Update: Cleveland prosecutors say one of the two women James Box allegedly behaved badly with has a case for “unlawful restraint” if she wants to press charges. No word yet on her decision.
Via Cleveland.com, the details of just what a freaking specimen of gentlemanly honor Box is:
The woman told police she invited Box into her apartment for something to drink after he looked at the car.
Box grabbed her arm, moved her against a wall and suggested having sex with her, the woman said. After she said no, Box unzipped his pants and exposed his penis, she said. She then asked him to leave and he did.
The woman could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon. Box was reached on Thursday, but he declined to comment about the accusations made against him.
Lovely.
The case involving the other woman has been passed on to Shaker Heights police. — Grzegorek
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A city of Cleveland employee whose track record of alleged crimes has done nothing to slow down his public sector career is back in the spotlight, facing new accusations but still drawing government pay.
This article appears in Mar 21-27, 2012.
Wow…What a piece of dirt…
He’s gonna die in jail…
Get him to prison, before he kills a victim, just because he does not want to go to prison.
This sounds like some some political bullshit. This man is a very hard working and upstanding person.
As usual …. a fine piece of work. Or should I say felon SAVAGE !!!
Having seen both sides of these types of stories I have to say that in this age of technology we are often not told the whole story. I remember a sexual misconduct case that made headlines a few years ago more than once was in the pd and the actual event never took place. In fact, the girl in question was at a party asking who wanted to play with her “middle leg” just two days after she had been paid the settlement which had stated that she was “inappropriately touched” and needed therapy or something. It was all a shakedown.In the end it turned out an old rival of the person named in the case was manipulating the whole thing because he had been fired from his job.So, I don’t know this Box guy but in Cleveland politics someone may be just vying for his job and trying to move him out of the way.The accused is not aloud to talk publicly so they cannot defend themselves in any way shape or form.When this happens and you are accused you just have to sit there and everyone thinks your a scumbag. So like I said. Believe half of what you see and none of what you read.
As much as I’d like to believe this guy is an outstanding, wrongly-accused fellow, I’m willing to bet he probably isn’t. You can only be in so many wrongly-accused situations before it’s obvious you’re either (1) an idiot for getting into these situations all the time, or (2) actually not wrongly-accused at all, you’re just able to get out of trouble.
Sigh.
The question to ask is:
What process do WE expect our elected officials to follow to thoroughly investigate the background of OUR employees prior to hiring them.
If we do not mind having ex felons, rapists and other less than upstanding citizens on the public payroll then we should continue business as usual.
I believe there are many Cleveland citizens who see nothing wrong with hiring felons. You will hear: “They are simply misunderstood”… “If only they would be given a “chance” they will change.” “It is all politics.” Meanwhile decent honest citizens can’t get a city job. And decent people move to places where it is expected that ALL citizens obey the law.
I do not know this guy, but I do know that one of the easiest things to frame a man on is sex crimes involving children. With the right lynch-mob all one needs to do is suggest that such rumors of such acts have been circulating to get someone ruined for life in the social circle or community where he or she is located. Many people have always been ready to fry anyone who has been accused of anything…and one of the best ways is to say someone whipped out their crank…as though that was somehow the most death-penalty deserving crime in the world.
‘See that guy over there? He just pulled his crank out and there may have been children watching’ This can create mob violence, and upstanding weapon carriers will shoot him in the middle leg and then do all sorts of things to keep this man from ever whipping out a crank again. Murder and violence are just boys being boys, but when they whip out crank, they need to be executed on the spot….after being tortured in your more conservative vigilant groups of heros.
A veteran police officer just inbox me and asked me to ask the public this How would you feel if you knew that a convicted rapist that was a Cop pulled you over on the side of the road at 10:00pm?,How would you feel if you had been sexually assaulted by someone and the Cop that came to your home to do the report was a convicted rapist? In his words still The Mayor Frank Jackson has put the overall public at risk James Box works in community relations it compromises the integrity of local Government #WOW!
This guy has history there are those who were his victims that did not speak up. Get him the F outta his city position which strokes his big ego and put him on the sex offender registry
was he a friend of Jim Dimora?