The appeal hearing for Officer Jason Gross has been continued and will reconvene Monday, September 26, 2011 at 6:30pm.
During yesterday's meeting both Minerva Park and Jason Gross' legal counsel presented their evidence and called all their witnesses.
The conclusion of the hearing is expected to contain a summary from both parties and likely a ruling from council.
More to follow.
holy schmokes. that was almost a useless meeting for J.G. his att. sure sounded like they had it in the bag. general rule one is certainly something else.
ReplyDeleteso while your waiting on a response from another jurisdiction, your suspect is running red lights and swerving all over the place harming people in their way, all you can do is follow until you get clearance to stop them. hmmmm. Justice of the Peace, or mother may i make peace. enuff said.
I would have to say that I was not impressed with the chief's testimony. She seemed unsure at times and her General Rule policy is not in the best interest of public safety. I also found it interesting that the mayor allowed herself to preside over this hearing considering she also gave testimony as a witness. Cpl Fenstimaker...shame on you, sir!
ReplyDeleteOfficer JG - 01, Village - 00. Looking forward to Monday!!!
Before you pass judgment upon a police officer for doing his/her job...you should walk in their shoes and know all the facts. I think there are WAY too many 'experts' who are passing judgment upon the current officers in the department. Learn all of the facts!!!
ReplyDeleteIf Minerva Park Officials and Officers could give all the facts readily we wouldn't have a lot of the resentment and issues that we have now.
ReplyDeleteCare to share any facts we (as in the public at large/taxpayers/certain council members) are missing out on?
Seems to me there is one officer who needs to be either terminated or transferred out of Minerva Park. his attitude towards many has been an issue with alot of residence. i for one have had to deal with his attitudes and nonchalonce about many issues around here. he has also been very markedly harsh with his dealings with other patrolmen in his care. As far as Nuesse goes,i just dunno. she seemed very pissy about being questioned and the inquisition about her being terminated should have been admissable!!! It definately says alot about her character...
ReplyDeleteIn Sandusky where your chief was fired. The judge said she had a managment style of half truths and out right lies.
ReplyDeleteDuring the hearing when Officer Fenstermaker was asked about surreptitious recording and if it he did it on his own or if it was Chief Nuesse's idea, and under oath he testified it was both.
ReplyDeleteWhen Chief Nuesse was asked if Fenstermaker kept her appraised and if she knew he was using deceptive tactics and secret recordings, under oath she testified she found out after the fact.
It seems one of these two Minerva Park Officers are lying under oath. Nuesse was part of a similar conflict of testimony with two separate officers in Sandusky which each separately testified she ordered them to secretly record someone and under oath she claims she did not. That can be verified by reviewing a court decision in which the firing of Nuesse was upheld because she failed to display absolute honesty.
Her management style was one of half truths and outright lies! That says it all!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Officer Jason Gross on his win against the mayor and return to work. It's a shame that he has to return to that type of environment. He and his fellow officers deserve better than an incompetent mayor, leaderless chief and derelict lieutenant.
ReplyDeleteI hope that all of the residents in Minerva Park realize that most of the veteran officers have either left voluntarily or been fired for absolutely no reason. I am speaking from experience when it comes to this police department. Lynn Eisentrout has destroyed this police department!! She is a control freak who hates men which is where most of this has come from. She tried to get the former chief to fire officers she did not like and when he refused because they were good officers, she forced him to resign for absolutely no other reason. The only reason Chief Nuesse was hired was because her background was so horrible that Lynn Eisentrout could use that against her in forcing her to fire the officers that the former chief would not or risk being fired herself. In a nutshell, this police department was once a great department and great place to work before Lynn Eisentrout took office. Now, needless to say, it is the laughing stock of Central Ohio. There are still some good officers there. Officer Gross is a phenomenal police officer and Minerva Park is lucky to have him. The good officers will definitely not stay around any longer if Lynn Eisentrout is reelected!!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, Officer Gross stopped a breaking and entering in progress at the Yasmin Market on Cleveland Avenue last night. He's been back less than two weeks, and already stopped a Breaking and Entering!!! This is the type of exemplary police work that Lynn Eisentrout and Chief Nuesse wanted to get rid of. Officer Gross should be commended, but instead, will probably be disciplined in some way for something that the Chief and Mayor try to make up.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the funny thing is that this is Officer Gross' third or fourth day back in uniform. Chief Nuesse got rid of all of his uniforms when she and Lynn tried to fire him for no reason and now the village has been paying for two officers to work in the same cruiser since they did not have any uniforms for him. At least now, he is in a partial uniform (no patches signifying Minerva Park). Way to go Officer Gross!! Hopefully the voters will decide in November to get rid of the mayor and hopefully the new mayor will replace Chief Nuesse!!!
