Parma Witch Hunt

[police and truth supporter]

I noticed recent news about the Parma, Ohio police department posted on a page concerning alleged Ohio police misconduct. Unfortunately, your site does not seem to acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of the so-called allegations against the Parma police have been thoroughly discredited. Moreover, the individual responsible for bringing forth indictments against certain officers appears to lack a good deal of credibility himself. His costly report is full of even grammatical errors and he didn't even properly match names on the indictment forms. For more on the truth behind this matter, visit the following www.parma-oh.com/forum, maxpages.com/zar/In_Praise_of_Councilman_Drabik, maxpages.com/zar/Letter_To_All_Union_Police, maxpages.com/zar/Parma_Police_FOP_Press_Release.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

A supporter of the police and the truth!

[cop hunt]

parma cops are rip off artists with cell phones attached to the side of their head!

[cop hunt]

Richard DiCicco and Michael Nolan are rip off artists with cell phones attached to the side of their head!

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject: lastest on the witch hunt

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From Cleveland.com (though some additional material added for clarity and better accuracy):

Defense derails Parma officer's trial: Last-minute challenge postpones fraud case

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

By Jim Nichols, Plain Dealer Reporter

The long and costly criminal investigation into Parma's Police Department was conducted illegally and charges against at least one officer are invalid, a defense lawyer contended Monday.

John Luskin, attorney for suspended Patrolman Vincent Semanik, made the claim on the day his client's trial on 12 [illegitimate] tax-fraud-related charges was to begin.

Luskin charged that a city-appointed special prosecutor, Michael Nolan, never obtained the legal authority he needed to bring the case against Semanik to the Cuyahoga County grand jury. The county's top judge should have been asked to appoint a special prosecutor before the case went to the grand jury but that never happened, Luskin said.

[sss]

get the phone off your head punk cop!

[Bill Harn]

To the Parma City Counsel.

I am a former Parma Police Officer, Parma Citizen & have Captained their Brooklyn production facility's security.

I have watched the sad story of a bumbled investigation and the editorial attack on the City of Parma with it's Police Department This long term assault initiated by the Plain Dealer, the Court, the Attorneys, and the Investigator are the only ones that will make money from this whole mess. I hope the Plain Dealer appreciate the extra income generated from their advertisers. Horace Greeley once said, "If a dog bites a man that is not news, but if a man bites a dog that is news. The City of Parma managed to make news that cost the City of Parma into the 6 figure and is heading toward 7.

A wise person would not throw good money after bad. Was this investment done to catch IRS violators? If so, they nor any other venue are interested in prosecuting other than the City of Parma.

I talked to former Mayor John Patruska about a decision he made regarding Safety Force and duty with the Military. He said that he would not change his position. I said that I could take it to court. He replied that he had city funds to fight with. I realized that he was willing to waste the taxpayers money to save face. I also knew the damage that it would do to the budget. I did not wish to break the bank or raise taxes. I ate humble pie. I can live with that. I still had my job, I did not do any harm.

The Counsel is in the same position. Is it worth the trials, both criminal and future law suits, the law suits that could run more than two investigations. I hope that the City leadership will leave something for the Citizens. Before your vote on going ahead with this consider the possibility that the tale is wagging the dog. Consider what the damage could be to the City. Take charge and lead your City out of this mess today. May God bless and guide the Counsel.

Respectfully, Willard E. Harn, Parma Police Retired, 12/31/1996, 12 PM,Badge 506 with over 28 years of service and over 31 years with the USMC & USMCR

[policetruth supporter]

Good post, Bill!

It's all political. For more of what's really going on in Parma city government, see www.parmatownhall.blogspot.com/

[Luvacop]

cop said:

parma cops are rip off artists with cell phones attached to the side of their head!

There's a mature, intelligent comment! (Not!) Way to make your point.

[Luvacop]

sss said:

get the phone off your head punk cop!

ANOTHER GENIUS OPINION

[hudsonpolice]

Speaking of cell phones... the police in Hudson, Ohio are always sitting in the McDonalds parking lot for at least a half hour talking on their cell phones... I don't think that is protecting or serving the public.

