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Friday, June 5, 2009
Sheriff on jail closure, Twitter, lack of trust in Jolivette
In this story, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones elaborates on why he closed the Resolutions minimum security jail late yesterday evening. He did it to save money, he said.
So why didn’t he tell commissioners? He said it was a safety issue, and he has since discussed it with commissioners Donald Dixon and Charles Furmon. But not Commissioner Gregory Jolivette.
“I don’t have much trust for him,” Jones said of Jolivette.
Instead, he tweeted about it. Why?
“I just wanted to see if you guys are watching those (tweets)” he said. “The sheriff does tweet.”
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Commissioner Furmon helps nab paper thief
From this story:
A stakeout that led to a car chase, a car crash and one arrest — all over a 50-cent copy of the Hamilton JournalNews — made for an interesting morning for Butler County Commissioner Charles Furmon.
Police said newspapers may stop disappearing from driveways on Schultz Drive now that Terrell Wayne Shields, 25, was arrested at his work Thursday morning, June 4, and charged with criminal trespassing and theft.
The arrest followed a series of events that started with Furmon, a retired police officer who lives in the 600 block of Schultz, hiding in his truck and staking out his own driveway at around 5:30 a.m.
The 68-year-old commissioner said he saw the suspect pull up, exit his vehicle and casually take a newspaper from Furmon’s driveway. Furmon said he called police and followed the suspect, eventually writing down his license plate number and flashing his lights at him to get him to pull over on NW Washington Boulevard near Berkley Square.
Furmon said he walked up and confronted Shields, who replied, “What are you doing, man?”
Police said Shields — who lives in the 700 block of Schultz Drive — pulled away after Furmon’s next-door neighbor, Morris E. Shelly, pulled up behind Shields’ vehicle.
Shelley gave chase but ended up wrecking his fairly new Cadillac into a utility pole at the corner of West Elkton Road and NW Washington Boulevard, police said.
Shields had in his possession a copy of Furmon’s newspaper when he was arrested at his workplace in Enterprise Park, said Hamilton police Lt. Scott Scrimizzi. According to JournalNews circulation records, Shields had canceled his subscription the previous day.
Furmon said he wrote his initials on the front page of his paper so police could identify it, adding that he had to buy another copy.
“We told Chuck he’s getting too old to do this stuff,” Scrimizzi said.
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