Cop Fired For Pulling Over Daughter’s Boyfriend, Saying 'We'll Make Shit Up' As He Takes Him Into Custody
Source - A Lorain police officer was fired after an internal investigation found he abused his authority by conducting a traffic stop on his daughter’s boyfriend without cause and temporarily detained his daughter and her boyfriend in the back of his squad car.
According to an internal investigation completed by Lt. Ed Super as well as dashcam footage from Kovach’s cruiser, shortly before 6 p.m. on April 16 a silver vehicle with a driver and three passengers passed Kovach’s patrol car in the same direction that he was facing on West 34th Street. Without alerting dispatch, Kovach initiates a stop.
He tells the driver, his daughter’s boyfriend Makai Coleman, 18, to get out because he’s “going to jail.” Coleman asks Kovach what for and Kovach responds: “Have a seat in my car. We’ll make (expletive) up as we go.” Coleman goes and sits in Kovach’s cruiser.
Kovach then addresses Gloria Morales, who comes out of her home nearby because her children are two of the three people in the car with Coleman. He tells Morales his daughter’s computer is inside her house and while she initially gives him permission to search the house, she later tells him to come back with a search warrant when he threatens to give her daughter a $300 ticket for not wearing her seatbelt.
Morales and Kovach argue back and forth after Kovach tells her to go inside the house. When she says she is calling 911, he threatens to arrest her, telling her it is not an emergency, according to documents related to the firing. He tells her two children to get out of the car and go with Morales. At that point, he notices his daughter, Katlyn Kovach, 18, in the backseat.
At that point, Kovach tells Coleman to get out of the cruiser and he pushes his daughter into the cruiser while she protests that she is 18 and can’t be arrested for without cause. He eventually gets her into the cruiser and drives away.
While all of that was going on, Kovach had been called to a road rage incident on Leavitt Road. According to the dashcam footage, Kovach does not respond to the call from dispatch.
On the surface this story is hilarious. “Overprotective dad pulls over daughter’s boyfriend to give him a hard time.” But once you read into it you realize that it’s actually pretty fucked up. If it wasn’t for that lady coming out of her house he would’ve arrested that kid and booked him on phony charges. Why? I don’t know, but I will say it reminds me an awful lot of the Chappelle DWB story. The sad part is I really wanted to be on the cop’s side. I LOVE crooked cops. The Seven-Five is one of my favorite movies of all time. The only crooked cop story that trumps it is the one Artie Lange told on Stern.
There’s something about blatant abuse of power that makes me laugh. But this is too far. There was no comedy in it. It was just a bored suburban douchebag cop with nothing better to do than terrorize a bunch of high school kids. At least when Jay Feely did it, it was funny.
Would I have fired the guy? Honestly, probably not. I would definitely take a long hard look at his record to see if he has any other marks on it though. If I had to bet I’d say it does. People don’t become scumbags overnight. It’s a long process. And judging from the video Officer Kovach’s been “in the process” longer than the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers.