The dogs didn’t attack, but Lakewood residents now face charges.
When police responded to an Elmwood Avenue home for a report of noise in the early morning of April 12, a Lakewood man ordered his two pit bulls to attack the police officers. But the dogs didn’t attack, and the man was arrested. David Wright, of 1412 Elmwood Avenue, was charged with disorderly conduct, aggravated menacing and keeping a vicious or dangerous dog. He was found guilty of keeping a vicious dog in Lakewood Municipal Court on April 13. Police chief Timothy Malley said that the officers weren’t injured during the incident. “Officers told residents to turn down TV which they refused to do, (then ordered) the officers to leave or their two pit bulls would be released on them,” he said, adding that two others in the home also face…
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The measure clarifies 2008 ordinance banning pit bulls, allows them to be housed in animal shelters, hospitals.
Pit bulls are still illegal in Lakewood. But on Monday night, Lakewood City Council passed a measure that will “temporarily” allow them to be housed by veterinarians, animal hospitals and animal rescues. Last month, council president Brian Powers introduced a measure that sought to clarify the 2008 ordinance that bans the breed from the city. About 18 pit bulls were grandfathered in when the original ban went into effect. “We wanted to make it absolutely clear that if one of these animals are in their possession for any period of time, it’s not a violation of the law,” Powers told Lakewood Patch. The ordinance did nothing to address the new state law signed last month by Gov. John Kasich that declassified pit bulls as dangerous and …
wright22
1:03 am on Thursday, July 26, 2012
This was my brothers case, and his dogs were in no way viscious. The cops had barged into his house without knocking trying to catch him with these dogs. He ordered the police officers to leave his house. They wouldn't leave. My brother told the cops that he was going to put his dogs away and the cop slammed him up against the wall and said that he said that, and took the dogs away and threatened… more ›