Suspended Lorain police officer Stanley Marrero took the stand earlier today before his criminal trial concluded, insisting that he did nothing wrong.

Although Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Edward Zaleski dismissed theft in office charges accusing him of stealing from the city for having sex on duty, Marrero continues to face other charges.

Marrero denied he ignored a police dispatch call on his radio in 2001 because he was having sex with a woman in 2001. He also rejected accusations that he’d exposed himself to another woman in 2006 and asked her for oral sex. He allegedly told the woman that if she revealed what happened, Lorain police wouldn’t respond to her calls.

Marrero said he barely knew the woman.

Marrero also said a January 2007 fight between two of his lovers that ended with a broken nose for one woman and eventually criminal charges for the other happened too quickly for him to have stopped.

Marrero didn’t deny that he didn’t call police or arrest the attacker because he was embarrassed by the situation, but he also said that over the years he’s let people go despite seeing them in fights.

Zaleski said he will hand down hi verdict on the remaining charges – intimidation, dereliction of duty and public indecency – next week.

For more on this story see Thursday’s Chronicle.

 

 

 

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