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Police arrested two kids for making threats at Tipp City schools. I wonder if they got the right ones or the only ones. More on the threats.

Boy arrested for Troy school threat.

I-75 construction crash.

Now we get the full story about the cancellation of the First Four festival. The NCAA was protecting corporate sponsors. Other events.

Police make big drug bust.

"Police recently confiscated tens of thousands of dollars in cash, 8 pounds of marijuana, multiple vehicles and six firearms during a search of a home in the 100 block of Whitmore Avenue."

They miss thousands of times that amount at least.

I haven't read any of the articles about the firing of this DiPietro guy, but I clicked on this article about a second firing and read this:

"The administrator’s termination follows the firing of former Deputy Chief John DiPietro, who was found guilty Feb. 13 of several violations of the township’s professional code when he hosed down a naked 17-year-old girl in police custody."

Clearly, anybody who would do this was sure they could get away with it. They've probably done it many times. What a horrific example showing how government attracts the most brutal, sexually deviant people in the country to work for it.

"Following the vote, the trustees immediately hired a firm to conduct an internal audit, including a review of contract bids and examination of records “in order to determine if any employee of Miami Twp. misused their authority for either monetary or non-monetary gains,” according to the contract."

That's funny. They all profit from stolen money, so they're all guilty of doing that.

"With Trustee Charlie Lewis absent, the trustees also approved a five-month, $7,000 contract with Strategic Public Partners, a Columbus-based firm, to help with public relations, and the six-month, $30,000 contract with consultant Mukesh Singh to audit the townships’ contracts and finances."

So now, because the government is so corrupt, they're going to steal more money from taxpayers to hire a public relations firm to fool people into believing they aren't that corrupt.

"Hanahan’s absence came to light in December when Nolan told a reporter covering a disciplinary hearing for DiPietro that the trustees were negotiating Hanahan’s resignation as a money-saving move."

So they're firing the guy to save money and because he doesn't show up, but...

"Trustees Mike Nolan and Deborah Preston voted 2-0 to terminate Administrator Greg Hanahan’s contract “effective immediately,” although he will be paid his salary for the rest of the year."

They're going to pay him the rest of the year even though they fired him. And guess how much he makes?

"Hanahan, who was paid $121,500 a year, plus $5,000 in deferred compensation and a $9,000 gas allowance, had been out of the office on accrued paid leave since Nov. 14."

Great work if you are willing to join the local super-mafia and steal money from your neighbors and order them around at the point of a gun. You don't even have to show up. Your enforcers will do all the dirty work.

"Residents have also taken sides over discussion of contracting with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office or creating a police district with an adjoining community, rather than funding an independent township police department following the rejection of a police levy by local voters."

Apparently locals are sick and tired of paying for local cops to strip their children naked and hose them down. Makes sense to me. They should abolish the whole government, not just the police force.

"Preston said the decision to terminate Hanahan was made between the township and Hanahan.
“It was a mutual parting of the ways,” said Preston."

I'm sure Hanahan just walked away from his high paying, absentee job. There's more to that story than is being reported. If these guys are serious about cleaning up local government, their only option is to abolish it. Every organization funded by theft and based on violence is corrupt. More on Dipietro's actions. He was alone with the girl when he hosed her down to decontaminate her from pepper spray. It was caught on surveillance cam.

"DiPietro has been deputy chief for 12 years. Before he rose to that position, he was part of two prior internal affairs investigations concerning misbehavior involving women. One of those investigations came after he and another officer each pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor."
"In 1993, DiPietro and another officer became the subjects of an internal investigation after each of them pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of trespassing, according to Dayton Daily News stories published that year. The two were accused of using a credit card to open the lock of an apartment inhabited by a female student at the Miami Twp. Police Academy after a December 1992 police association Christmas party, the Daily News reported.
DiPietro was fined, suspended without pay, had his salary docked $7,000 per year, was put on probation, ordered to perform 80 hours of community service and was demoted from sergeant to detective, the Daily News reported."

Had a non-government employee done this, you would go to jail. This guy gets off with a misdemeanor, keeps his police job and eventually gets promoted to Deputy Chief. It seems DiPietro climbed the ladder thanks to his political connections with MADD.

"In April 1996, the sheriff’s office finished a four-month investigation into the Miami Twp. Police Department, covering alleged misdeeds dating back 15 years, the Daily News reported. Examples included male officers shackling a female officer, an officer being “involved” with a female homicide suspect and an officer lying about taking a stereo from the property room."

