| WARREN - A Trumbull County employee arrested last week
while detectives raided his home and confiscated cocaine was indicted
Thursday on claims that he sold the drug on four occasions. Kenneth A.
Greep, 58, of Pleasant Valley Road, Vienna, was named in the four-count
indictment contained on a special report from a Trumbull County grand jury.
Indictments accuse Greep - an ex-convict who served a federal prison
sentence for drug sales - sold between 10 and 100 grams of powder cocaine on
Feb. 26 and March 5, 16 and 18.
The March 18 count contains a forfeiture specification for $2,200, which
investigators with Trumbull-Ashtabula Group (TAG) Law Enforcement Task Force
say they found while raiding Greep's house.
While the house was being searched, Greep was arrested by Sheriff's
Office detectives at his job in the Trumbull County Department of Job and
Family Services. They charged him with one count each of trafficking and
possession of cocaine. He later posted a $10,000 bond.
He now is scheduled to appear later today for arraignment on the
indictments. The case has been assigned to Common Pleas Judge W. Wyatt
McKay.
Greep had been employed doing intermittent clerical-related work at JFS
since October for $9 an hour. Last week, Thomas Mahoney, then-JFS director,
said Greep was well-liked and never came to work under any influence. The
Second Chance Program is to help get ex-convicts temporary jobs and work
experience, Mahoney said.
There remains no clear connection between Greep's arrest and Mahoney's
firing by commissioners on Monday other than Mahoney's alluding to the
arrest the day he was cleaning out his desk.
The police agents said they confiscated two ounces of powdered cocaine, a
large scale, a drug ledger and $2,200 in cash in Greep's house. Agents said
they also found nine bags of cocaine in gram-sized baggies in the pocket of
a leather coat inside a bedroom closet with the cash.
Agents said they also found a ledger inside a dresser in Greep's bedroom.
Greep had just completed a period of federal parole after serving a
previous federal drug sentence
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