Sunday, October 13, 2024
Clintonville police received a call on Friday, April 8, reporting that a man was urinating on the sidewalk across Main Street from the Cutty Sark bar and "had his thing out," which he was exposing to passing motorists.
Clintonville Police Officer Dennis Schroeder and Sgt. Gene Meyer responded to the area. They encountered a man, who matched the caller's description, waking near the Culver's parking lot, located about a block away from the reported incident.
According to the criminal complaint, the man refused to identify himself and did not have any ID. He reportedly began arguing with the officers that they were violating his rights.
The officers arrested the man on suspicion of urinating in public, placed him in handcuffs and put him in the back of a squad car. As Schroeder closed the car door, the man reportedly spit out the window and caught Schroeder in the face. The police then placed a spit hood over the man's head.
The man then allegedly began yelling at the officers, saying, "Jesus sayeth you shall be cursed."
After a struggle to remove the man from the squad car, police took him to an interview room.
Since the police still did not know the man's name. Schroeder contacted the Cutty Sark bar to see if anyone there knew who the man was. He was informed that the bartender did not know the man, but had told him to leave after the man began calling some of the other patrons whores.
Schroeder contacted another bar and learned that the man's first name was Scott and where he worked. After more calls, Schroeder eventually identified him as Gokey.
Gokey faces up to six years in prison if convicted of battery to an officer and up to three years if convicted of expelling bodily fluids at an officer.
