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Chester Township, OH – October 23, 2024 – The repossession went smoothly. Pulling into the parking lot of a church to strap it down properly, things took a turn for the worse.
On Tuesday the 22nd, officers of the Chester Township Police Department responded to an assault call by a repossession agent at the parking lot of the Mayfield United Methodist Church along Mayfield Road.
Upon arrival, officers took testimony from an unnamed repossessor who claimed that he had successfully repossessed a vehicle from a nearby residence and had pulled into the church parking lot to secure the unit when a vehicle sped into the lot and blocked his exit.
A dashboard-mounted camera in the tow truck shows a vehicle approach him from the front, blocking him in.
Even before that vehicle comes to a complete stop, the passenger exits with a handgun, pointing it at the tow truck driver as he angrily approaches.
“The dude kept flashing the gun, pointed it at me, cocking it and then he shot towards the back of my truck. … He kept threatening he’s going to put a bullet in my head, he’s getting three more dudes to follow me to make sure I’m not calling the police,” the agent told a police dispatcher in a call made after the incident.
A camera facing the inside of the tow truck shows the driver being assaulted and pulled out of the driver’s side window.
“During the course of the event, the individual is being ordered from the tow truck to release the vehicle. The gun, of course, is being pointed at him, as you know, and at some point, the gun was discharged in his direction,” said Chester Township Police Chief Craig Young.
“I couldn’t get it unstrapped fast enough and, you know, then he fired the gun off and then kept threatening me. He pointed it at me several times,” the driver told police.
“This occurred in a church parking lot where there is a preschool in session, so now we enter into a situation where technically you are in a school safety zone and you are discharging a firearm — and really that’s the reason this investigation is ongoing,” said Young.
In addition to being roughed up and threatened, the tow truck driver told police his assailants took his cell phone and threw it into a pond.
One of them got into the vehicle that was being repossessed and the other into the vehicle they arrived in and both drove off.
The tow truck driver made his 911 call from a phone at a nearby gas station, giving police the address from where the vehicle was being repossessed and the name of the vehicle owner on the account, Ronald Delisio.
Officers quickly identified the second suspect as Kevin Delisio. Both were arrested without incident.
The men now face charges of aggravated robbery, kidnapping and aggravated menacing and will likely face additional charges as the investigation continues.
Source: Cleveland 19 News and Fox8.com
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