Congrats to Officer Gross! Watch out, she will look for revenge and a liar will do anything.
ReplyDeleteGood job, Jason on stopping the B&E in progress the other night!! Minerva Park residents are lucky to have you patrolling their streets and you deserve better leadership. Keep up the excellent work!!
ReplyDeleteGood job officer gross! As a resident of huron county i have been watching this case closely, one of which involved your case. I can only hope that the residents of Minerva Park wake up and realize that your new chief is nothing but a liar and was caught doing alot of the things up here that she is now doing to Minerva Park officers. You would think the residents would see this. But my understanding is most of them have no clue what is going on. When a police chief tells her officers not to make omvi arrests that's a serious safety issue. From what i can see Minerva Park sits right in the middle of high crime on all sides and the residents deserve a police chief that is going to back her officers and make sure crime and drunks and drugs stay out of Minerva Park. Good luck to all,hope you all come together on election day and get some new blood in office thats not afraid to get rid of some bad blood that came from huron county .
ReplyDeleteThanks,
proud Huron County
resident
You have support Officer Gross. That chief is a liar and someone that you better never turn your back to. She should be fired.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone do a background check on the chief when they hired her. Her BIO page on the Minerva Park website is full of lies. Do a search and read about all her domestic issues with her husband.
ReplyDeleteNobody did a background check on her other than the Mayor, so in other words, none was done. The Mayor didn't care about her background. They were both supposedly abused by their husbands and that's all Lynn needed to hear in order to hire her. They just hired a new officer that was failed the first time he went through the background under the prior chief and with the new chief, and now that Fenstermaker is a Lieutenant, he is pushing his buddies through that can't pass background checks and have been fired from other departments.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for the good officers of Minerva Park. Where your chief has been, she left a wake of destruction. Keep up the fight, she can be beaten. It has happened before.
ReplyDeleteSO DO I. THEY ARE TRAINED TO SERVCE AND PROTECT.
ReplyDeleteBUT THE NEW CHIEF JUST WANTS THEM TO DRIVE AROUND AND LOOK PRETTY. WAKE UP. IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE 2 CHOICES, YOU CAN EITHER SHUT UP (WHICH IT LOOKS LIKE MOST OF YOU HAVE) OR YOU CAN VOTE ON TUES AND MAKE CHANGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK SURE HOPE THE SURROUNGING AREAS DON'T HEAR ABOUT THIS THEY WILL HAVE A FIELD DAY, JUST HOPE NO ONE GETS SHOT IN A DRIVE-BY OR HOME INVASION OR HURT BY A DRUNK DRIVER( COULD POSSIBLY BE A FAMILY MEMBER OR CLOSE FRIEND) JUST SAYING !!!!!!!!!!!
Change is exactly what is needed. A new mayor and new chief. God willing the people will vote for change.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone see that Kim Nuesse lost her appeal with the sixth district court of appeals. She stays fired from the Sandusky Police Department for being a liar!!!!
