[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]

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... 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...
• [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...
• [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...

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