So Miami Township police corruption is well known, ongoing problem.

"DiPietro, now re-promoted to sergeant, and two other officers were cited for improper conduct for “dating” or going to bars and other places with a prostitute while on duty. DiPietro admitted knowing that the woman “was a person with a reputation in the community for involvement in criminal behavior when he ‘dated’ her,” the report states. “He also admitted knowing that he and other police officers should not be watching a pornographic video … in the police station while on duty.”"

Ya think?

"Krug, a Dayton officer who led the internal affairs bureau, was hired to be Chief. DiPietro rose up the leadership ranks. He often appeared on local television news and also worked for a while as a part-time helicopter traffic reporter for Channel 7."

He also snuggled up with the media, not just MADD.

"Bruce Langos, Chief Operating Officer at Teradata, said he’s known DiPietro for about two years and serves with him on the board of the Humane Society of Greater Dayton.
“I find him pleasing to be around; he talks very ethically, behaves very ethically,” Langos said. “He plays a strong role in supporting businesses and residences in the Miami Twp. community … that’s a great thing to have.”"

This is a reminder that people who rise in power in government tend to be able to lie without conscience. More information from after the investigation.

"Miami Twp. Maj. John DiPietro committed six acts of improper conduct during and after the decontamination of a 17-year-old girl who had been pepper sprayed, including taking a photograph of her tattoo and sending that photo to a friend, according to the internal affairs report released Wednesday."

The report was 57 pages.

"The report offers several details that were previously undisclosed, including that the 17-year-old girl had been decontaminated twice by other officers before DiPietro took her to the sally port, that a woman officer was available but not called, and that DiPietro mentioned the incident to Krug the day it happened, but failed to say he was the one who took her to the sally port and that he did the decontamination."

It sounds like all the cops wanted to see this girl naked.

"As he left with his attorney, DiPietro, who is the deputy chief of the police department, said he was a victim of a conspiracy.
“I’ve served this agency for 26 years, I’ve done a great job,” DiPietro said. “What’s happened here is a conspiracy to me and we’ll deal with it when I come back.”"

This is what happens when somebody is singled out for corruption in a system drowning in corruption. He's just doing what he's always done and what all the other cops have always done. But he's being singled out, so he believes it's a conspiracy. He might be right. But his actions are still unethical and disgusting. He should have been fired after he broke into that woman's apartment in 1993. According to this story, the first two decontaminations sound legit. One was at by fire department at the scene of the arrest. She was dressed during the second at the police station. I have to say, the report makes this all sound less salacious though still unethical and slimy.

"There was a third person in the sally port, another girl doing community service who was washing a cruiser. As DiPietro spoke to her, the 17-year-old entered the sally port with another officer. She was wearing only a bra and underwear.
The 17-year-old told investigators that her face and lower back were burning at the time, and DiPietro told her to disrobe.
“He told me I could take all my clothes off,” she said. “I wasn’t going to take my clothes off, but since he recommended it…I was like, maybe if I wash my whole body with this soap, then my whole skin will stop burning.”
Asked about these comments, DiPietro denied that he recommended that she disrobe. In a written statement, DiPietro wrote “she took her top off and I told the community services worker to leave the area. I continued to hold the hose outward and to keep her at a distance.”
The other girl gave a written statement, in which she said that 17-year-old asked DiPietro if she could take her clothes off, and DiPietro responded “Do what you wanna do. It’s not like it’s anything we haven’t seen before.”
Asked about that, DiPietro told investigators “I don’t recall that statement,” then added “I have been doing this for 26 years. I’ve seen plenty of naked people. It is possible that I said that.”
DiPietro admitted he did nothing to stop the girl from disrobing and that he should have, the report said. He said he discovered the girl was a juvenile while she was showering in the sally port."

Three different points of view.

"Sheriff’s investigators wrote that Beatty did not believe the girl was in “obvious distress” after she was placed in the cell and “after watching the video recordings, there was no indication” that the girl was “in enough distress from the pepper spray to justify her being decontaminated for a fourth time.”"

So DiPietro thinks this guy is part of the conspiracy.

"There was a female officer present, Officer Nancy Strope who was on light duty. DiPietro said he declined to involve Strope during the decontamination because the girl had been combative during her arrest and DiPietro was concerned that Strope could get injured. Investigators noted that video footage showed that, at one point, Strope escorted the girl to a holding cell, and that DiPietro allowed Strope to interview Cooley."

