Jonathan Whitlow told a judge on Thursday that he didn’t want former East Cleveland police officer Willie Warner Sims, who pulled Whitlow over and robbed him twice, to go to prison. “He didn’t kill nobody. He didn’t beat nobody up. He’s a thief. Him going to prison ain't going to do nothing for me.'
McGinty fined both men the maximum $40,000, and he ordered the former officers to repay one victim they robbed together $5,000. McGinty ordered Cole to repay three people he robbed on his own $4,580. Sims is on the hook for $6,931.Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said through a spokeswoman that he thanked the FBI and the county sheriff’s department for investigating the case.
He apologized to his friends and family, but he did not express regret to Whitlow or any of the other victims.Sims’ first robbery came on July 7, 2020, when he responded to a gas station after a customer became irate and began yelling at the cashier and a worker for a beverage distribution company that was there to collect a check.
Whitlow said he didn’t report the incident because he also had marijuana in the car that Sims didn’t find. That man went straight to East Cleveland police to file a complaint, and department supervisors pulled Cole over after his shift and found $1,200 in cash in his wallet and the gummies in a duffel bag in his backseat, Tokmenko said.
Whitlow said he sympathized with Sims, who worked in a department that paid its officers a paltry salary compared to other departments. “He knows what it means to be part of a team,” Misiewicz said. “His goal was to be part of a team and be a police officer.”
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