Ex-Deputy is declared guilty of inappropriate use of the database

Personnel photo / Ed Runyan former deputy of the Sheriff of Mahoning Donald F. Belosic County, on the left, talks to Judge Anthony D’Apolito de Mahoning County Common pleas Court with his lawyer, John McCaffrey.

Jungown – Donald F. Belosic’s lawyer, 51, from Canfield, told the Judge of Common pleasures of Mahoning County, Anthony D’Amolito, on Tuesday that Belosic resigned from the Sheriff’s office at the end of last year and may not work in the application of the law “for the application of the law” Try to use an application database of the law in 2020.

The lawyer John McCaffrey said that Belesic, a veteran of almost 30 years at the Sheriff’s office, delivered his certificate of the Ohio’s peace of peace training to Special Prosecutors on Tuesday as part of the resolution of the minor crime.

Belosic declared himself guilty on Tuesday to try to incorrectly use the database of the link door of the Law of the Law, only for the Law, the Database of the Law of Law 14 times when he was a deputy to provide information to information to A private researcher with whom Belosic worked before the researcher retired as a special FBI agent who worked at the FBI Mahoning County, according to McCaffrey and special prosecutors.

D’Apolito sentenced Belesic to three years of probation and ordered him to perform 80 hours of community service and pay a fine of $ 250, in addition to the requirement of delivering his opata certificate.

Mary Grace Tokmenko, an assistant prosecutor of Cuyohoga, who was one of the two special prosecutors who managed the case, said the crime occurred in 2020 when Belesic was an active deputy of the Sheriff of the Mahoning County and had access to the door of entry of the Law of the Law of Ohio.

It is used to help criminal justice agencies to “connect, resolve and prevent crimes,” according to Ohio’s office. The Ohio Criminal Investigation Office, which is part of the Ohio Attorney General’s office, investigated the matter in 2024, Tokmenko said.

She said that an associate from Belosic was working as a private researcher and requested and worked with Belesic to “obtain multiple amounts of Ohleg’s information.”

“So, what was happening was that the private researcher was watching some people, I think the defendant was also, and the private researcher would ask that a certain plate or a name or address be executed,” he said.

She said that BCI’s investigation showed that Belosic did this 14 times “out of the reach of his work” and provided the information to the “non -police individual.”

Much of the evidence collected during the investigation came from the cell phone issued by the department of the Sheriff of Belesic, he said. She thought that the resolution reached between her, the assistant fellow of Cuyo Cuyo Andrew Rogalski, Belosic and her lawyer were “righteous.”

She said that Belesic gave her Rogalski her certificate of the Ohio Peace Official Academy, “since this was one of the main conditions of this plea.”

D’Amolito, who said he had never met Belosic before Tuesday and, therefore, did not believe he had any conflict when he heard the case, he asked special prosecutors if Belosic information helped the private investigator to obtain invasions of privacy.

Tokmenko said BCI spoke with almost all people whose information was obtained. “All were surprised and a little alarmed that their information would have been accessed and disseminated. His honor, I suppose we would say there was no direct damage, except the emotional rattle of being attacked and not understanding why. “

She said Ohleg’s information can include address, driver’s license, social security number, date of birth, plates and vehicles recorded in the person. She said that no information damaged credit history or financial information.

BCI’s researcher spoke with individuals several years after his information leaked, and there were no indications that “nothing else had developed from it,” he said.

McCaffrey said Belosic served the Sheriff’s office for almost 30 years, even in corrections, patrol, court security and approximately a decade that represents the Sheriff’s office in the task force of the drug control administration.

He called Belesic’s offensive as an “aberrant act in almost three decades of service.” He said that the private investigator was a special agent retired from the FBI who worked in Mahoning County.

He and Belesic worked together for many years, and the private researcher indicated that “the subjects of his research were involved in illegal activities.” Belosic did not “benefit in any way,” and did not “commit any application investigation of the law” or law personnel, McCaffrey said.

“He dropped his guard,” McCaffrey said about Belosic. “He has certainly paid a price.” He added that “no measures have been taken against the researcher.”

Belosic told the judge that it was assigned to the DEA Youngstown in 2013. “He and I participated in several cooperative efforts with respect to the main drug trafficking organizations that operate in the Mahoning Valley and the Northeast of Ohio.”

His work “dismantled criminal organizations that had supply routes outside the United States border,” he said. He said the retired agent was hired by a worried family member to investigate the alleged use of illegal drugs and attack an individual in Youngstown.

He provided the researcher with information that “helped him fill the gaps of his investigation.” He said he knew he committed “technical violations of the law.”

The position of Belosic came from an information bill, in which the accused renounces his right to make a jury listen to his case.