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Ex-Mayor of Medina Pleads Innocent!
Posted by FoM on March 13, 1999 at 07:24:18 PT

MEDINA Former mayor Fred M. Greenwood Jr., 73, pleaded innocent yesterday during arraignment on a felony charge of possessing crack cocaine.
Fred M. Greenwood Jr. remains free on bond in cocaine possession case.Greenwood, who was mayor from 1966 to 1974 and who also served as the City Council president, was allowed to remain free on a $10,000 bond.Possession of crack cocaine is a fifth-degree felony that carries maximum penalties of one year in prison and a $2,500 fine.Medina County Common Pleas Judge William G. Batchelder scheduled a pretrial hearing in the case for March 26.A grand jury indicted Greenwood after police reported finding several pipes containing residue of cocaine in his Leisure Lane apartment.The police had gone to the apartment Jan. 12 on a tip that an Akron man wanted on drug charges was staying there.Greenwood was arrested March 6 and spent four days in the Medina County Jail before being freed on bond.Greenwood, who was accompanied at yesterday's arraignment by a daughter, Susan Kuzich, declined to comment afterward.His attorney, Christopher J. Collier, said he had advised Greenwood not to discuss the case. Collier said he could not comment because he had not been provided police reports by the prosecutor's office.Assistant County Prosecutor Mary Ann Kovach also declined to talk about the case.Police had gone to Greenwood's apartment after the Medina County Drug Task Force received a report from Akron police that David M. Conley, 51, of Akron was staying there.Conley was wanted on an Akron Municipal Court warrant charging him with drug possession.Greenwood voluntarily permitted a search of his apartment. Conley was found hiding in a bedroom closet.Police said several crack pipes were found during a search of the apartment.Conley, of Arch Street in Akron, was arrested at the scene and charged with drug abuse, a fifth-degree felony, and resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.Conley pleaded guilty on Jan. 22 in Medina Municipal Court to reduced charges of marijuana possession.Conley still faces the drug charge filed Jan. 7 in Akron Municipal court.According to state and Summit County records, Conley had no felony record until October, when he was indicted by a Summit County grand jury for possession of cocaine, a fifth-degree felony.Conley's attorney, Vincent J. Alfera, said that police reported finding cocaine in Conley's vehicle during a traffic stop.Conley pleaded guilty Nov. 5 to a reduced misdemeanor drug charge. He was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Mary F. Spicer to a year's probation.http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/027242.htm
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Comment #1 posted by HELPLESS !!!!!!! on August 27, 2001 at 19:17:07 PT:
COCAINE CHARGES 
I AM A MOTHER OF THREE YOUNG GIRLS WHOS FATHER WAS RECENTLY COMMETED TO A PRISON FOR A POSSION CHARGE OF A CRACK PIPE, HE WAS IN A VOULANTARY DRUG TRAEATMENT PROGRAM FOR A YEAR PRIOR TO HIS SENTENCING HE WAS NOT ORDERED BY ANY COURT TO GO TO THIS DRUG PROGRAM AS I SAID HE DID THIS OF HIS OWN FREE WILL. I FIND IT VERY SAD THAT HE HAS THREE KIDS AND WAS CLEAN FOR THE YEAR LEADING UP TO HIS SENTENCING AND HAD A CLEAN RECORD FOR THE PAST YEAR AND WAS PUT IN PRISON FOR A YEAR FOR THIS BUT!!!!! THE EX MAYOR OF MEDINA COUNTY WAS FOUND WITH SEVERAL CRACK PIPES AND GOT A HOUSE ARREST CONVICTION,IT REALLY MAKES ME WONDER IF THE OLD SAYIN MONEY TALKS IS REALLY TRUE THESE DAYS OR IS IT ALL ABOUT WHO YOU KNOW AND WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR YOU? AS A RESULT OF THIS I AS WELL AS MY THREE CHILDREN SUFFER TO MAKE ENDS MEET DAY TO DAY FOR THE NEXT YEAR, I HOPE MEDINA COUNTY IS AS FAIR AS I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT TO BE AND THIS IS JUST A "CRACK" IN THE SYSTEM.. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND PLEASE FEEL FREE TO E MAIL ME AT SAVSSMILESZ AOL.COM AND TO ALL READING THIS BEWARE OF WHAT YOU DO IT WILL ALWAYS COME BACK IN THE END TO HAUNT YOU...
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