Mayor Diezel DePew said he is upset with the way the Edgewater Police Department handled the Daniel Rippeon incident.

Jasmine Wert, the sister of Paul Wert, said the traumatic experience left her brother feeling unsafe to return to his workplace.

Paul Wert, 22, was arrested May 10 outside an Edgewater CVS where he had just gotten off work. He was threatened with a taser ...

Daniel Rippeon is on administrative leave and under investigation following the arrest of Paul Wert, the Edgewater Police ...

After a very brief internal affairs investigation, the officer who made a controversial arrest of a CVS worker shortly after ...

Posts on social media have called Rippeon out for aggressive arrest of Paul Wert. "This is an example of why people don't respect law enforcement." ...

"My grandson got off work at the CVS a couple of Saturday nights ago, and he was accosted, and he was arrested, and he spent 2-1/2 days in a county jail for absolutely doing nothing," Paul Wert said.

A police officer cannot use his position of authority to "teach someone a lesson" when they have committed no crime.

Rippeon arrested Paul Wert, 22, on May 10 while he was sitting on a bench outside a closed CVS on Ridgewood Avenue in Edgewater. Wert, a CVS employee, was waiting for a Lyft transport to take him ...

On June 3, the grandfather of Paul Wert, 22, told The News-Journal that his grandson was arrested for no apparent reason but for wearing a hoodie. Edgewater Police Officer Daniel Rippeon accused ...