[play hardball]

hudsonpolice said:

Speaking of cell phones... the police in Hudson, Ohio are always sitting in the McDonalds parking lot for at least a half hour talking on their cell phones... I don't think that is protecting or serving the public.

Speaking of idiots who don't know what they're talking about . . . Actually, the police throughout Cuyahoga County are required to have cell phones for communicating with their stations/unit commanders so as not to flood the regular radio channels and also to make it harder for criminals with scanners to discern what the police's strategies are.

The real question about abuse is how and why Michael Nolan is being allowed to prosecute people in Cuyahoga County illegally? Let's not just focus on alleged police corruption. What about corrupt courts and prosecutors? Parma's law director and Cuyahoga County's prosecutor both need to resign for letting this Nolan flaunt the law as he's been doing. Judge McMonegle should step down as well. These people obviously don't believe in fair trials or even the American Constitution . . . For more, go to parma-oh.com

[cop lover]

cell phone freqency can be scanned just as easy you moron cop! learn what you are talking about dufus!

[a real cop fan]

cop said:

cell phone freqency can be scanned just as easy you moron cop! learn what you are talking about dufus!

And you call yourself cop lover?! Well, moronic doofus, having cell phones and radios just makes it that much more confusing and difficult for the real villains (criminals). Instead of whining about such trivial crap, why not actually do something productive for your community like paint a park or looking into the corruption in city government?

[villanous villan robin]

its not confusing or difficult for us villans batman! you moronic cop fan!

[Brick Shetland]

villanous said:

its not confusing or difficult for us villans batman! you moronic cop fan!

So, you're admitting that you're a criminal/villain? You're name would be McMonegle or Nolan would it?

[ogrady]

learn how to spell idiot!

[propolice and protruth]

A DEFINITE READ FOR ALL PEOPLE, PLEASE READ ON.....

Ben Stein's Last Column






For many years Ben Stein has written a biweekly column called "Monday Night At Morton's." (Morton's is a famous chain of Steakhouses known to be frequented by movie stars and famous people from around the globe.) Now, Ben is terminating the column to move on to other things in his life. Reading his final column is worth a few minutes of your time.

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How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?

As I begin to write this, I "slug" it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is "eonlineFINAL," and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end.

It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it. On a small scale, Morton's, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that Splendor in the Grass was a super movie. But Morton's is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.


Beyond that, a bigger change has happened. I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to.

How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a "star" we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails.

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him.

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists.

We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.

I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.

There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament...the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards.

Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin...or Martin Mull or Fred Willard--or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them.

But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.

This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. By Ben Stein


We truly take a lot for granted. Forget the Hollywood "stars" and the sports "heroes"... and pass this on!

[hadenuff]

Do the previous personal insults and name-calling add anything to the topic? I wouldn't think so.

[hadenuff]

I enjoyed the column by Ben Stein. We need heroes now.

[propolice and protruth]

Here's a good post I found about this topic at parma-oh.com:

