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Resident asks council to press police after alleged aggravated menacing; family seeks immediate action
Summary
A Middletown resident said police declined to arrest a man who threatened his family with a gun; he presented video and Ohio Revised Code language and asked council to direct police to act.
Barry Lee Moore told Middletown City Council on July 15 that a neighbor threatened to kill his family on his front porch and that officers declined to arrest the suspect. Moore said he recorded the incident on five surveillance cameras and discussed it with officers who responded; he told council that “sergeant Wagers said that, he did not that the police officer did not hear the man threaten us, so they cannot arrest him.”
Moore said the family has filed about 10 police reports about the same individual and that the alleged suspect has repeatedly harassed them. “Is the city gonna arrest this man? Or do we gonna wait till my son gets killed?” Moore asked council, adding that his 10-year-old daughter was too frightened to attend the meeting.
Why it matters: the speaker described repeated threats and a perceived failure of police to use aggravated-menacing statutes. Moore referenced the Ohio Revised Code while asking for council or police-chief intervention.
Council response: The mayor and city manager noted that the police chief was present at the meeting and asked staff to follow up. The city manager offered to connect the family with the police chief and staff recorded the request for immediate follow-up.
Ending: Moore left council asking for an answer at the meeting and for a prompt police follow-up; the city manager and council committed to staff contact.
