East Cleveland Police Chief Scott Gardner appears in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Sept. 21, 2022, to answer to theft in office and other charges that accuse him of failing to properly pay taxes for several years. Also pictured is his defense attorney Allison Hibbard.Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cuyahoga County grand jury has slapped the indicted former East Cleveland police chief Scott Gardner with 11 more charges that accuse him of money laundering and passing bad checks.
The indictment handed up Tuesday alleges that Gardner, 48, wrote thousands of dollars in checks he knew wouldn’t clear from a police union account to his private security company that employed off-duty police officers.
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