Police Chief, Self-Proclaimed "God of Put-in-Bay," Accused of Covering Up Police Rapes | Scene and Heard: Scene's News Blog | Cleveland Scene

26.7.15

Police Chief, Self-Proclaimed "God of Put-in-Bay," Accused of Covering Up Police Rapes | Scene and Heard: Scene's News Blog | Cleveland Scene:


Scene reporter Doug Brown wrote the story of rampant roofies at Put-in-Bay last year, but it turns out the alleged date-rapes of bar manager Chris Blessing in 2014 were neither isolated nor new.


Lampela, two federal lawsuits say, protected a PIB police officer who
roofied two female cadets and raped them (on different occasions) 12
years ago. One lawsuit says that Lampela used his power to threaten one
of the victims, saying he was the "God of Put-in-Bay" and could destroy
her career if he wanted to.


According to the legal documents filed in the U.S. District Court of
Toledo, Lampela called the victims "whores" and even went to one of
their homes and held a gun to her head. His general stance, which he was
reported to (dickishly) vocalize, was that two [women] didn't have the
power to take down the department of which he was all-powerful
dictator.



"Who do you think they will believe," he reportedly told one of the
victims when confronted about the rape, "you or the chief of Police?"