During the hearing, Bellevue Police Chief Mark Kaufman told the court, “He felt he was above the law.”
Check out fuller details in the original posts below.
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(Updated 11/22/16): Suspended Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer, who refused to resign after being indicted on multiple felony counts earlier this year and ran for and lost a re-election bid earlier this month, has pleaded guilty to 13 felony drug and theft charges.
He’ll face sentencing on December 13.
Overmyer had originally faced 43 charges before the plea deal. He’d been accused of stealing prescription drugs from drop-off boxes and conning doctors into writing him prescriptions for pain killers.
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(Updated 11/2/16): Suspended Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer is, to put it in law enforcement parlance, a real piece of work.
Overmyer allegedly rounded up drugs from prescription drug disposal drop boxes, as well as deceived doctors into prescribing him painkillers.
For those and other offenses, he was indicted on some 43 charges back in August.
He pleaded not guilty and was out on bond.
Now a special prosecutor says he should be shipped back to jail while he awaits trial in March 2017, according to the Associated Press. It seems Sheriff Shitbag violated his release terms, specifically by having contact with witnesses in the case and in the Sandusky County Sheriff’s office during his suspension.
His attorney has thrown out the “this has everything to do with the election and voting and not my client’s shitbag behavior” excuse. Yes, he’s still on the ballot. (Dear lord, Sandusky, please don’t re-elect him.)
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(Original story 8/24/16): Yesterday, Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer was indicted on 43 charges by a grand jury. Of the 43 charges:
– 20 are drug-related. In all cases, the drug is a pharmaceutical opioid—Percocet, Hydrocodone or Oxycodone.
– 12 are related to the alteration, removal, destruction, etc., of records belonging to local, state or federal government.
– Six are for theft as a public official of amounts between $1,000 and $7,500.
– Five are for filing a false statement knowingly.
– 38 of the 43 are felonies, while the remaining five are misdemeanors. 12 of the felonies are third degree, 21 are fourth degree and the remaining five are fifth degree.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Overmyer has been ordered to turn over his gun, badge and have no contact with the sheriff’s office or any potential witnesses by Judge Patricia Cosgrove. Bond has been set at $150,000. The case will go to trial on March 6, 2017, if Overmyer makes bond.
An investigation began in 2015 after a number of local police chiefs expressed concern about the conduct of Overmyer in regard to his handling of prescription drugs obtained from take-back boxes across the county. In February earlier this year, Hamilton O’Brien of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office began the investigation.
Overmyer has been the Sheriff of Sandusky County since 2008, and is up for re-election in November. He is the youngest elected Sheriff in Ohio at 34.
This article appears in Aug 24-30, 2016.
When told to turn over his badge, Kyle “Gold Hat” Overmyer shouted: “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”
How can people continue to defend the police as a whole when the corruption comes from the top down?
It doesn’t matter who or what you are drug addiction is not specific was he a good man before the drugs?Do not be so quick to judge you do not know his circumstances sheriff or not he is a human being first and foremost.
Rhonda, do you really think this ass extended that same courtesy to similar addicts whose life he destroyed?
Probably not Aleks.
His failure to “protect and serve” like he swore he would is one of the worst betrayals you can commit. If you’re a cop, you have to be held to a higher standard than everyone else. Thank you for making police officers everywhere look bad; but hey, at least you got your fix, right?
If you’re a police officer, and you get convicted of anything, I think your sentence should automatically be doubled.
Why double a former police officer’s jail time for a conviction when Judges and other politicians get a slap on the wrist for their misdeeds? Police Officers are at the bottom rung of the ladder compared to them.
Becoming a police officer and taking an oath doesn’t automatically make you a super moral person, incapable of committing any degree of dishonesty. And yet they do it ALL THE TIME.
Do you actually think that every police officer has NEVER taking a nap on the job? That is Theft in Office. Probably Tampering With Records too, because they failed to put on their duty log that they were sleeping. Instead, they noted they were on a “safety check” of a given area, yet in fact they were sleeping.
Do you believe that every police officer has NEVER taken advantage of free food and drinks on duty? That is Soliciting Improper Compensation, which is a 1st degree misdemeanor offense. Do you think every police officer has NEVER embellished while on the witness stand under oath to win a case?? That is perjury no matter how well-meaning the officer’s intention to help put away a life-long offender on a weak case.
So come on now, they are human like everyone else. They break the law and get caught, they get prosecuted like everyone else; because in reality, they are everyone else, they just have a badge as the only factor of difference from your average John and Jane citizen.