DeWine lets cops make arrests without credentials
At least twice in his career as an East Cleveland cop since so-called “chief” of police Michael Cardilli has let his Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy (OPOTA) credentials expire. The first time was for 5 years between November 17, 1999 and August 10, 2005. The city’s late chief of police, and not the mayor, received an August 10, 2005 letter from Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro’s office telling her that Cardilli and another cop, Paula Robinson, had continued to impersonate law enforcement officers for 5 and 13 years past dates they should have “ceased performing the duties of a…