Oops. Busted.

"After the girl was finished showering, DiPietro gave her small towels, usually used to clean vehicles, to dry herself. She was returned to the holding cell, covered only in those towels. A portion of the cell is glass and faces a room where employees could see her. The video recording showed that the towels did not adequately cover her."

OK. It just got super creepy again.

"“I look back at it now, and maybe somebody could have grabbed a blanket for her,” DiPietro told investigators."

Ya think? Then it gets even more creepy.

"About 15 minutes after he left the girl in the cell, DiPietro went to Leah O’Malley, the administrative assistant to Krug. O’Malley told investigators DiPietro asked her to make a DVD of what occurred in the sally port.
Shortly afterward, DiPietro came back to O’Malley’s office and said “Come here, you got to see this,” and took her to the room next to the holding cell, she told investigators.
“She had towels around her but she was butt naked,” O’Malley said. DiPietro told her to “look at this,” and O’Malley responded “John, I can’t unsee this,” and DiPietro said “I know” and walked away, according to her account.
O’Malley said she thought DiPietro was making light of the girl, the report said.
Later that day, O’Malley texted DiPietro and said “I didn’t know she was naked,” and DiPietro responded “I know…nasty.” O’Malley showed the text messages to investigators.
O’Malley said she made the DVD DiPietro requested, but she also made an additional copy and kept it, because she was concerned that the evidence would disappear, she told investigators.
Asked why he asked O’Malley to view the girl inside the cell, DiPietro said: “To explain what had happened and why I needed the video.”"

Here's what the chief's assistant had to say about corruption in the police department.

"“I’ve been here for 20 years and I have seen so much stuff happen,” said Leah O’Malley, Krug’s assistant who made a second copy of the video of the incident, in an interview with investigators. “And I knew what was going to happen with that. Nothing.”"

I'm sure DiPietro believes she's part of the conspiracy too.

"DiPietro has maintained his innocence and said in a statement released Thursday by his attorney, Richard Lipowicz, that he would be vindicated."

He also can't tell right from wrong, or at least he pretends he can't. The incident occurred on July 12. DiPietro continued to work until placed on administrative leave on Oct. 18.

"In 2000, he named DiPietro the deputy chief. DiPietro’s salary has risen from about $54,000 at that time to more than $84,000, according to township records."

Not bad.

"DiPietro continued developing a polished public persona and became one of the most well-known faces of local law enforcement. He has been honored by many organizations and received dozens of letters of thanks. It’s a persona that doesn’t match O’Malley’s characterization.
“I can prove that he does stuff and he gets away with it,” O’Malley told investigators. “If anyone else did that, we would be strung up and gone.”"

Exactly. She's a brave woman for saying so.

"When the girl was first brought into the station, another officer pointed out to DiPietro a tattoo on the girl’s lower back. DiPietro told investigators that he took a picture of that tattoo with his personal cellular phone, but the girl was at least partially clothed at the time. DiPietro also said he forwarded that photo to a female friend, but deleted it from his phone later that day."

I can't tell if he really thinks even this is OK or not.

"During an interview with investigators obtained by the Dayton Daily News, DiPietro said there was no reason to take the photo, but that it’s not uncommon: “I know it happens a lot with our officers. I don’t know that we have a policy on it or not, but certainly there probably needs to be a policy. It could be a policy failure on our part.”"

It's a common, degrading practice. It's a clear abuse of power.

"Two days later, the report said Krug received a phone call from Assistant Township Administrator Greg Rogers, who told him that administration officials had heard that people at a retirement party were discussing an incident in which DiPietro hosed down a naked girl in the sally-port, according to the report. Rogers asked Krug to investigate, Krug told investigators."

It's interesting the request for an investigation came from outside the department. None of the people who saw what happened said anything to the Chief.

"“Major DiPietro confirmed it is not common practice for Miami Township police officers to shower nude prisoners in the sally-port,” investigators wrote.
Reviewing the surveillance footage, O’Malley said she was shocked by what she had seen, adding “in all my time that has never happened.”"

If it's not commonplace, they must have been afraid of DiPietro.

"In an interview in the closed criminal investigation file, O’Malley told investigators DiPietro is the public face of the department.
“He is representing what we are, what we have worked for,” O’Malley told investigators, adding that there have been other times that DiPietro didn’t follow procedure.
“The truth never comes out,” she said. “The truth is always hidden,” O’Malley told investigators."

