Trumbull deputy drops grievances over two disciplinary matters

Staff report

WARREN

David Guarino, a Trumbull County deputy sheriff, has received a written reprimand for his behavior toward a man visiting the county’s Family/Juvenile Court in 2013.

The incident resulted in a lawsuit against the sheriff’s office last month in which the man alleged Guarino used excessive force against him at the entrance to the court. The lawsuit is pending.

Last week, after filing a grievance over the discipline the sheriff’s office gave him, the matter was resolved with Guarino agreeing to the written reprimand.

In an earlier article, The Vindicator reported that Guarino received a one-day suspension over the incident but that suspension was for an earlier incident involving a criminal charge Guarino filed against a Farmdale man in November 2012. The incorrect information came from a sheriff’s office document that pertained to the other disciplinary matter.

The matter that produced the one-day suspension also was resolved last week when Guarino dropped his grievance over the suspension, which he served with accrued compensatory time.

In the earlier matter, Guarino charged the man with failure to reinstate, a charge that means the man failed to take all of the necessary steps to have his driver’s license reinstated after a suspension.

But Guarino didn’t turn in the paperwork that accompanies a charge of that type, and Judge Thomas Campbell arraigned the man based on the copy of the ticket the defendant brought with him to court.

After clerks at Central District asked Guarino without success at least three times over four months to file the paperwork, Judge Campbell dismissed the charge.