A Cleveland police officer is facing misdemeanor charges after a superior saw him bumbling around a residential neighborhood, then dropping his drawers to take a drunken leak, all while carrying a loaded handgun.
The officer, 57-year-old Paul Juliano, was off-duty at the time of the incident.
Cleveland.com has the details:
Cleveland police Sgt. Robert Dunn said he first saw Juliano at the corner of Rocky River Drive and Larchwood Avenue about 8:50 p.m. Saturday, according to court records. Juliano had glassy eyes, slurred speech, smelled of alcohol and had to lean on vehicles parked on the street to support himself, Dunn wrote in an affidavit.
At one point during Dunn’s investigation, Juliano reportedly got out of the car and urinated on the curb in front of a residential housing building. Juliano had a Smith & Wesson model 5943 handgun holstered to his right hip.
What’s more, police received a call on Saturday from a driver who spotted a car driving recklessly near Rocky River Dr. and Lorain Ave. Police pulled the vehicle over soon after and arrested the driver, 54-year-old Howard Kennedy, who reportedly told officers, “Look, I’m just trying to get my buddy home. He’s drunker than I am.”
A police report on the drunken driving incident doesn’t specifically name Juliano as Kennedy’s passenger, but police officials did say Juliano’s charges were related to Kennedy’s arrest, Cleveland.com reports.
Just last week, Scene tackled the poignant question — What happens when police need prosecuting? — in our cover story Law & Order: C.L.E. Read it here, if you missed it.
Juliano is slated to appear in court on Feb. 4.
This article appears in Jan 21-27, 2015.
What happened to the word urinating?
if you see the video , the dude was totally shithoused.. he would have got an escort home with a slap on the wrist if TV crew hadn’t been on scene.
When you sensationalize and exaggerate, you lose credibility. “Dropped his drawers”? The video plainly shows he did not. The use of the words, “pissing” and “leak” to refer to urination shows a lack of culture and education.
Court rulings have stated that public urination may not even be crime if the person makes an effort to shield themselves from public view. The officer clearly attempted to get behind his truck and turned away from the persons on the scene.
Lastly, being intoxicated while being a passenger is not illegal.
@accuracy in reporting – Dropping ones drawers does not always refer to literally dropping your pants to the ground. Ignoring common sayings that don’t always have literal meanings shows your inability to comprehend simple statements.
Secondly, this is the Scene magazine not the New York Times or Time magazine. If you expect an article you read to be delivered in a certain tone or with specific language go read something more sophisticated than a local Scene magazine. One would think an educated person like you that is well versed in diversity and culture would already know what a city’s local Scene magazine is all about, apparently not though.
Lastly, there is a law in each state against public urination, look it up. Furthermore the court system has provided many people with public urination, public intoxication and even in some cases indecent exposure charges and those are all charges that have come when the person is hidden behind a dumpster or down an alley. In this case he was right in front of residential house. Whether or not he tried turning away from the people on the scene is irrelevant since the people who’s house he was in front of could see him.