Brave woman. DiPietro fired.

"On Oct. 19, Krug placed DiPietro on paid administrative leave — which was superceded by Family and Medical Leave Act time at the request of Lipowicz. That’s when Krug received a 57-page internal affairs report citing six inappropriate actions concerning DiPietro’s actions during the decontamination of the girl, including taking a photo of one of the girl’s tattoos and sending it to a friend, allowing the girl to undress during the decontamination and failing to submit proper reports until ordered to by Krug."

Taxpayers have paid this guy since the incident. How does one just magically receive family and medical leave time instead?

"DiPietro, who has applied for a medical disability pension, had alleged a “conspiracy” and predicted he would be vindicated."

I guess he hurt himself while hosing her down.

"Before the disciplinary hearing resumed Wednesday DiPietro and his attorney said they were disappointed that township administrator Greg Hanahan would not be testifying.
“Since he has left the township, the attorney for the township said they would issue a subpoena for him — the township does have power subpoenas in these type of employment discipline matters,” Lipowicz said, though township officials said Hanahan was still technically an employee. “I was kind of chagrined to learn, only yesterday, that Mr. Hanahan will not be here again and the township reneged on its offer to issue a subpoena to him.”
Lipowicz would not elaborate on Hanahan’s connection to the case. Nolan has previously said Hanahan’s reported negotiated buyout was not connected to DiPietro’s situation."

It sounds like the deal the township made with Hanahan is they would allow him to just walk away as long as he didn't show up to testify about DiPietro. What is going on here? More evidence of a conspiracy. Turmoil in Miami Township.

"Former Deputy Police Chief John DiPietro was fired this week, as residents took sides over the future of the police department. Administrator Greg Hanahan and Police Chief Chris Krug remain on leave, leaving a staff — also decimated by the loss of two key administrative assistants in the past month — and a divided board of trustees to run the township."

Something is rotten in Miami Township.

"In August 2011, Nolan asked the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office for legal advice because he claimed Preston secretly recorded an executive session and was using privileged information to help opponents in an election. Preston admitted recording the meeting but said she did not share any of it."

The corruption starts at the top.

"The township’s top administrators have been out for months. Hanahan, who earns $121,500 a year, plus $5,000 in deferred compensation and a $9,000 gas allowance, has been out of the office on accrued paid leave since Nov. 14."

That's the same day that the DiPietro report was made public and the first day of his hearing.

"Krug, who earns $94,328, is expected to remain on medical leave until at least March due to knee replacement surgery."

That's not bad money either.

"Hired by Miami Twp. in 2002, Hanahan retired and was rehired as a contractor in 2005. Trustee Charles Lewis was the only member on the board at the time. Preston was fiscal officer."

He must be drawing a pension in addition to his salary.

"Last March, the township paid RG $1,544 after the Dayton Daily News revealed Nolan and Hanahan flew in May 2011 with RG President Randy Gunlock to visit an arena like one Gunlock and the township was considering developing in Miami Twp.
Ohio ethics law prohibits public officials from accepting travel from companies or individuals involved in business with the local government, according to Paul Nick, executive director of the Ohio Ethics Commission.
Nolan said he went after consulting Hanahan, also a German Twp. trustee and a past president of the Ohio Township Association.
“That was a very quick call,” Hanahan said at the time. “It wasn’t a golf trip or something. It was work.”
At the time, Hanahan said he was looking out for the township’s best interest. “I know what’s right in my heart,” he said. “I’d rather not spend the township’s dollars.”
The turmoil has turned some residents like Harrington against the township.
“They don’t have the interest of the general populace at heart. I think there’s a rotten fish in the kettle somewhere,” Harrington said."

More corruption. So Hanahan would rather not spend township dollars. Then how come he drawing a salary and a pension? More on Hanahan.

"The township administrator, Greg Hanahan, has been on accrued paid leave since Nov. 14 while in negotiations over his contract. In December, Nolan confirmed Hanahan planned to leave his position a year before his contract expires."

It sure is suspicious that this coincides exactly with the DiPietro hearing.

Here's part of the county commissioners' economic plan.

"The County Commissioners also plan to increase ED/GE funds from $2 million to $2.5 million in 2013, with a $1 million designated to support small businesses."

They're going to take more than $2.5 million out of the economy, waste bunch of it on themselves and bureaucrats, then inject $2.5 million back into the economy, and they want us to believe that benefits us. It doesn't. It can't.