ReplyDeleteAll you need to do is pull up the Sandusky Register and read it for yourself. It,s there, all 30 pages from the Sixth Appellate Court, Hopefully the residents of MP will read this and ask for Chief Nuesse resignation. It shows that she is not a truthful or honest person as we have been trying to get the point across, and has come down to MP and continued to do the same, at the expense of officiers from MP,who have either been terminated or quit because of her dealings. Please people wake up, what else is she not being truthful about. You need a Chief that is going to work with the officiers to make MP a safe place to live, not be un truthful and honest and then throw them under the bus to protect herself, worked for awhile here in Sandusky, lets not let her get away with it in MP From a proud Erie County resident
ReplyDeleteJustice has finally been served
I think whats funny is when "veteran" officers can't adapt to change and when they are given a new set of rules (that are lawful)and they up and quit to go elsewhere so they can be with "buddies and friends" who will all sit around and complain about how bad their former chief was. So long and I'm sure the residents won't miss you. And by the way, if the Ohio AG or BCI were to actually see how some things were ran with "previous administrations" then some of these "verteran officers" would most likely be carrying a flashlight as opposed to a firearm.
ReplyDeleteHer management style was one of half truths and out right lies!!! This is from the judge!!!
ReplyDeleteSounds as if you are trying to blame all of the current problems on previous administrations, still had the same mayor, so if there was all of this going on, why didn't the mayor step in, and make changes instead of hiring a chief that came with as much baggage as Santa does. Sounds like MP has lots of administration problems, past and present. At least Erie County had the right people in place, who didn't let things go by, they put a stop to it. It took them awhile but they got her out as I think you the residents of MP. need to do. Just by reading all of these blogs, sounds like the problems started way back before Nuesse arrived. Your mayor has been around awhile and sounds like she half-a-- does alot, no paperwork, a council that does what she wants them to do. Of course the mayor hired Nuesse and the council approved her, like they were told to do. So maybe you should sit down and read all of the blogs for this year, then read all 30 pages and then see if you can put the blame on more than one person, instead of throwing officers under the bus who are no longer employed with MP. Lots of blame to go around, oh but thats how the mayor and the chief seem to work, blame it on everyone else but themselves. Above statement, don't even have to read between the lines.
ReplyDeleteHappy resident from Erie County
For anyone that can 'read between the lines' on how political corruption is so rampent up along the lake, it doesn't surprise me one bit on how Chief Nuesse was railroaded and ran out of town by a good-ole-boy group of corrupt politicians and judges. She's made a significant improvement to our police department and has weeded out at least two bad apples that were derelict in their duties as it was specified in the Villager. It's a shame on how residents can gripe and complain about the Chief's past, but can't see what progress and improvement she has made to the department. I for one stand with her!
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds like the bad apples could be the mayor and the chief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The only thing I see she has done is turned MP into a circus because of her mis-truths
ReplyDeleteI think that I could have believed that story about the "good-ole-boy group" had she done something positive with her clean slate at Minerva Park. She placed two officers under felony investigation within a few days of starting and tried to fire almost every officer at Minerva Park. Except for the one that kisses her ass and lies for her. That one she promoted to Lieutenant!!! The officers under felony investigation were cleared of wrongdoing by an outside agency and then Chief Nuesse miraculously discovers "new evidence" that she never bothered to share at the beginning of the investigation. Luckily, even the outside agency knew she was lying and cleared the officers of any wrongdoing. Chief Nuesse is a liar. Plain and simple. It's obvious she is the one posting the comments above. Kim, have it. Post away. Unfortunately for you, but extremely fortunate for everyone else, nobody in their right mind would ever believe you!!! That's the problem when you have no integrity and have a reputation for being truthful that is on par with Casey Anthony's.
ReplyDeleteHer management style is one of half truths and outright lies!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHey all you MP residents, come join us in Erie County, cause we're "all dancing in the streets" Now we have a new Chief of Police, we didn't waste any time. We as residents, hope sooner better than later you can get your problems solved and MP can get back to a village, worthy of a safe enviroment,a council that has back bone, to stand up for what they believe in, instead of puppets that due as they are told. The residents need to be able to communicate when there's a problem.They should not be afraid to speak {3 minutes) and expect honesty and respect when they speak. If I'm not mistaken the residents make sure you are all paid, so lets show them the respect they deserve. You have to admit if they were able to speak about the things that are going on in the village maybe you wouldn't need these blogs. This is the only way they can vent, afraid to in person, cause who knows what will happen to them. Good Luck
ReplyDeleteI hear there is a big party scheduled to celebrate another victory over Nuesse. Sad to see another agency stuck with her. But better MP then Sandusky!!!
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