My husband and I were pulled over by new rome's idiots on Galloway Rd. on our way to pick up our son after a football game. It was later than usual, but Westland had just beaten our arch rival (Grove City) and the celebrations went later than usual.

For all of you from our area, new rome's idiots waited until we were on Galloway road to pull us over. They claimed that we had ran a red light in new rome.

My husband and I have never ran a red light, nor have had any traffic violations between the 2 of us. We were in no hurry to get to Westland, nor were we sleepy.

We both know that we had not ran any red lights. Look, we NEVER do or ever have. Yet this creep from new rome followed us into Galloway and then pulled us over. Remember, on the way to pick up our son after a football game.

I will never do business with anyone in new rome,and I have no need to ever use that part of Broad Street ever again.

And just to add a twist, I'll never go to that Wendy's either.

Surely someone with either money or power will finally get rid of that ridiculous strip of route 40.

I was once pulled over in New Rome for not having my back windshield defrosted enough. My son was followed home we do not live in New Rome. I went outside to check on my sons well being. The officer showed extreme disrespect and began ordering me into my home. If this police department is in existence to enforce the law, why is all that is accomplished is traffic violations. New Rome has no other crime? Since when do police departments only work till early morning? I do not object to officers doing their job, I do object to abusive actions and outrageous conduct.

Sharri

This happened back in the Fall of '97, I got rained out from work and was just goofing off, and tooling around town, and I inadvertently drove into New Rome. It had a bad reputation even then, and I actually thought of turning around immediately, and stay the hell out of the town. But before I could, there was one of the cops pulling me over. I didn't have my front plate mounted because the bumper's mounting holes were wallowed out, so I had the plate on my dash. And I was not wearing my seat belt. Yes, I  know these are things that perhaps warrant a ticket. So in that I was not too mad when I received the ticket from the officer that could floss with rope.  He showed me the number to call to find out what my fines would be. 

I immediately left the town stopped at a gas station to make this call. The lady I talked to said that she couldn't tell me what the fines were until she got the original ticket, I was trying to be cordial and stated my offenses, I asked if she knew the fines for them, she pointedly said she knew but she wouldn't tell me.  I am no longer cordial but still a bit from downright rude,  I asked her if she was going to make me drive home and make a long distance call just to find out how much my fine was going to be? She retorted "Yes" and now I was not in the least bit pleasant and told her I wasn't going to call and I wasn't going pay ____! (I was not using pleasant words) She informed me that they would put a warrant out for my arrest. I had a few more words about how little I cared and what I thought of her town when she hung up on me.

A month later I get a letter saying if I didn't pay my $154 in fines there would be a warrant out for my arrest! Now, I know that I was a bit in the wrong, but $154 worth?, I don't thinks so. So I proceeded to say to hell with them, I am not going back into that town, and I am not paying.

Another month later, I am in a fender bender in Columbus. I know that there is a warrant out for my arrest, I am in the back of a Columbus cruiser thinking "I am going to jail" as they run my license. Sure enough the dispatcher says that there is a New Rome warrant out for my arrest. They ask me about it, I told them, they blew it off. New Rome holds a lot of clout with the Columbus PD.

Two months later I get a letter from OBMV stating that my license would be suspended if I didn't pay the ticket. I caved, I paid the damn ticket reluctantly. Thought that would be the end of it. Wrong.

Three months later my employer runs my driving record so I can drive company vehicles at this point I find out I have no driver's license. New Rome never acknowledged my payment to OBMV so I had to go to New Rome get proof that I paid the ticket. Fortunately, I was able to get into town, and back out without further problems with Ol' Toothless Barney. I waited in line for more than an hour to get my license reinstated.

Now the State has known how this town runs for a long time, they allow the town to over inflate fines to generate revenue. Then they support the action by revoking licenses and it is your responsibility to  prove that you paid a ticket, when New Rome should have reported the payment of the ticket. Officially, my liscense should have never been suspended but if I had gotten pulled over in the meantime for something that would have been a real pain for me. I think it is time for the State to step in and regulate some of these issues in New Rome, and dissolving the town could be a moot point

 

Andrew

I have a story about New Rome. Two years ago I was shopping at a local store, on the main drag through the wonderful little village of New Rome. It was a hot summer day. I parked my car around the other side of the building, where the parking lot was.  I noticed that a New Rome cop was sitting across the street from the video game store.  The way that my car was parked, there was no way he could see my plates.

The officer watched me go in the store, and watched me come out and get into my car. There was a little store next door, that I wanted to shop at, a small novelty store, so instead of coming out on W. Broad, I went through the alley.  No law against that.

I parked my car and was walking across the parking lot, and here comes this cop like a bat out of hell through the lot!  He has his lights on and all, and was shouting at me to stop where I was at. So, I did. He pulled up beside me, and wants to know if i have my registration and proof of insurance and drivers license. I said yes, and ask him why. He told me that my car was registered to a hatch back.  I told him that this was surely not a hatch back, I had a 85 Crown Victoria at the time.  He was very nasty with me and I just got nasty back.  I told him to call it in while I was standing there and listening to the radio check. I told him if he did not prove that to me right there that I was going to go shopping and he needed to harass someone else today, that I didn't have time for this crap! He had to call it in because I had a witness that saw everything that happened. So he had to let me go. No ticket today Barnie! He was so pissed. New Rome needs to go. I have lived here for eight years, and I have yet to see anything good from them. Thanks for listening  P.A

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While driving through new rome, making sure I go 34 miles an hour and staying in one lane so I have no "real" movement, and thinking this would stop them from noticing me.  Wrong!  I had just got off work and still had my bandanna, so of course I was a "criminal".  Just when I think I'm out of the "woods", up flies a new rome cop.  Follows me for close to a mile then decides he's going to pull me over.  

So he gets to my window and says "do you know why i pulled you over?"..NO, I replied. "I know I wasn't speeding"

"No, you weren't speeding, I didn't see your license plate in the front", then he says "oh there it is in the window".  (Thinking to myself ,he didn't even see the front of my car )  So he asks for all my information and with my luck I didnt have my license on me.  But I gave them my social , and every thing checked out fine.  

So he tells me to stay in the car that he will be right back.  Well after 20 minutes passed another cop comes flying up beside me and runs to my car with a huge print out of my face (drivers license pic) as if I was lying about who I am. Then he proceeds to tell me that "if we weren't so busy i would take you to jail, for not having your license is grounds for taking you in". So they give me a citation to come to there "court room".

The judge was 25 minutes late.  When I finally got to have my "trial", it ended up costing me 158 dollars ..for not having my plate on my bumper (that I fixed that day) and not having my license on my body.