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EAST LIVERPOOL A month after an appeals court ruled against city police and remanded the case back to East Liverpool Municipal Court, Judge Dominic Frank dismissed it Tuesday.
Frank granted Assistant County Prosecutor Abbey Minamyer’s motion to dismiss the 2019 criminal charges without prejudice against Joseph DeSarro II, Duke Vodrey Road.
In their Dec. 16 dated decision, Judges Gene Donofrio, Carol Ann Robb and David A. D’Apolito of the Seventh Court of Appeals reversed the case before Frank’s predecessor Melissa Byers-Emmerling and suppressed all evidence, alleging an unlawful search.
The charges stemmed from DeSarro’s March 29, 2019 arrest. Patrolman Chris Green investigated alleged drug activity in the 900 block of Avondale and began conducting surveillance through a partially obstructed window, videotaping it with his phone before calling for backup. “Patrolman Green observed (DeSarro), brushing his teeth and saw a firearm in the waistba