Video: What led to Sheffield Lake worker’s arrest
SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio (WJW) – Video released to the FOX 8 I-Team shows a local city worker with a gun getting arrested while accused of making threats against a boss.
You see the moment police took a Sheffield Lake city worker into custody, and security video shows some of what happened in the parking lot outside the service garage.
Investigators say an employee there had been on leave. Then, he showed up in the parking lot telling another worker he had a gun and magazine in the car.
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Police say Edward Stottlemire made statements considered threatening toward the service director. Officers later arrested Stottlemire on a warrant.
Body camera video shows an officer told Stottlemire, “I don’t know you personally, but anything like that, we’ve got to take serious, and the judge found it credible enough from Lorain Muni to issue a warrant for your arrest.”
“When was this supposed to have been said and done?” Stottlemire asked.
“Got any guns on you…?” another officer asked.
“In my car, in a case,” Stottlemire answered.
Stottlemire has been charged with aggravated menacing. He is pleading not guilty. Court records say he has not met bond to get out of jail.
Law Director David Graves told us Stottlemire had been on extended leave, and he knew he would be terminated. Graves said Stottlemire had been worker in the service department for a long time.
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A police report says Stottlemire spoke to another employee and he first revealed he had a gun and magazine in the car.
“Ed said you should better go and I should better go before I do something I shouldn’t and to that guy,” that fellow employee told police.
The employee said Stottelmire motioned to where the service director had just been.
The fellow employee also told police Stottlemire looked “mad” and “angry,” and he also shook the gun case, saying, “I’d like to use this.”
Stottlemire has been held on a $100,000 bond.
Attorney Ian Crawford wrote, in a court motion, Stottlemire’s bond is “unbelievably excessive.”
“Mr. Stottlemire remains privileged to the presumption of innocence and maintains his plea of not guilty,” he wrote.
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