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Post by WaTcHeR on Dec 27, 2005 1:45:13 GMT -5
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."
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Post by Ice River Springs drinker on Jan 12, 2006 13:11:51 GMT -5
CR-05-474662-A; THE STATE OF OHIO vs. DONALD MCNEA 01/12/2006; CASE DISMISSED ON RECOMMENDATION OF PROSECUTOR DAN KASARIS, CASE IS DISMISSED. CAPIAS RECALLED. THIS ENTRY TAKEN BY JUDGE EILEEN A GALLAGHER.
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Post by KC on Jan 13, 2006 20:34:41 GMT -5
CR-05-474662-A; THE STATE OF OHIO vs. DONALD MCNEA 01/12/2006; CASE DISMISSED ON RECOMMENDATION OF PROSECUTOR DAN KASARIS, CASE IS DISMISSED. CAPIAS RECALLED. THIS ENTRY TAKEN BY JUDGE EILEEN A GALLAGHER. Well after doing a "Google" I see no such information that the case was dismissed, unless officer McNea really does have friends in high places. Since he just busted 3 weeks I think your full of crap! Now I did notice when doing the search, that it seems that officer McNea was probably one of the worse cops ever to wear a badge. Here's another story below on officer McNea.
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Post by KC on Jan 13, 2006 20:35:24 GMT -5
03/09/03 - In the Parma Police Department, it doesn't hurt to have a friend in high places, as the recent career of Sgt. Donald McNea shows.
Even though he was once fired for the "illegal conversion" of promotional-exam answers and repeatedly breaking department rules, McNea now has one of the cushiest jobs in the city. And he enjoys perks normally afforded only to the highest-ranking officers.
McNea, 50, who moonlights as the proprietor of a promotional-exam coaching service, has attained his special status despite records showing that:
In 1978, his second year on the force, a supervisor recommended that, barring a "radical change," McNea be fired for not exhibiting "the qualities we look for in a patrolman."
In the early 1980s, he was found in a bar when he was supposed to be home sick.
Several years later, he admitted under oath that he had worked outside jobs while on sick leave.
And in 1989, having risen to lieutenant, he was fired for flagrant violations of department regulations.
Specifically, McNea had repeatedly been caught by a police surveillance team spending hours at home when he was supposed to be on duty.
And he admitted having copied the answers from a promotional exam and sharing them with a junior officer.
McNea sued the city over the termination, and three years later the case was settled. Stripped of his rank, he was allowed to return to the force in 1992 as a patrolman.
He made sergeant again in 1996. Since then, he has angered city and police officials by supporting a liquor permit for a Parma bar before the Ohio Liquor Commission, even though the city was trying to shut it for alleged disturbances that included assaults on police officers. (McNea charged the city overtime for attending a meeting to discuss the incident.)
Records also show that McNea has been reprimanded for posting obscene material on police computers.
And yet, according to sources inside and outside the department, he has been a member of Chief Mark Manning's inner circle ever since Manning took the department's helm in 2000.
Manning assigned him full time last July to a special desk job - to revise and rewrite the department's policies and procedures manual. This despite the chief's regular lament that the department is woefully undermanned on the street.
McNea is required to produce the new policies at the rate of six per month.
And unknown to city council, which has been trying to cut such police expenses, McNea was granted the use of a department-owned car as part of his assignment. He was the only sergeant outside the detective bureau to enjoy such a perk.
Normally, take-home cars are reserved for officers on 24-hour call or for high-ranking police and city officials.
McNea's red Pontiac sedan was originally seized in a drug bust and had been assigned to the detective bureau for undercover use.
Records show that McNea, despite having no street duties, has been regularly fueling the car at taxpayer expense since late July - presumably for his drives to and from work.
He declined to discuss why he needed a city-owned car.
McNea's new ride was news to City Council member Deborah Lime, who has been trying to crack down on the use of city-owned cars by police officers.
Last spring, Manning assured Lime and others that take-home cars were assigned only where necessary "to carry out our uniquely sensitive, critical 24-hour police operations."
Manning said McNea needed the car for limited travel in connection with his new duties. It was reassigned to another officer two weeks ago, he said, in a move unrelated to the Plain Dealer's inquiries.
But given his desk job, hardly "uniquely sensitive," Lime wonders why McNea was granted the perk in the first place.
One reason may lie buried in the thousands of documents detailing McNea's firing in 1989.
At the time, McNea testified that he had been allowed to use a city office to review the grading on a promotional exam he had just taken.
But while reviewing the test, McNea said, he was able to read the questions and answers out loud into a tape recorder he had hidden on a stool next to him.
He testified that he later shared those questions and answers during several study sessions with an ambitious officer on his 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. shift: then-Sgt. Mark Manning.
