CANTON, Ohio - A Canton police office who was caught on camera making death threats, yelling and screaming at people he pulled over during traffic stops faces a disciplinary hearing Thursday at 1 p.m. at Canton City Hall. Officer Daniel Harless could lose his job at the hearing, according to Canton Police Chief Dean McKimm. An internal affairs investigation concluded that Harless violated three department rules and regulations during three traffic stops where he was caught on camera berating citizens Investigators say Harless violated rules related to deportment, cooperation with the public and treatment of persons in custody.
WESTLAKE, OH (WOIO) – The 19-year-old mother who abandoned her sleeping baby boy while shoplifting in Crocker Park has surrendered to police. Brettany Walton turned herself in to Westlake Police on Saturday at 11:15AM. Bond was set at $30,000 on the charges of Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors and Complicity to Theft. She was […]
CLEVELAND – The city of Cleveland will hold a swearing-in ceremony next week for 25 laid-off police officers who are returning to duty. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson made the announcement Friday and will administer the oath at 8 a.m. Monday at Cleveland police headquarters. Jackson said the officers are able to return because of a […]
MENTOR, Ohio – A former University of Akron and Mentor High School athlete was found dead in his home Wednesday. Mentor police confirmed 25-year-old Chris Jacquemain was dead when emergency crews arrived at his house. The Lake County Coroner’s Office said no foul play is suspected and they’re waiting on toxicology reports to come to […]
MENTOR-ON-THE-LAKE, Ohio – The woman’s body that was found at a former Mentor police officer’s home has been identified. Lake County Coroner Dr. Lynn Smith said the woman is 53-year-old Diane Stroud. Her husband and retired Mentor officer, Gary Stroud, has been charged with murder and appeared in Mentor Municipal Court on Tuesday. Over the […]
If, in the euphemistic police state in which we currently live, pepper-spray is a taco condiment, that would make tasing…what? A joy-buzzing compliance aid? Sure, let’s call it that. Now can someone explain to me why Officer John Turner of Scotland Neck, North Carolina’s police department felt the need to use a joy-buzzing compliance aid on […]
BRUNSWICK, Ohio – A Medina man turned himself in after police say he hit a car and said he was a Brunswick police officer. The hit-skip happened Saturday night on Pearl Road near Oxford in Brunswick. Kathy Paintiff said she was sideswiped by a man claiming to be an officer with the Brunswick Police Department. […]
Cleveland police are questioning a man about a possible attempt abduction of a little girl. It happened around 2:30 p-m in the 54-hundred block of Euclid Avenue. The clerk at the gas station at 54-hundred Euclid tells police a young girl, about eight or nine years old, ran into the gas station, crying hysterically. She […]
Katt Williams and a female companion were questioned by police in Ohio over an alleged shoplifting incident at a Best Buy store … but this time, Katt was NOT arrested. Law enforcement sources tell us … cops were dispatched to the Best Buy in Coleraine, OH after receiving a call about a person, who appeared to […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – 19 Action News has learned police were called to the property of convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell overnight. Someone cut a gaping hole in a large fence surrounding the property. The intruder somehow set off an alarm at a business next door. They were not able to get inside the Sowell […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland Police are asking for the public’s help locating a female missing from the west-side of Cleveland. Marlena B. Manzie, 18, was reported missing by her foster family on Tuesday, November 1st. She is originally from the Akron area and her knowledge of the Cleveland area is limited. The family told police […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – Akron Police have a man in custody they say beat his child over homework. Christopher Curry, 39, of Akron has been charged with Felonious Assault, Felony Child Endangering, Domestic Violence and Child Endangering. Police say the 5-year-old girl was beaten by Curry because she could not do her homework. Officers were […]