John Scheets
John Scheets trained to become a welder after high school, but when he was a kid, he wanted to be just like “Gibby” the cop.
“I was just amazed. He always took time to stop and talk. He was just neat as a pin. His persona, the way he carried himself. I just thought that was awesome,” Scheets said.
Older folks in Salem will remember Gilbert “Gibby” Bartha Sr..
He was a well-known Salem city police officer who during his off-hours, still in uniform, worked the door at the grocery/department store Persky’s, where Giant Eagle stands now and where Scheets used to see him.
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Longtime Salem Police Sgt. John Scheets flashes the familiar smile thatâs greeted Salem residents the past 36 years, first with the auxiliary then full-time as a road patrolman, detective, road supervisor and drug task force agent. Scheets retired from the department Jan. 8, but remains in law enforcement as a new member of the Columbiana County Sheriffâs Office. (Photo by Johnâs son, Jack Scheets)
SALEM Â John Scheets trained to become a welder after high school, but when he was a kid, he wanted to be just like “Gibby” the cop.
“I was just amazed. He always took time to stop and talk. He was just neat as a pin. His persona, the way he carried himself. I just thought that was awesome,” Scheets said.
Jan 17, 2021
Staff photo / Ed Runyan
Lt. Tom Collins of the Austintown Police Department shows his Motorola body camera, which integrates the camera and the police radio in one device. There is one button to turn on the body camera and one for the radio.
News coverage of the Dec. 22, 2020, fatal shooting of a man walking toward a Columbus police officer while holding a cellphone produced a type of police body-camera video that many people probably didn’t know was possible.
Video from the body camera of officer Adam Coy showing Andre Hill being killed was possible because of a feature on the device called a “look-back.”
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News coverage of the Dec. 22, 2020, fatal shooting of a man walking toward a Columbus police officer while holding a cellphone produced a type of police body- camera video that many people probably didn’t know was possible.
Video from the body camera of officer Adam Coy showing Andre Hill being killed was possible because of a feature on the device called a “look-back.”
Lt. Tom Collins of the Austintown Police Department, whose Motorola body cameras have the look-back feature, explained that the feature requires that the camera be running at all times.
“Our body cameras are always on, and they are recording,” Collins said.
A document filed Monday in the U.S. Northern Ohio District Court, Cleveland, on behalf of a Canfield man charged with a gun offense seeks to suppress evidence in the case.
It was filed to suppress evidence seized as authorities searched a home at 3440 Orchard Hill Drive in Canfield Township in August.
Michael Soles, 48, of Canfield, was indicted on a charge of possession of a machine gun. He has pleaded not guilty.
In the indictment, it is stated that Soles knowingly had an unregistered machine gun in his possession, which is a violation of federal law.
The motion to suppress evidence may delay the trial that is scheduled for Feb. 1 in front of Judge Solomon Oliver Jr.