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Post by real researcher on Jan 13, 2006 21:54:51 GMT -5
CR-05-474662-A; THE STATE OF OHIO vs. DONALD MCNEA 01/12/2006; CASE DISMISSED ON RECOMMENDATION OF PROSECUTOR DAN KASARIS, CASE IS DISMISSED. CAPIAS RECALLED. THIS ENTRY TAKEN BY JUDGE EILEEN A GALLAGHER. Well after doing a "Google" I see no such information that the case was dismissed, unless officer McNea really does have friends in high places. Since he just busted 3 weeks I think your full of crap! Now I did notice when doing the search, that it seems that officer McNea was probably one of the worse cops ever to wear a badge. Here's another story below on officer McNea. You are yet another goof who does not know what you're talking about and who doesn't know how to properly research stuff (only Google?!). The information is from none other than an official document of the court that would have heard the trial, hence the manner in which it was written. And as for anything you read in The Plain Dealer, take it for a grain of salt. They are notoriously wrong and error-laden, especially when it comes to false reporting on just about anything related to Parma. Once they had a headline blaring about something wrong with the Parma police; the next day, they had a mini-paragraph that it was really Brookpark and had nothing to do with Parma whatsover. Another time, the Plain Dealer had an article talking about how a black man wasn't hired by the Parma fired department, which naturally resulted in NAACP animosity, when it was actually another city job that the man had sought. And yet on another occasion, the Plain Dealer had pictures of Parma officers mismatched with names, said a patrolman was a captain, and so on. That rag is out of control when it comes to errors! And every once in a while you'll get some little correction buried in the paper somewhere. Woo-hoo! These news articles are consistently misleading and sometimes outright false. For whatever off the wall reason that you don't like the police (are you some kind of criminal who fears the police?) is beyond me, but needless to say, if you want to be suspicious of anything, let it be the media! Heck, even the TV media isn't trustworthy. Don't forget the lessons of Jayson Blair and Dan Rather . . . Happy Holidays! Someone who is actually interested in the TRUTH!!
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Post by more on Jan 13, 2006 21:59:42 GMT -5
God, write to the court if you got such a hardon for the guy!
Sheesh, it makes you wonder if you don't have anything worth while or honest to do with your time. Why not do some volunteer work somewhere or something useful instead wallowing around in trash talking people you don't know and the only sources that you have for anything on them is biased if not outright false. Use your energy for some good instead of promoting hate. The world has enough evil in it that it doesn't need crybabies whining about "so and so retired police officer that never did anything to me must be ostracized, because I have nothing more constructive to do with my time." How about hoping that anyone who has problems with drugs gets help? How about participating in programs that help discourage drug use?
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Post by Prosecutorial Misconduct on Jan 13, 2006 22:26:19 GMT -5
Prosecutor Daniel Kasaris is into videos of anal sex is he?
This guy is more crooked then my dick.
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Post by Guestify on Jan 13, 2006 23:08:17 GMT -5
Prosecutor Daniel Kasaris is into videos of anal sex is he? This guy is more crooked then my dick. How so? What did he do that is "crooked"? If you want crooked prosecutors, look into a guy named Michael Nolan, who's known for misspelling names in reports, mismatching names on indictment forms, indicting people in courts that he has no authority in and then needing judges to grant him retroactive power so that he can't be sued. I'm surprised you guys don't have a prosecutorcrime.com or something to that effect? Why not? Unjustifiable prosecutions cost us taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars (if not more) yearly?
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Post by Just looking on Jan 14, 2006 0:27:11 GMT -5
I'm surprised you guys don't have a prosecutorcrime.com or something to that effect? Why not? Unjustifiable prosecutions cost us taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars (if not more) yearly? Prosecutors may be evil and corrupt, but on the other hand they don't carry a gun and have the power to kill who they choose, where the cops do.
