Tales of Woe
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Your website is quite interesting as well as amusing, not to mention informative!! I am rather new to Ohio, however, I am not new to dealing with the law.  I am from Davidson County North Carolina.  In case you aren't aware, this is where Sheriff Gerald Hege(Live from Cell Block F) enforces his brand of justice.  At least he is legitimate, and has done a lot for the
county.  Although, sometimes it was a hassle on Friday and Saturday nights to get from one end of the county to the other with the road blocks.  Anyway, I have a few stories of my own to share about New Rome.  First of all, I am in New Rome(undisclosed location) from 4-8 hours per week.  While being paranoid, I listen to a police scanner.  I listen to the
officers call in plates NON STOP the whole time.  It is amusing to hear them get SO frustrated when multiple plates in a row come back with no discrepancies.  I remember once I heard an officer say,(in an I need a drink voice), "Alright, I'll keep tryin'." after running numerous clean plates.Next, my boyfriend was leaving the undisclosed location to go to the BP for cigs and soda.  It was rush hour so he decided to go the back way instead of taking Broad St.  An officer pulled into the BP and questioned why he chose to go the back way.  My boyfriend politely told the officer why and returned to the undisclosed location.  The officer then proceeded to sit across the road from us for @20 minutes.  We suppose he was hoping we would "go the
back way" again and do something so he could write a ticket.  And last, a friend of ours was visiting New Rome and was harassed for tucking in his shirt.  The officer accused him of urinating on the street.  I do have a question.  We have noticed the officers in New Rome parked right along Broad St. without any lights or markers on after dark.  Is this legal?   Isn't it dangerous?  Any of us sure as hell would get a ticket for doing the same, even with a legitimate reason.  I hope your situation works out.  After all is said and done, I hope you keep your website active because something should be done about New Rome, and until the public takes notice and makes noise, nothing will be done.

Love your graphics!!!!  You should sell actual bumper stickers and shirts etc.(just warn customers not to go through New Rome sporting any novelties....they would get a ticket no doubt)

Take care,
Sophie

Jim says:

Speaking of scanner!  Here are the code if you want to tune into your favorite West Side Story.

FREQUENCY     DESCRIPTION
155.3700              NEW ROME VILLAGE OF
453.9250              NEW ROME CITY OF
458.9250              NEW ROME CITY OF

There were sent in by several people.  Your story sounds all to familiar.  I am looking into making stickers to pass out!  Keep an eye out!


Hey a friend I  know got a ticket in new rome for speeding several years ago.  A friend of his [ an attorney] told him just to go to court in new rome, you know the kangaroo court or Mayor's court it has many names  He told  my friend to plead guilty  and ask for a  lessor charge that had no points involved on the license. They gladly did this  I guess the Attorney was right
all the court was interested was the money, they reduced it to a non moving violation and still charged for the speeding violation
The biggest issue is the fact that we were NOT SPEEDING we knew the town too well!!  But you can't beat City Hall  HA!!! bet me LETS DO IT!!!!!! LETS ROLL!!!!

Jim say:

I'm sure they would reduce any charge as long as they get their money.  It's not about justice.  It's about making more money!


hi my name is vera I am 50 years old I got 3 tickets in new sucks as new rome that total $550.00  all were none moving violations. first no seat belt but he also check my tinted windows cause he thought it might be to dark I ask him how he could see if  i had a seat  belt on if my windows were to dark so he let that go. Next i forgot my ins. card so i was fined in court
for not having it at the time of the ticket. Also I had a cracked winshield that i was fined for.  PS does not restrict my vision All 3 tickets $550.00 I have since learned  something you might be interested in When ever you are stopped in stinking crookville go to court and plead not guilty i don,t care if its for a jaywalking ticket it will be transfered downtown and you will get a franklin county judge and it will be cheaper I also saw that chapman asshole let a guy off cheap with lesser charge for a high fine they are nothing  but theives hiding behind the law . When i was fine for speeding in franklin county and didn;t have my card the fine or ticket was drop in court when i produce my proof of ins. Anyone who would defended new rome cops are stupid  ass holes. I had to pay my tickets i baby sit my grand daughter and could not take the chance of being pick up with a child. I work hard for my money i clean dirty apartments for a living i don,t get to sit in air condition and earn thousands of dallors off poor people in the name of the law. these people belong in jail or a good dose of their own medicine. thanks for letting me vent

