that the search was illegal"... [Full article here]

TRASH SEARCH, LETTER ‘THREATS’ BEHIND ’08 RAID ON EX-COP’S HOME
Filed by Brad Dicken
Chronicle-Telegram
August 6th, 2010
[Excerpts] When Lorain police raided the Wick­liffe home of former Lorain police officer Joseph Montelon nearly two years ago, they not only were trying to determine if he was the author of letters aimed at Lorain police officers, but also the identity of Mon­telon’s source of internal police information, according to the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant... Montelon has not been charged with a crime, but court documents filed by Ohio Attor­ney General Richard Cordray’s office, which took over the case as special prosecutors in April, said felony charges are possible... Montelon has declined to say whether he was the author of the letters, which often blasted Police Chief Cel Rivera, comparing him to the debauched Roman emperor Caligula... The letters were sent to public officials, police and media for years but were never signed... [Lorain City Councilwoman Anne] Molnar said she’s read all of the letters but never saw any­thing threatening in any of them... [Full article here]

WICKLIFFE MAN FILES SUIT FOR RAID
News-Herald staff
August 28, 2010
[Excerpts] The August 2008 search of former Lorain police officer Joseph Montelon's Wickliffe home has resulted in a lawsuit that claims the search and seizure of Montelon's property were illegal... According the lawsuit, the affidavit "contained false statements made knowingly, intentionally, or with a reckless disregard for the truth." It also said Montelon's property has been illegally held for two years... The city of Lorain, Police Chief Cel Rivera, Capt. Richard Resendez and Detective A.J. Mathewson are named as defendants... [Full article here]

MONTELON SUES CITY, OFFICIALS DUE TO SEARCH
Morning Journal
By KELLY METZ kmetz@MorningJournal.com
August 28, 2010
[Excerpts] ...“The whole point of the lawsuit is to stop these renegade cops in Lorain from trampling on people’s rights,” Montelon’s attorney Terry Gilbert said. “What they did in getting that warrant was shameful and goes against every cornerstone of what a free society is all about in order to be critical of government officials. To abuse their authority like that can not be tolerated.” Police have justified the search of Montelon’s home on the threat of charging him with aggravated menacing and menacing by stalking, two charges which do not hold up against his client, Gilbert said. Mathewson did not state the letters caused physical harm, but were only written to emotionally bother Rivera, which does not constitute menacing, according to the lawsuit. “Mathewson did not allege any facts in the affidavit that indicate any crime at all occurred. He misled the law in his affidavit and did not properly allege elements of either offense or conduct that would constitute a crime,” the lawsuit stated... Montelon has been “living under a cloud of uncertainty” regarding the investigation, which started in 2008 and he has yet to be indicted, Gilbert said. Gilbert compared the city and Rivera’s actions to that of Nazi Germany or communist Russia... “You dissent against your government and they go after you,” he added. “And the collaboration between Rivera and Resendez and getting local law enforcement involved to ransack somebody’s house to see if you are the one writing letters, it’s hard to even believe that could happen so blatantly.” Gilbert said he is leaving it up to a jury to determine what damages Montelon should be awarded if they win the suit, but the main goal of the suit in general is stop this kind of action. Lorain Mayor Tony Krasienko said he did not have a chance to look at the suit, but “feels confident the police department did everything correctly.” Lorain Law Director Pat Riley and Rivera could not be reached for comment. “We will review it and deal with it appropriately,” Krasienko said. [Full article here]
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Monday, December 26, 2011

[OH] Lorain Officer Lachner accused of hitting web editor for The Chronicle-Telegram in the head multiple times

The incident report on Lorain police officer William "Bill" Lachner's domestic violence arrest was not publicly available as is the practice, and Lachner was released from jail without seeing a judge - also not the way things are done. The Chronicle-Telegram’s web editor, Rona Proudfoot, called from her locked bathroom for help. She said he had assaulted her, punching her multiple times in the head. She did not sign an arrest affadavit against him and he would not fill out a written statement. The responding police sgt. did sign the arrest warrant. Lachner has been put on desk duty, disarmed, and due to a temporary restraining order, not supposed to go near his web editor girlfriend, Rona Proudfoot.

