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Cops bust man for having rubber Halloween ax!
Don't these pigs have any real criminals to hunt down? On the other hand if a cop wants to make himself look like a hero with out taking the risk of hunting down dangerous real criminals I guess arresting harmless people like Bill Morrison for victimless crimes like having a harmless rubber Halloween ax is the way to make yourself look like a police hero. These people are why we call police officers "pigs". Man sees ax arrest as overkill By Phil Trexler Beacon Journal staff writer Published: November 21, 2011 - 01:15 AM It was just two weeks before Halloween, and Bill Morrison was trying to sell his bloody ax. The blade was rubber, the blood was actually red paint. But nonetheless, it was enough for a woman to call 911 and for Akron police to arrest and jail Morrison overnight on a charge of inducing panic. Criminal charges are pending in Akron Municipal Court, and Morrison’s attorneys are asking prosecutors to fall on their sword and dismiss the misdemeanor case. A pretrial is scheduled for January. “It’s an odd sort of case,” said Akron City Prosecutor Doug Powley. “But we’re going to look at all the circumstances and see how strong a case it is and try to reach an appropriate outcome for everyone.” [ Translation - even if we are idiots for arresting this guy, we want to come out looking like heroes. The only way to do that is threaten to jail the poor slob for like and hope he takes a plea bargain in which he admits he is a major criminal and in exchange we drop the charges. ] Halloween is a sort of pastime for Morrison. He is known in the area for creating scares at Akron’s Haunted Schoolhouse and Haunted Laboratory for years. He also creates frightening characters and does makeup work for those who want to do some scary things on Halloween. He’s even worked in Hollywood. Some might see his arrest on a charge of inducing panic as affirmation of his talent. But throwing the case out is what defense attorney Ed Sawan wants. He said Morrison did nothing wrong, and the “charges appear to be unfounded.” “He’s unsure why he was arrested,” Sawan said. “He didn’t understand the need for him to be arrested, charged and incarcerated.” [ Hell, I live 2,000 miles away in Arizona and I'm not sure why these dopey pigs in Ohio arrested this poor guy. ] The event unfolded the night of Oct. 16 outside Corky’s Thomastown bar near South Arlington Street and Triplett Boulevard. A woman called 911. She declined to leave her name for police. “We just saw a man with, like, a hatchet, with an ax and he hid it under his coat and he started walking to toward the [bar],” she told the dispatcher. “He’s sitting outside. It’s kind of suspicious because he’s pacing back and forth.” The woman tells the dispatcher that the man with long, brown hair and wearing a dark green trench coat just entered the bar with “a full, long ax.” Akron Officers Timothy Wypasek and James Donohue responded to the call and spotted Morrison on South Arlington Street near Lindsay Avenue. “We ordered him to stop and open up his coat,” the officers wrote in their report. “He pulled an ax from inside the coat and laid it on the sidewalk. “Upon further inspection of the ax, we discovered that it was actually a facsimile of an ax. It had a wooden handle with a rubber head and was covered in fake blood.” Morrison went on to tell the officers that he paid $80 for the costume ax. He went to the bar to sell it to a friend, but when no one was inside, he left. The report does not indicate that Morrison was unruly. He was arrested and taken to jail on a misdemeanor charge of inducing panic. He was released the next day on a signature bond. Under Ohio law, inducing panic means: “No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm” by “threatening to commit any offense of violence or committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.” Morrison faces up to six months in prison, if convicted. He is due in court Jan. 23. |