Jim says:

Vent all you like Vera!  That's why we're here!  You know, I did plead innocent and they didn't transfer my case.  They were nice and let me plead guilty to a non-moving violation.  Wasn't that nice of them?  Bastards.


I had just move to the area in October.  Mid December I headed through New Rome to the gas station.  I got pulled over because of no front plate.  It was a new car so the plates weren't transferred over yet--grace period.  They took me "to the station" to verify my story.  I was soon arrested for not wearing glasses, a restriction put on three weeks prior.  They threatened to impound my tags and keep me in jail.  I had to pay a $500 bond for them to let me go.  I soon learned to detour around New Rome.
 
Dave
 

Jim says:

We like to think of them as our welcoming committee.  he he he  Little anti New Rome humor there.  Arrested for not wearing glasses eh?  Wow.  What do you do if you lose them at work and need to get home?  This is a new one though!  Never heard of someone in trouble for that.  Of course it doesn't suprise me.  No wonder Jamie parks outside of New Rome and walks in.


It's me again. I wanted to share this with you:
When my episode of terrorism occurred, I contacted the State Attorney, the Lt. Governor, and the FBI. ALL THREE departments acknowledged my e-mail, and though there isn't much that can be done legally at this point, they all sent official letters to New Rome, informing them that an abuse complaint had been made against them. ALSO,my daughter and I went to the New Rome station and filled out complaint forms against Lt. Kerr, Officer "Humpty" and Officer "Dumpty." These forms never made their way into any of the officers files.  New Rome tosses these in the trash. I also want to point out that Betty
Montgomery really can't do anything at this time, but she WAS sympathetic to my cause and promptly sent the letter from her department to New Rome.  The problem is that there is no federal or state review board for law enforcement officials (as there are for physicians, lawyers, etc.). Each district is supposed to address complaints against themselves. How foolish is that? You have to go to the officers who abused and terrorized you to complain about their abuse and terrorism.  I sincerely believe that there should be a mandated State Board of Ethics & Investigation for Law Enforcement Misconduct, which would have authority over ALL DISTRICTS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE STATE. I don't know how people go about getting something like that incorporated, but it is something that needs to be done. Abuse of law enforcement power is a problem in every state in the union, and this is one area "Big Brother" needs to force every state to have a governing body for law enforcement abuse.

later, have a great day,

-patsy-

Patsy,

I agree something need put in place to keep these types of things in check.  A big department can manage it's own complaints, but New Rome and other small places don't have anyone monitoring them.  I'm sure when they get those letters they sit round and laugh about them.