Updates:

  • 12/28/2011 - At Proudfoot’s request, Judge Mark Mihok lifted a temporary protection order against Lachner. Proudfoot said she was not in fear of him... 
  • 12/29/2011 - Mihok said he was lifting the order based on Proudfoot’s request to do so and because Lachner was reportedly seeking counseling...

LORAIN POLICE OFFICER CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
chronicle.northcoastnow.com
Filed by Evan Goodenow
December 24th, 2011
[Excerpts] ...Police reports are usually left out at the police department for the public for 48 hours after they are released, but the report was not available until it was requested. However, Police Chief Cel Rivera said Saturday there was no attempt to conceal the incident and the department takes domestic violence charges against officers seriously. “These guys are human beings. They have the same frailties as everybody else... There’s consequences to that, and that’s something he’s going to have to deal with if it’s true.” Rivera said Lachner is innocent until proven guilty and has no history of violence, but the department will conduct an internal investigation of Lachner in addition to the criminal investigation... [Full article here]

LORAIN POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
The Morning Journal
Saturday, December 24, 2011
[Excerpts] Lorain Police Officer William Lachner, 44, was arrested for domestic violence early Friday after his girlfriend reported that he had assaulted her during an argument. Lachner allegedly struck 32-year-old Rona Proudfoot of Lorain in the head multiple times, according to the police report. Proudfoot had no visible injuries, police noted. She told police she was not hurt, and she declined to press charges, stating that she just wanted Lachner gone for the night... However, charges were filed on her behalf by police...  Proudfoot stated that Lachner shoved her around the house “and struck her several times in her head with his fist”... While officers were conducting their interview with  Proudfoot, Lachner called her phone and spoke to Sgt. Kenneth Zapolski. He agreed to meet police at the station. Lachner told police the argument was strictly verbal and he left the scene so it would not escalate. In the police report, Sgt. Michael Hendershot states, “William advised me that he did not push or assault  Proudfoot and that there was no physical violence between the two of them.” Lachner declined to fill out a written statement... Officers arrested Lachner at the police station and took him to the city jail. He was released several hours later on $2,500 bond. Proudfoot works as the Web Editor for The Chronicle-Telegram in Elyria. [Full article here]

UPDATE:
POLICE OFFICER PLEADS INNOCENT TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Morning Journal
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
[Excerpts] Lorain police officer William Lachner pleaded innocent to a domestic violence charge during his arraignment yesterday in Lorain Municipal Court... Lorain attorney Michael J. Kinlin entered the plea on Lachner’s behalf. Lachner and [Rona] Proudfoot appeared in court during the arraignment. At Proudfoot’s request, Judge Mark Mihok lifted a temporary protection order against Lachner. Proudfoot said she was not in fear of him... Proudfoot, an editor at the Chronicle Telegram, told police Lachner shoved her around the house and struck her several times in the head. She called police shortly around 2 a.m. after locking herself in the bathroom, according to the report. Lachner told police he did not push or assault her, and there was no physical evidence of violence between them... Lachner’s pretrial is scheduled for Feb. 1 at 10:30 a.m... [Full article here]


UPDATE:
PROTECTION ORDER LIFTED AGAINST LORAIN COP
Chronicle-Telegram
by Steve Fogarty 
December 29th, 2011 
[Excerpts] A temporary protection order was lifted Wednesday against a Lorain police officer accused of assaulting his girlfriend last week. Lorain Municipal Court Judge Mark Mihok agreed to lift the protection order after the alleged victim, Chronicle-Telegram Web Editor Rona Proudfoot, told the judge during a hearing Wednesday that she was no longer afraid of William Lachner... Mihok said he was lifting the order based on Proudfoot’s request to do so and because Lachner was reportedly seeking counseling... Lachner has denied attacking the 32-year-old Proudfoot, who told police he assaulted her inside her vehicle after becoming angry... The argument continued at Proudfoot’s home, where Lachner is accused of punching her several times in the head... Proudfoot also told police there had been previous incidents involving Lachner. Lorain Police Chief Cel Rivera has said the department is conducting its own investigation into Lachner... [Full article here]
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

[OH] Stalking victim of then-Officer Jesus Sanchez, Sara Long, wins lawsuit against the City of Lorain for tolerating it's bad cops

The city of Lorain reached a settlement Friday with a woman who had accused the city of ignoring the sexual misconduct of its police officers, including one who was convicted of stalking her. Sarah Long will receive $175,000 under the agreement...