Dear members of Parma city government,

Over the past several months, it has become more and more apparent to me that certain Parma Police Officers are being unlawfully attacked with indictments of alleged tax fraud. After all, the recent article printed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer concerning revelations of the illegality involved with the special prosecutor's error-filled indictments make the city of Parma appear corrupt, and as if it is no longer the honorable city it once was. Moreover, it is extremely hard for me and my friends who also live in Parma to believe that two individuals, Parma Police Officers Semanik and Zarzeczny, would be tried for multiple felonies on the grounds of tax evasion when the combined total of taxes for both officers that were allegedly not reported were less than $500. Can you please tell me the reasoning behind this, since no one apparently has one? Why is the City of Parma paying a special prosecutor to prosecute people for State of Ohio taxes in the first place? That is simply not logical and nor is it acceptable that democratic-led Parma should foot the bill for the republican-led State! I heard that the prosecutor Michael Nolan is being paid $250 per hour to investigate this matter. How is it possibly in the best interest of Parma residents to pay a guy so much over such an insignificant amount of unreported taxes, when everyone from delivery people to barbers and waitresses and so on probably fail to report much more than a couple hundred dollars every year? I also heard that these officers amended their taxes like a bunch of other officers not being charged did. Why the selective indictments? Is there something more to this? Is this some kind of political vendetta by Nolan or others in the city? Nolan was paid over $20,000 to present a report on his findings. Various city officials expressed disappointment with Nolan's delayed completion of this report as well as his findings. Why are some in the city supporting him now? How does any of this seem reasonable to any extent? The city of Parma is wasting thousands upon thousands of dollars so one person can try to prosecute people on charges of less than $500 of which reportedly all have been paid back?! As a resident of the City of Parma I do not need my tax dollars to go to such wasteful uses as the personal coiffeurs of Michael Nolan. These accusations against the Parma police are beyond ridiculous and the reasoning behind prosecuting them for tax fraud over only few hundred dollars sounds for a lack of better word just plain stupid. How can one rationalize spending over thousands of dollars of tax paying citizens' hard earned money and just throw it away to try and selectively prosecute people on tax money that was already paid back? And what's with this granting Nolan retroactive authority to prosecute?! If that doesn't seem blatantly suspect, then I don't know what does. Our city should not tolerate these kind of possibly illegal games to be played by prosecutors. Nolan had his chance to make a case and he went about it illegally. If anyone should be charged with something it's a guy who illegally indicts people and then has to try to get some kind of absurd retroactive authority to legitimize his illegal activities. Do doctors and cops get retroactive authority to operate on and arrest people before they actually become doctors and cops?! This action is just a farce and some kind of bogus stunt that the residents of Parma WILL NOT TOLERATE! How much more money is Parma going to waste paying a guy who obviously either doesn't know what he is doing or at least has some kind of malicious intentions? The city of Parma could be using that money in so many other ways that would benefit all of Parma such as for the public school system, hiring more police officers, beautifying the city, and so on. I am deeply disappointed by this whole matter and the fact that Parma is allowing it to continue. No one that I know in my community wants any more of their city tax dollars wasted by prosecuting people over something so blatantly frivolous. Our city needs to move ahead and put the police investigation behind us already. How many more months or years does our city have to be dragged through the mud over this? How much more embarrassment does the city have to suffer because of the ineptness of a single special prosecutor? In order to prevent Michael Nolan from continuing to make Parma look bad, I respectfully request that all charges against the two Parma cops be dropped before Parma wastes any more money and gets any more bad press. These guys and their families have probably suffered more than enough in legal fees and stress over the past year or so to more than rectify whatever mistakes they may have made by not reporting just a couple hundred dollars apiece years ago. Employees of our city deserve more fair and just treatment than what those guys are getting and we taxpaying residents deserve to have our money used on more constructive matters.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
Daniel Gordyan
Parma tax payer and graduate of Normandy High School

[WaTcHeR]

December 27, 2005 - A retired Parma police sergeant was arrested Friday and charged with 13 counts of drug trafficking and related crimes.

Officer Donald F. McNea Jr., 53, had been the target of a 2½-year investigation by Parma police and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The investigation focused on the sale of the highly addictive pain medication OxyContin.

McNea, who lives in Parma, served on the police force from 1977 until 2003. He was ar rested Friday and accused of selling drugs outside a con venience store in Parma, said Capt. Bob DeSimone.

McNea's career had been marked with problems. He received poor reviews as a patrolman. A supervisor once said McNea did not exhibit "the qualities we look for in a patrolman," and recommended that he be fired unless his performance improved.

As a lieutenant in the late 1980s, McNea was dismissed for spending time at his parents' house while on duty and for copying questions from a Civil Service examination, which he acknowledged giving to a subordinate officer. McNea had said a parent was ill and there was nothing wrong with copying questions from the exam.

McNea sued, and Parma reinstated him as a patrolman. He became a sergeant in 1996.

"This is not easy or something we enjoy doing, but it's necessary," Detective Marty Compton said about the drug investigation. Compton said that no other officers are involved.

Parma Mayor Dean DePiero said McNea's arrest "shows that no one is above the law."