Here is a perfect example of how "great" New Rome is. This is not only my T.O.W, but also a responce for dear Nick the peacemaker. (I'll bet he isn't somehow linked to the wonderful law enforcement of New Rome.) My husband and I were leaving my shop that I had above the barber shop in New Rome. As we pulled out of the parking lot a New Rome officer started to follow us.(Big surprise) He pulled us over but refused to tell us what for. As he was entering our information on his handy little computer in his car, I called my mother from my cell phone. Knowing how New Rome is, I asked her if she would
come and get my two year old son that was with us. This was a very cold Feburary night. When my mother came to get him I stepped out of the car to get my son out. As I stepped out of the car the officer, who we call Humpty, told my mother to leave and told me to get back in the car. Humpty told my mom to "Leave my crime scene." What a joke. Anyways, my mom told him that she would go wait across the street until we were finished. (She was still trying to get my son out of the car) In a flash so quick Mr. Humpty grabbed me and threw me against the cruiser, put my hands behind my back and cuffed me. I kept asking him why he was doing this and finally after he had me in the back of the cruiser he told me that I was going to jail because I took a swing on an officer. HELLO, I WAS NO WHERE NEAR THE OFFICER UNTIL HE CUFFED ME!!!!! At
this time Humpty's twin brother, yes really his twin brother, who we call Dumpty, arrived at the "scene" and brutally arrested my ill of health mother. Dumpty put her in the back of his cruiser then went to get my husband who through this whole ordeal said nothing, did nothing, just sat in the car. He grabbed my husband out of the car, threw him on the ground, jammed his knee
into his back and handcuffed him. He looked at another officer that was there and said "Is this right? I did not do anything?" Humpty and Dumpty put my husband in the cruiser with me and when they did I asked Humpty if I could call my sister to come and get my son because it was so cold outside and he has serious heart condition that too much time in the cold could be deadly for him. Keep in mind that the whole time this transpired my boy was sitting in the back seat of the car with no heat, crying, terrified and soaking wet because the cops frightened him so bad that he pee'd his pants. And after they took my husband from the car he was alone! Humpty told me that my sister could not come and get him because I assulted an officer and he was going to go to Children Services and put in a foster home. I was terrified, this sorry excuse of a human being was going to use his position of power and take my son away. And who would believe me over a cop? After this my father showed up and talked Humty into letting him take my son to his house and get him a change of clothes. Humpty told my father that he would have to bring my son to the police station where he would be taking us, after he got my son changed.lf my father did not do this they would come after him. So they finally took us to the New Rome Cubicle, a.k.a New Rome police station, and
my father brought my son back. My little baby had to see his mother, father, and grandmother handcuffed to chairs and benches. He was so scared. All of this because these officers wanted to show their "power." Humpty finally called the Lt. (I won't list his name but I am sure we all know who he is.)   Lt. told him to give all of us tickets and set a court date. Humpty looked in a big three ring binder and said to me and I quote, "What am I going to charge you with? There are so many choices." This binder he had was a list of different kinds of charges. He finally settled on three, none of which were
the reason for us being pulled over. Finally, with all of us getting our tickets and paying our fines, we went home. When my court date came up I requested a change of venue, any one can do this, got a court appointed attourny and went to my first court date in Franklin County. It was continued and New Rome hired themselves and attourney. This was before they hired him permanetly. I refused to plea bargain because I did nothing wrong, my attourney got it thrown out for something wrong with the paper work. New Romes lawyer said he was going downstairs to re-file it. I just looked at him and smiled. They never re-filled and I got all of my money back!! Too bad New Rome, you lost that one. In the end it ended up costing them money, not me!!
They did not get one dime from me. I could have cut this story short but I wanted to put the whole morbid thing down so jerks like Nick can see the real truth. Nick, I hope you read this because I am curious how you will defend this one!! Shana

Jim says:

I can only say I am very sorry they treated you this way Shana.  It's horrible and makes me sick.  I hoe when they get shut down, you get some sort of satisfaction that they won't be able to do it again.


I have to wonder how a bar and a adult book store could survive in New Rome.Who in there right mind would drink there and drive or walk out of town?
In my opinion the adult book store is too close to a public school.You have kids walking to Westland High School.they pass the store which is surrounded by a privacy fence were men (and im sure some women)look at different forms of pornography.Its an accident waiting to happen.But yet the people going 42 mph get the $100.00 plus ticket.You have to wonder who is getting paid off!
A friend of mine got pulled over in the 80's and charged with OMVI and having a small amount of marijuana.You would think he would be cooked over a hot fire,WRONG.He hired a lawyer,paid $800.00 fine no jail time.Sounds to me it more profitable for them to keep Franklin County Courts out of it and pocket the money.I had the privilege to talk to the lawyer and asked how he did it,he said he didn't know,They must like me.No the lawyer isnt in with New Rome,He's my father.In his 40 years of law he only had 2 cases in New Rome.He also told me the first case was like the second.
I hope the new mayor can help the village but sometimes he sounds a little wishy washy.
Until they do away with the whole system it will always be a problem.