Previous posts:
LAWSUIT SETTLED FOR $175,000: LORAIN MUST PAY WOMAN FOR POLICE OFFICER’S SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
The Morning Journal
By Kelly Metz
Saturday, January 16, 2010
[Excerpts] The lawsuit filed by Lorain resident Sara Long accusing the city of ignoring sexual misconduct among its officers was settled for $175,000 in a Cleveland federal court yesterday, according to Long's attorney, Michael Duff. U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster ordered the lawsuit be moved forward in mid-December when he wrote in the opinion that because there are more than 10 cases involving sexual misconduct among the city of Lorain's police officers, a jury could determine the city has been "indifferent" toward sexual acts among residents and police officers. Duff said the judge ordered the city of Lorain to pay $75,000 out of the city coffers, and $100,000 will be paid by the city's liability insurance. He added he and Long are pleased to have the suit behind them. "(Sara) is happy that the matter is concluded, and it proved our point that the city was at fault," Duff said. "It showed what we intended it would show all along, and that's a good thing"... Long filed the complaint against Lorain police officer Jesus Sanchez on Sept. 4, 2002, after Sanchez kept pulling her over and touched her inappropriately several times. A predisciplinary hearing took place shortly after and Capt. Robert Davey, "found Sanchez guilty of all charges," Polster wrote in his decision. Long filed the lawsuit in 2005 with five complaints against Sanchez and three against the city, stating the city failed to properly supervise the officer, among other complaints. Sanchez was found guilty in 2008 by the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas on one count of menacing by stalking, but not guilty on the other, Polster wrote... Sanchez served 60 days in jail, was placed on probation for two years and resigned from the police department... [Full article here]

LORAIN SETTLES LAWSUIT AGAINST POLICE FOR $175,000
Chronicle-Telegram
Filed by Brad Dicken
January 16th, 2010 in Top Stories.
[Excerpts] The city of Lorain reached a settlement Friday with a woman who had accused the city of ignoring the sexual misconduct of its police officers, including one who was convicted of stalking her. Sarah Long will receive $175,000 under the agreement, her attorney, Mike Duff, said... Duff said although the city didn’t formally apologize to Long for what happened to her, the money she’ll receive speaks for itself. “They apologized 175,000 times,” he said. Long sued the city in 2005, claiming that then-Officer Jesus Sanchez stalked her in 2001 and 2002 and that the city and police leaders ignored not only what Sanchez was doing, but also the sexual misconduct of other officers. Sanchez, who is now retired, was convicted in 2008 of stalking Long and spent 60 days in the Lorain County Jail. Sanchez settled Long’s claims against him years ago in exchange for an affidavit that he filed in the case detailing the alleged sexual antics of various police officers... [U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron] Polster listed numerous incidents detailed during the deposition of Police Chief Cel Rivera that the judge said could lead a jury to conclude that Sanchez thought he could get away with stalking Long because other officers, who accounted for about 10 percent of the department, weren’t severely punished for their actions over the years... The city also was in the middle of a lawsuit against its insurance carrier, United National Insurance Co., contending that the company was refusing to cover the costs of the city’s legal defense in the Long lawsuit and wouldn’t pay a claim if the city lost at trial. That lawsuit also ended Friday as part of the settlement, Duff said... Duff said the settlement is fair. “We’re happy it’s over and I think they paid a fair price for the policy they had in effect and the behavior they tolerated,” Duff said. Long was among those interviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice during a visit to the city in August as part of an ongoing federal investigation into allegations of excessive force leveled against members of the Lorain Police Department. Lorain police union President Buddy Sivert declined to comment on the settlement, and Rivera did not return a call seeking comment... [Full article here]
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

[OH] For the Record: Lorain Officer Gerek got PROBATION?