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Post by Guestify on Jan 14, 2006 0:51:59 GMT -5
I'm surprised you guys don't have a prosecutorcrime.com or something to that effect? Why not? Unjustifiable prosecutions cost us taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars (if not more) yearly? Prosecutors may be evil and corrupt, but on the other hand they don't carry a gun and have the power to kill who they choose, where the cops do. In a sense, they (prosecutors) do. Think about it. There's more then one way to end or at least ruin a life and bring false charges against people, especially if you manage to hoodwink a judge and/or jury, which has happened many a time in our country, the prosecutor can still ruin someone's life and in some instances this can even result in a wrongful execution. That movie The Fugitive wasn't entirely based on fiction! And even if someone's acquitted, people still tend to believe they might have been guilty. Look at how many people on this forum read something in the paper and assume because a prosecutor said so that it must be true. I don't know if Michael Jackon or OJ Simpson were guilty, but despite their acquittals, a lot of people still think that they were and even if they're not and even though they've been acquitted, they'll always have that stigma for the rest of their lives and after. So, a prosecutor can still defame someone and essentially ruin his or her life without having to even shoot them! And as for your comment about shooting whoever they choose. All I can say is "HUH!?!?" God, practically every time the police shoot someone, an investigation takes place. The overwhelming number of police officers with whom I've ever spoken are afriad to ever have to shoot someone, because of possible consequences and questions that could arise. Police "choose" to shoot people when they feel it is absolutely necessary, i.e. your, my, or their life is/are in danger. They don't just go out deciding to shoot people for giggles. Psychopaths might do that and they might be cops who have done that, but they don't last and they get in trouble. The overwhelming majority of officers (honest and decent) never use their firearms and even if they do, it's for justifiable reasons. The random anomalies that you may cite as examples do not detract from the MILLIONS of officers who are cautious and professional when it comes to the use of their weapons. Police don't have fictious powers to randomly "shoot who they choose;" they only have power to use deadly force when someone's (victim, cop, citizen, etc.) life is on the line and a suspect or known criminal is threatening to physically harm one or more individuals. I hope that you're just as concerned about real criminals who roam our streets armed and dangerous as you seem to be about the police and I hope that you and others aren't too overly paranoid. If you are having problems coping (and no, I'm not being saracastic; I'm serious on this), I hope that you are able to find someone to talk to or something, because some of this intense anti-police rhetoric is just not healthy, I mean, if it's really eating y'all up inside this much! Are you afraid to even leave your homes?! I'm not. Sure, I've been pulled over. I even got a ticket once, but I don't resent the police as a result. Some, a minority, may be bad apples, but it's no worse than people of every profession. Now, the reason why I'm more concerned about prosecutors and judges are because their decisions have a possibility of affecting far more people than individual cops; verdicts and affects whole laws and honest prosecutors and judges won't railroad people arrested by crooked cops. Dishonest prosecutors and judges, however, allow corrupt practices to take place. But anyway, we have a FAR bigger issue in Cuyahoga County than Parma at this point, because there's nothing with the cops going on now anyway. And yes, I too looked into the McNea case and the above posted information is correct. The bigger problem is that Cleveland is getting and setting up a whole crapload of these big brother-like cameras to take pictures of plates at intersections. What do you guys make of that? Somehow it feels too invasive and I don't even think the police agree with it. Should we all get together and start doing something to end these cities that are putting these traffic cameras up? Are there existing efforts to do away with these things? It seems like another effort by the politicians to make more money of the taxpayers! I even heard that some of these traffic cameras are hooked up to lights that go to red faster to catch more people allegedly going through the red. What do others think? And yes, I'm listening to Conan now, but like you're not?
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Post by Administrator on Jan 14, 2006 20:55:57 GMT -5
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Post by Guestify on Jan 14, 2006 22:37:16 GMT -5
I read your post and I do agree that there are some cops who shouldn't wear the badge; however, just as you believe that there are people who are set up if not framed or falsely arrested by the police, there are also police officers who are innocent too, but are falsely accused of alleged crimes and that is what concerns me here. Some of these officers are being villified, when maybe they too are truly victims of wrongful arrest as ironic as that might be, but in any case, it's still wrong and just because there's an article in the media, it doesn't necessarily mean that's what's alleged is accurate, true, unbiased, and so on. Thus, some of the cops ostracized on this site might be unjustifiably having the character's defamed and libelled when the media is wrong or a snitch cop is out for revenge or a crooked prosecutor is setting them up. If you were innocent of something and the press ran with it anyway, would you websites blasting you as if there's no question you really did what's alleged? Just be cautious not to participate in something that's essential what you're trying to protest!
Regards.
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Post by ev on Jan 20, 2006 21:02:09 GMT -5
November 3, 2005, Appellate Decisions That Detail Abuse Or Prosecutorial Misconduct In Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office We hope this database will grow but it will currently only cover Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Daniel Kasaris and Prosector Bill Mason’s “Economic Crimes Unit” because from first hand knowledge – we know this unit is “sailing the seas of government without a compass.” While many of these decisions may attract a reader to concentrate on the misdeeds of the defendant, this database will focus on the State’s conduct during prosecution. Indeed, the lives of many of these defendants seem to be completely out of control – but if the state’s evidence is strong, employing smear tactics that lower the dignity of the proceedings should never be allowed. We’ll also attempt to track how many times these prosecutors are held accountable by the Ohio Disciplinary Counsel for these specific citations of misconduct or failure to follow basic rules of court. www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/newpdf/8/2002/2002-ohio-1649.pdf. This is a link to a case where Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Daniel Kasaris obtained a tape showing a defendant (a doctor) having anal sex with his wife. The defendant was accused of (among other things) conspiring to kill his wife. The Prosecutor claimed that he was using the tape to impeach the defendant’s testimony about the quality of his relationship with his wife. The Appeals Court ruled that the prosecutor’s claims of impeachment were “dubious at best” and that “The use of the video tape is more perplexing because the state did not need it to prove the allegations contained in the indictments.” The Court ruled frankly: "the video tape should not have been played to the jury" before adding, "It is the function of the state to vigorously prosecute its case, but at the same time to protect the rights of the accused and ensure a fair trial." Prosecutor Kasaris had the tape enhanced by NASA engineers for better sound before showing it to the jury. From-http://www.erievoices.com/blog/
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