Jim says:

It's all about the money!  I doubt there is much you can do in New Rome that money can't get you out of.


Jim:
I started an e-mail to you earlier about my story and it disappeared. So I gotta start all over...It's a long story, but I will condense it best as I can:

Two years ago, my daughter and I rented a second floor apartment from Ed  Anthony to convert into a business site. The apartment is in a building owned  by Ed Anthony, who has a business on the first floor "Ed's Barber Shop."  (There is also a Tattoo shop and an English Language business in the  building.) We spent a lot of money renovating the slummy apartment to make it  presentable as a business location. Then we opened for business. And we got . . . no business. Duh, stupid us, renting a location on W. Broad Street, right  in the middle of New Rome... there's not many people willing to enter New  Rome for any reason . . . Well, since we had signed a year's lease with the  Ed the Barber, we knew we had to just stick it out for a year.

One night in February, my daughter had a customer who was brave enough to  enter the New Rome kingdom to get a manicure. After she was finished with her  client, my daughter closed the shop. Because the roads and sidewalks were
very icy and the weather extremely cold, my daughter called her husband to pick her up. He bundled up their 2-year-old son and went to pick my daughter up.

I was at home, reading a book, when my daughter 2-way paged me. "Mom, the New Rome cops have us pulled over a block from the shop. It is so cold, please come and get the baby."

I left immediately. We only live three blocks away, so I was there in a flash, or maybe two. I parked behind the New Rome cop car and walked up to my daughter's car. She got out and started to open the back door to get her son out when the cop grabbed her and asked her what she was doing. She told him her baby has heart problems and that I was there to take him home. This cop, who weighed about 350 lb. and looked like a pig in tight cop clothes, pushed her away from the door and told her he was in control and her kid wasn't going anywhere unless he said so. And, he said, the kid might end up at Children Services cause he (the pig) could have the baby sent there. I pleaded with him to let me take the baby out of the cold and he absolutely refused and said he was going to arrest me for interfering with an officer.

Now, to condense things better, I'm just going to list some of the things these pigs did to us (the chronology will not be exactly right, but you will get the picture):

1. Pig 1 radioed Pig 2 (who was his identical twin brother - 2 pigs in tight cop clothes)
2. Pig 1 shoved my daughter up against a building and twisted her arm behind her back as she was sobbing for her baby.
3. Pig 2 grabbed me and started shoving me. I informed him that I was a 52-year-old grandmother, suffering from emphysema, could he please not be so rough as I had almost fallen the first time he shoved me.
4. Pig 1 threw my daughter into his cop car, and then he and Pig 2 had a "conference" with each other.
5. Pig 2 came to his car, jerked open the door and said to me "You f---ing bitch, who do you think you are taking a swing at my partner. I don't care who you are, or where you live, bitch, you aint gettin' away with this." He slammed my door and walked back over to Pig 1. They "conferred" again.
6. Pig 2 came back to his car again, jerked the door open again, and said "Get out now and walk to the rear of this vehicle." I was TERRIFIED. I moved to the middle of the seat (there was a young bi-racial girl in the back seat also, so I moved close to her). I asked him, "Are you going to hurt me?" I actually whimpered the question. No one understands the terror I felt at that
time. I TRULY believed that he was going to beat on me, then claim I swung at him and resisted arrest. Again he said, GET OUT. Shaking uncontrollably, I got out of the cruiser and walked to the back. Pig 2 said, "My partner just informed me it was your daughter who took a swing at him, not you." Now, I knew for a fact that my daughter hadn't taken a swing at anyone. I (stupidly) told him that she did not do that. He shoved me back into the cruiser.
7. Then Pig 2 opened my son-in-law's car door, and for no reason at all, jerked him out of the car, threw him to the ground, and planted his fat foot in my son-in-law's back. "That's what you get for resisting an officer" Pig 2 said. BUT...my son-in-law had been sitting quietly in his car - he was driving under suspension and didn't want to do anything to attract the officers' attention! Pig 2 was just proving his point.
8. By this time, we realized that we were being terrorized and we had better play the game. Everything from then on was "Yes, SIR", Sir, Sir, Sir..... we pretended an air of respect and went along with the rest of the games they played with us the next few hours.
9. We had to sit and listen to Pig  1 tell us how much smarter he was than Lt. Kerr; he referred to Lt. Kerr as the "village idiot" and referred to the mayor as the "village drunk". We watched as Pig 1 leafed through some book, trying to figure out what to "charge" us with. I had been handcuffed to a bench and was having a panic attack. Pig 1 took off the handcuffs. Pig 2 put
them right back on. We were told how our arrest had prevented Pig 1 and Pig 2 from getting off work in time to "down some suds" and meet up with their girlfriends. (Yeh, right.)