This is a record I've had for awhile but never posted because it is slightly older than the range I include - 2003 forward. I am posting it now because some of my officer-involved domestic violence sisters and I are focusing on Lorain Ohio due to the DANGEROUS Officer Corey Earl and his very at-risk wife, Laura - and it brings us more understanding of the area's history. (Makes us smarter.)
Lorain police officer Timothy Gerek Jr.
FOR THE RECORD

AS OF SEP 2007 TIMOTHY GEREK JR. IS STILL PICTURED (2ND FROM THE LEFT) ON THE LORAIN POLICE DEPARTMENT WEBSITE HERE: Governor's Award of Excellence for LPD C.O.P.S. Unit






EXCERPTS:
OH Lorain officer indicted for rape, violence
The Morning Journal
CRAIG RIMLINGER and JAHI HARVEY
02/01/2002
Lorain police officer Timothy Gerek Jr. turned himself in for arrest yesterday after the Lorain County Grand Jury returned a secret indictment charging him with rape and a misdemeanor domestic violence count... During the incident, Gerek threatened to kill their children if his wife left him or called police, according to a police report.
... Both charges are first-degree offenses... GEREK WAS ORIGINALLY CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN LORAIN MUNICIPAL COURT, but the charge was dismissed and new charges resulted from the grand jury's indictment...

Indictment charges Lorain policeman with beating and raping estranged wife
The Plain Dealer
February 2, 2002
Kera Ritter; Plain Dealer Reporter
A Lorain police officer has been indicted on charges that he beat and raped his estranged wife last December... Gerek's wife told police that she did not want to file charges against her husband because she was afraid of him. On Dec. 21, she filed for a protection order to keep her husband away from her and their two children. Gerek was released Thursday from the Lorain County Jail on $10,000 bond...

Lorain officer trades badge for reduced charge
The Plain Dealer
Rachel Dissell
July 10, 2002
A Lorain police officer accused of beating and raping his wife pleaded guilty to a reduced charge yesterday. A plea agreement with prosecutors calls for Timothy Gerek Jr. to resign from the force immediately and never work as an officer again. In exchange, the rape charge was dropped and a charge of domestic violence was reduced to misdemeanor assault... Gerek's wife told authorities in December that her husband sexually assaulted her after a scuffle in their home... climbed on top of her while she slept on the couch and ripped away some of her clothes after she refused his advances. She stabbed him with scissors, but police determined that she acted in self-defense. Lorain County prosecutors decided not to take the case to trial because Gerek's wife was unwilling to testify...

Accused officer now wants trial
The Plain Dealer
August 24, 2002
A Lorain police officer who resigned from the force last month after pleading guilty to assaulting his wife now wants to take the case to trial. Timothy Gerek Jr., charged with raping his wife, asked a Lorain County Common Pleas judge Thursday to let him withdraw the guilty plea. Gerek says he was pressured to make the decision in a matter of minutes. Cleveland lawyer Terry Gilbert is handling the case. Gerek has not been sentenced but did turn in his badge, gun and peace officer certificate the day after his plea.

Ex-officer rejected in request to change plea in assault case
His agreement included promise to leave law enforcement
The Plain Dealer
Rachel Dissell
September 21, 2002
A judge refused yesterday to let former Lorain police officer Timothy Gerek Jr. withdraw a plea admitting he assaulted his wife last winter. Gerek, originally charged with domestic violence and rape, claimed he was hurried into the guilty plea in the minutes before his trial was to start... Two months after the plea,
Gerek changed his mind
because he wanted to REMAIN
in law enforcement...
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Lynett McGough
sentenced Gerek to
a year of PROBATION
and a $500 FINE.
SHE EXPRESSED CONCERN
THAT GEREK
WAS NOT STAYING AWAY
FROM HIS WIFE
AS THE COURT HAD ORDERED...
AND

WARNED

GEREK
not to contact his wife or he would serve a six-month jail sentence
that she

suspended...

Note: Gerek Jr.'s dad, Timothy Gerek, was also a Lorain Police Officer. So was his sister Shelly Coonrod for awhile - and she was (is?) married to a corrections officer at the Lorain County Jail. Their GRANDfather, Joseph Zieba, was a Lorain County Judge.
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