Back in July, Lt. Michael Baker of the Cleveland Division of Police, crashed his car while drunk in Parma. He was later found guilty of the same (after pleading no contest to drinking drunk and not guilty to the hit-and-run), and then later broke his probation agreement.

On Friday, Baker was terminated from the department. 

This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2014.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.