I just can't begin to tell you all the crap that went on. I will never be able to convey the horror and fear I felt, believing that I was going to be brutally beaten, worrying about my daughter and grandson.

And back to Ed the Barber . . . when we told Ed about what had happened, he said that the mayor was a friend of his, and he would tell him to make it disappear. I was shocked. I said I didn't want it to disappear. I wanted justice and truth. Ed smirked and said "Good luck." When my daughter told Ed how afraid I was, he LAUGHED. He said he offered his help and I refused, so tuff shit. Needless to say, we moved out, breaking our lease, but the rent was paid a month ahead. Ed the Barber has a judgement against me, causing a lien against my home, but I will never him the remainder of my lease. He is as cold and devious as his New Rome buddies are. And to think he and his wife have the nerve to say they want to get on the New Rome council to help clean the place up? They've slept with the enemy too long, and everyone that knows them knows their history of friendship with the New Rome mayor, council and cops. We don't want to get rid of swine, just to bring in different swine.

Jaime Mueller IS THE MAN. (I've never met him personally, but he has to be a hell of a guy to tackle New Rome.)

Patsy

Jim says:

Wow Patsy.  I am very sorry that all this happened.  Did you talk to a Lawyer about this?  This should not go unchecked!  I don't even know what to say.  It's just horrible and I hope you get satisfaction some day.  Patsy included the following picture of Jamie to make a t-shirt iron on supporting him!







Editors Note: Names have been blocked out where other than personal experience is known.

Jim;
I was a victim of the New Rome "terrorists". A bunch of pig bullies with badges who can do whatever they want to, and they made that really clear to me. I am going to post my story on your site.  As for those "hate" messages you received - one of the new rome pigs wrote them - there is no doubt in my mind. "Nick" is probably that stupid Lt ####.
I am sending you a pic I scanned of the rightful mayor, Jamie Mueller. I am going to make an iron-on transfer and put it on a t-shirt with the words "The Mayor that's Fair".  I think it would be cool if a lot of us made T-shirts with the REAL mayor's
pic and then gather on Broad Street, right before the New Rome "city" limits.  Maybe make some placards, etc. Let me know if you want to get something like this going.
Also, I went to the ""Mayor's Court" and had my case transferred to Columbus.  After a terrible experience with an attorney named Dennis Evans (warn everyone to stay away from him) I contacted a black, female attorney name of Mary Torian. This lady is IT! She is awesome. She took one look at my charges, immediately spotted a number of mistakes, and had everything
dropped. I highly recommend her. She is fair and really on the ball.  I will keep in touch with you, and if there is anything at all I can help you  in your endeavor to clean up the filth on W. Broad St. let me know.  OH, and by the way, that little story in Mike Harden's column about the barber ## ####### and his scum wife, that is a JOKE. They have slept with the enemy for years. They are friends with the mayor, with Lt. ####, and with most of the so-called officers. It is really scary thinking THEY might end up on the New Rome Council.

Patsy

Jim says:

Shirts would be great!  I am looking into a company that prints shirts to see what it would cost and see if anyone here would like to buy them.  I would wear a shirt that promotes New Romes downfall.

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