Friday, June 26, 2015
WARREN — A corrections officer at the Trumbull County Jail has been terminated from his job after an investigation into his prescription drug use.
Ryan Tolone of Girard was placed on paid administrative leave in early June after an internal-affairs investigation. The probe was related to a report from the Ohio State Highway Patrol indicating that Tolone had the drug buprenorphine in his system when he was involved in a fatal vehicle-pedestrian accident on Belmont Avenue in Liberty on Jan. 28.
One of the trade names for buprenorphone is Suboxone, which most commonly is used to treat addiction to opioid drugs such as heroin or oxycodone.
Tolone later was fired, and a hearing officer upheld the termination June 22 after the termination was appealed. The hearing officer was Ernest Cook, chief deputy sheriff and county 911 director.
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