What a court decided, and what only somebody said, are marked separately on this page.
He was convicted of drug possession on 23 April 2025. That is a conviction and it is stated
as one.
Everything else here — what his wife swore in the divorce, what the police wrote in the
run sheet, what he has said about the charge since — is labelled as what it is. No court
has ruled on any of it.
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The charge, in order
Rocky River Municipal Court · Nos. CRB 2100337 and CRB 2401716 · and the divorce record, No. DR-20-382383
24 August 2020 · Her sworn allegation
What she swore in the divorce complaint
Filed with the complaint was her sworn affidavit, stating that for several months he had been
“using and/or abusing alcohol and non-prescription marijuana on a daily
basis,” and that his behaviour under the influence was
“unstable, irrational, threatening, harassing.”
These are her allegations, not findings. No court ruled on them. The divorce
was granted on the ground of incompatibility. They are here because they are
what she put before the court on day one, seven weeks before the offence date, and because the
court’s later orders are only legible against them.
Complaint for divorce and affidavit, 24 August 2020 · No. DR-20-382383
10 October 2020 · Police run sheet
Neither charging record names a substance. The police report does.
The case-information pages do not say what the drug was. Both simply record
possession under R.C. 2925.11(A). The substance is named in the police run sheet
— which is in the record only because he attached it to one of his own motions
in the divorce.
“Clear plastic baggie containing suspected mushrooms approx 6 grams”
Officers recorded seizing it at the home of his estranged wife, where he was present under a
civil standby to collect belongings. In sworn testimony she said the
“laboratory confirmed it at a later time.”
“Suspected” is the officer’s own word. The confirmation
comes from her testimony, not from a laboratory report in evidence here.
Exhibit to Defendant’s Motion to Include Evidence — his mental
health, filed 21 December 2021, at pp. 33–35 and 41 · No. DR-20-382383
23 October 2020 · Court order
An alcohol and drug assessment, ordered thirteen days after the offence date
The divorce court ordered a Family Evaluation Services forensic evaluation at
$800 and an alcohol and drug assessment at $175. He did not cooperate with the
evaluation; the evaluator told him “I cannot force you to sign authorizations to
release records. That is your choice.” He did not sign them, and filed a document
he captioned Defendant’s Election of Non Cooperation in Peaceful Protest.
On 18 November 2021 he was granted no visitation or contact
whatsoever until he petitions the court, complies with its orders, and proves he is
“mentally and physically fit.”
No. DR-20-382383 · orders of 23 October 2020 and 18 November 2021
See also. The custody ruling and the conditions attached to it.
1 March 2021 – 6 November 2024 · Court record
Filed, dismissed on the prosecutor’s own motion, then filed again
The charge was first brought on 1 March 2021 as
CRB 2100337, with a warrant issued the same day and served four days later. He
pleaded not guilty on 17 March 2021. The case then ran for three and a half
years.
On 26 August 2024 it was dismissed on the prosecutor’s own
motion. Ten weeks later, on 6 November 2024, the same charge was
filed again as CRB 2401716 — same offence date, same
officer — with a warrant issued the same day. It was served on
12 December 2024, the docket recording “defendant in
custody.”
Nos. CRB 2100337 and CRB 2401716 · Rocky River Municipal Court
21 December 2021 · His own filing
His answer to the court’s evaluator: medical cannabis, and a question about geography
Eleven months before he told another court that drug charges had been fabricated against him,
he filed his own account of his use. He told the court’s Family Evaluation Services
evaluator that he used medical cannabis, and objected to her calling it
“substance abuse” or “illicit substances” —
arguing that it was lawful elsewhere, and asking whether his
“geographical location is what is making me an unfit Father in this
Court’s eyes.”
Excerpt from Defendant’s Motion to Include Evidence — his mental
health, 21 December 2021 · No. DR-20-382383
1 March 2023 · His sworn motion
He told a court the charges were fabricated
In a motion sworn before a notary “under penalty of perjury,” he asserted
that the drug charges against him were “fabricated,” and elsewhere
that police had worked to fabricate drug evidence against him.
No court has made any such finding. The charge was refiled and he was
convicted on it on a plea of no contest two years later. The complaint
about the police was also put to the Rocky River Law Director and to the police department
themselves in grievances he filed; nothing came of either.
Motion for a show-cause hearing by video, 1 March 2023, denied 7 March 2023
· No. CV-22-969917
See also. The same motion called his divorce settlement a bounty on his own life.
23 April 2025 · Criminal conviction
Convicted — four and a half years after the offence date
The offence date on both filings is 10 October 2020. The charge is
drug possession under
R.C. 2925.11(A),
a misdemeanour of the first degree, brought by the same officer on both.
He pleaded no contest and was found guilty on
23 April 2025 — the same day he was convicted on
all ten counts in the harassment case. Fine
$250, costs $353, active probation.
No. CRB 2401716 · convicted 23 April 2025