OBERLIN — A former Lorain police officer who has spent the past two months behind bars for allegedly violating his probation in a telephone harassment case has been released from the Lorain County Jail. But the release could be short-lived.

Corey Earl, 48, could still be returned to jail if accusations that he violated a no-contact order that prevented him from having contact with his ex-wife, Laura Astorino, are proven in a hearing next month.  Earl pleaded no contest in March to telephone harassment and was given a six-month suspended jail sentenced.

John Prusak, Earl’s attorney, said he asked Oberlin Municipal Court Judge Thomas Januzzi to release Earl because of medical issues related to a series of strokes Earl suffered in 2008.

Earl took a disability retirement from the Lorain Police Department earlier this year.

Earl will be required to stay away from Astorino — who filed the original complaint against him — and must wear a GPS monitoring device, Prusak said.

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