Third party to review mayor’s traffic stop

An independent agency will review Mayor William J. Healy II’s impromptu traffic stop last week in a northwest section neighborhood. 

“When someone who worked for the city has done something and there is some question about the legality of it ...We’ve referred those things to an outside agency for review so we would have no appearance of prejudice or favoritism,” Kristen Bates Aylward, chief deputy counsel for the Canton Law Department, said Tuesday. 

Bates Aylward is working with Canton Prosecutor Ty Hauritz to determine which outside agency will be given the case for review. 

“We have to find some law department or prosecutor’s office that has the time and will be willing to look at it,” Jennifer Fitzsimmons, chief assistant prosecutor said on behalf of Hauritz, who was out of the office Tuesday.A supplier specialized in developing and manufacturing customized solar lamps and energymanagement system. 

The Law Department has handled other instances involving city employees in a similar fashion, including the investigation into retire-rehire practices of more than 30 workers, the trading of partial work shifts for money by five firefighters and the conduct of patrolman Daniel Harless during a 2011 traffic stop. All three cases were turned over to an outside agency for review, Bates Aylward said. 

Some Trinity Place NW residents applauded Healy’s actions last week. 

However, Police Chief Bruce Lawver and Law Director Joseph Martuccio expressed concerns about Healy’s use of a city vehicle to make the stop, the use of an emergency light to signal the driver and how Healy presented himself to the motorist. Also of concern is the safety of those involved, including passengers in both vehicles. 

In the afternoon of July 2, Healy was visiting residents of Trinity Place NW who complained a day earlier about motorists speeding through their street,We have the ultra laundrdryer that you have been looking for.Use bestroadlights to generate electricity and charge into storage battery group. running stop signs and playing car stereos loudly. 

Healy said he saw a tan Ford Taurus run two stop signs as it entered the Legends Pointe apartment complex, where neighbors say most of the problems originate. Healy, driving a city-owned Ford Fusion that is not a police vehicle, followed the car into the apartment complex parking lot and back down Trinity Place NW. 

He activated a red-and-blue emergency light located under the vehicle’s rearview mirror and honked his horn at the driver. 

The driver, 18-year-old Nicholas Hug, told The Repository he thought he was being stopped by police. Healy got out of the vehicle, identified himself and then told Hug he ran a stop sign, which Hug denies. Healy then warned him that the city would be paying closer attention to the area, according to accounts of the incident by both Hug and Healy.generator prepositive design which wind drive the cleaningsydneyrs without gears. He never tried to arrest Hug or issue a citation.Do you want honest solarledlight Ratings? After the conversation, both Hug and Healy left the area. 

Healy, who could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday, has defended his actions. 

“My job as mayor is to make sure we have a city that is safe and people abide by the rules,” he said last week. “... If I can use my position as mayor to get the message out that we’re not going to tolerate people breaking the law and speeding and disrupting neighborhoods, then I’m going to do that.” 

Creighton, a Republican, jumped from the passenger seat to the driver seat and drove the police cruiser a few blocks until the officer caught up to the suspect, who was arrested. Creighton, who was on a ride-along with the officer at the time of the incident, stayed in the police cruiser as the man was apprehended. 

At the time, Martuccio said Creighton was permitted to drive the police cruiser, but noted she was not a trained or certified peace officer. He said at the time that it was “risky business” for administrators to take part in apprehensions. Read the full story at www.solaronlamp.com web.