Post by WaTcHeR on Dec 2, 2006 10:49:00 GMT -5
12.02.2006 - CANTON A city police officer charged with domestic violence has been suspended from the force.
Mark A. Diels, 45, of Paris Township is on paid suspension pending the outcome of the case, said Police Chief Dean McKimm. McKimm said an internal investigation is under way.
Diels' wife, Aina Diels, told Stark County sheriff's deputies that her husband assaulted her about 7 p.m. Sunday, reports said. Chief Deputy Rick Perez said that deputies were not called to the home and that Aina Diels was not taken to the hospital. She came to the Sheriff's Department to file the complaint.
In the complaint filed in Alliance Municipal Court, she said that her husband grabbed her by the wrist and arms and pushed her around, and that he bear-hugged her twice, making it difficult to breathe.
Diels was booked in the Stark County Jail on Thursday and later released after posting $10,000 bond on the first-degree misdemeanor charge. If convicted, he faces up to six months in jail.
Diels pleaded innocent during a court hearing Friday, court records show. He also was to stay away from his wife and to attend anger-management courses as a condition of his bond.
In May 2000, he was ordered to take anger-management courses for two unrelated cases in which he was accused of assaulting men he was trying to arrest. Diels was accused of hitting one man on the head with a flashlight, causing an injury that required three stitches, and slamming another against a car, splitting the man's lip.
A seven-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force who left the service as a sergeant, Diels worked for four years as a police officer for the Sandusky County Sheriff's and Bellevue Police departments before getting hired by Canton in August 1995, according to his personnel file.
The file contains several commendations as well as suspensions and disciplinary action for violating department rules and regulations.
Those include violating conduct and vehicle rules, insubordination and treatment of prisoners' rules. He was ordered to get training and suspended once for five days.
Diels was lauded in January 2000 for his investigation that led to the arrest of a Canadian national wanted in several Canadian provinces and deported by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. He was commended in October 2002 for his professionalism in handling a case involving a deceased victim, and in March 2004 for his work assisting in the arrests of several men on felony drug and weapons charges that allowed officers to seize 92 grams of powdered cocaine.
In March 2003, he filed several grievances against the city.
Hearing papers in his personnel file said that midnight shift supervisors considered him "a problem employee ... ."
Then-Public Safety Director Joseph Concatto, who is now the city's service director, ruled that Diels must follow orders, obey the chain of command and "not purposefully look for arrests and traffic stops at the end of his shift for the sole purpose of getting overtime ... ."
The supervisors also were ordered to allow him to file for overtime, and told that he should not be singled out and given different procedures than fellow officers.
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Mark A. Diels, 45, of Paris Township is on paid suspension pending the outcome of the case, said Police Chief Dean McKimm. McKimm said an internal investigation is under way.
Diels' wife, Aina Diels, told Stark County sheriff's deputies that her husband assaulted her about 7 p.m. Sunday, reports said. Chief Deputy Rick Perez said that deputies were not called to the home and that Aina Diels was not taken to the hospital. She came to the Sheriff's Department to file the complaint.
In the complaint filed in Alliance Municipal Court, she said that her husband grabbed her by the wrist and arms and pushed her around, and that he bear-hugged her twice, making it difficult to breathe.
Diels was booked in the Stark County Jail on Thursday and later released after posting $10,000 bond on the first-degree misdemeanor charge. If convicted, he faces up to six months in jail.
Diels pleaded innocent during a court hearing Friday, court records show. He also was to stay away from his wife and to attend anger-management courses as a condition of his bond.
In May 2000, he was ordered to take anger-management courses for two unrelated cases in which he was accused of assaulting men he was trying to arrest. Diels was accused of hitting one man on the head with a flashlight, causing an injury that required three stitches, and slamming another against a car, splitting the man's lip.
A seven-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force who left the service as a sergeant, Diels worked for four years as a police officer for the Sandusky County Sheriff's and Bellevue Police departments before getting hired by Canton in August 1995, according to his personnel file.
The file contains several commendations as well as suspensions and disciplinary action for violating department rules and regulations.
Those include violating conduct and vehicle rules, insubordination and treatment of prisoners' rules. He was ordered to get training and suspended once for five days.
Diels was lauded in January 2000 for his investigation that led to the arrest of a Canadian national wanted in several Canadian provinces and deported by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. He was commended in October 2002 for his professionalism in handling a case involving a deceased victim, and in March 2004 for his work assisting in the arrests of several men on felony drug and weapons charges that allowed officers to seize 92 grams of powdered cocaine.
In March 2003, he filed several grievances against the city.
Hearing papers in his personnel file said that midnight shift supervisors considered him "a problem employee ... ."
Then-Public Safety Director Joseph Concatto, who is now the city's service director, ruled that Diels must follow orders, obey the chain of command and "not purposefully look for arrests and traffic stops at the end of his shift for the sole purpose of getting overtime ... ."
The supervisors also were ordered to allow him to file for overtime, and told that he should not be singled out and given different procedures than fellow officers.
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