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Something else which bothered me was that the prosecutor, not the police
department, received the phone call. Even more peculiar was that the prosecutor
received the phone call at home, at night. And the phone call was not made by
an anonymous person, as they testified in court. It was made by Steve Duly, the
very same person who I forced months earlier to notify the city of Rossford in
writing that he was not the president nor an officer of the company any longer.
I forced him to resign when I took back the control of the company, and every
city official in Rossford knew it.
Now in all fairness, I'd be the first person to agree that if the city of
Rossford or any other city receives a legitimate complaint regarding the
dumping of hazardous waste, they should check into it immediately. I equally
believe that there ought to be guidelines to follow in doing so. One I believe
should be for investigators to obtain a search warrant before entering
someone’s property, especially when they know before going there that no one is
there.
I'd like someone to explain to me how the prosecutor for the city of
Rossford could forget such an important procedure. Personally, I don't think he
forgot! I think his enthusiasm for delivering a political favor and its rewards
set precedence over my rights. In fact, at this point he was leading the
charge.
Let's look at this for a moment. The prosecutor supposedly received a phone
call at home at night and then drove to the landfill by himself. For whatever
reason, he never bothered calling and have a police crew meet him there so they
could assist in the search; he just went there by himself. I think the next
logical question would be: Was he taken to the planted evidence by Steve Duly
or did he supposedly find it on his own? Remember. This was at night in a
landfill.
If I were to put myself in his place, the first thing I'd be concerned about
would be the fact that I was there illegally and he had to know that. Hell,
he's a lawyer besides being the city prosecutor, so either way he knew it.
The second thing would be the impossible existence of a brand new box about
18" long by 12" wide and around 16" deep, clean and undamaged
sitting on top of the pile out where anyone could find it, especially in the
dark of night unless it was planted there first by one of them.
Remember. The box contained a brand new full can of gasoline, several bags
of some type of power chemical and a ton of book matches. Miraculously, the box
and it's contents never even spilled, so everything in the box appeared to be
fresh off the store shelf. Strangely, the box and its contents somewhat
resembled a primitive type of box bomb. For all I know, whoever planted this
could have been planning to start a fire, changed their mind at the last
second, and decided to use it as evidence instead.
If there's any doubt in your mind regarding the possibility of this box
really being there where they said it was, try and picture in your mind a 40'
semi-trailer full of debris with a brand new box and its contents sitting
somewhere in the debris driving on our local roads to get to the landfill. By
the way, these trailers are not carefully hand-loaded, they’re loaded by heavy
equipment. That in itself should be enough to knock the box over or at least
get it dirty. Then the truck arrives at the landfill, drives down a hill and
dumps the full load of debris. You tell me, what are the chances of the box and
its contents landing upright on top of the pile of debris clean and intact?
I think at this point, if indeed the prosecutor was standing down in the
landfill at night and found this box, simple logic would make him question how
the box got there, if in fact it was there at all, because there's no way it
could have come off a truck in that condition.
To me, the next thing running though his mind should have been, "Who
else on earth would believe this?" I can't swear that the mayor or the
prosecutor placed the box on the pile of debris, but if they didn't, common
sense would indicate that they knew who did. I wonder if it ever went through
the prosecutor’s mind that maybe Steve Duly could have put it there, because
that's the only other way it could have gotten there.
I believe the reason the prosecutor didn't question any of this is that he
already knew it was a set-up before he ever left his home. As a matter of fact,
when he arrived at the landfill Steve Duly could have just walked out of his
garage with the box and handed it to him. For all I know, they then smiled,
kissed and went their own separate ways. I know how bizarre that sounds, but
it's no more bizarre than the prosecutor finding the box.
The part that's even more disturbing is that the mayor and prosecutor of
Rossford had to know in advance that if they set me up by planting evidence or
having it planted, they would still have to successfully prosecute me in the
Perrysburg court and not in Rossford’s mayor’s court. They also knew that I
wouldn't just sit there and take this without a fight. To me, the only logical
conclusion I can come to is that they had to know that this was a sure thing,
and the only way they could have been sure was if they had already struck a
deal with someone in the Perrysburg court.
Anyhow the prosecutor, supposedly an officer of the court took this evidence
back to the Rossford courthouse. The next morning when my uncle and I arrived
at the landfill we were arrested by the chief of police and taken to the police
station which also happens to be the court and administration building. I also
found it strange that I was always arrested by either the mayor or the chief of
police. They never sent out a regular police officer to do their dirty work. It
makes you wonder "why?" Personally, I think it was because it was a
set-up and they could not afford to have anyone outside their circle have
knowledge of what they were doing.
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