Local city worker with gun accused of threatening boss: I-Team

SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio (WJW) — The FOX 8 I-Team has found a Sheffield Lake city employee is sitting in jail accused of bringing a gun outside the service department and making comments threatening his boss.

Records show Edward Stottlemire is charged with aggravated menacing.

Law Director David Graves told us Stottlemire had been on extended leave, and he knew he would be terminated March 1. Graves said Stottlemire had been worker in the service department for a long time.

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A police report says last Friday Stottlemire spoke to another employee, and he revealed he had a gun and magazine in the car.

That fellow employee told police, “Ed said you should better go and I should better go before I do something I shouldn’t and to that guy …”

The employee said Stottelmire motioned to where the service director had just been.

The fellow employee also told police Stottlemire looked “mad” and “angry,” and he also shook the gun case, saying, “I’d like to use this …”

The Law Director says police arrested Stottlemire later without incident.

David Graves added, even with Stottlemire in jail, city buildings have been locked.

“All the city buildings have been locked,” he said. “We have to take it very seriously. We can’t take the chance that a tragedy might occur.”

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Stottlemire has been held on a $100,000 bond. His attorney has filed a motion asking the court to lower that bond so that he can get out of jail while his case begins to move through court.

Attorney Ian Crawford wrote Stottlemire’s bond is “unbelievably excessive.” And, he wrote, “Mr. Stottlemire remains privileged to the presumption of innocence and maintains his plea of not guilty.”

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