FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
More Metro Madness
Metro bus driver and self-proclaimed preacher Tyrone Patrick was finally arrested Wednesday on two counts of vehicular manslaughter and one count of vehicular homicide stemming from an incident this past January where Patrick struck, ran over and killed 73-year old Stephen Frank after Patrick made an improper left turn driving his 18-ton bus in Hyde Park square. Frank’s daughter Emily Frank was also injured and hospitalized in that killing. Just prior to the incident, an on-duty Cincinnati police officer had been following Patrick after he observed Patrick’s blatant and dangerous driving of the Metro route 51 bus.
Since January 29, 2016, Patrick has been sitting on his fat ass on his sofa at home, watching TV all day and popping pounds of bonbons into his mouth. He is on PAID leave from Metro, which after his recent arrest, said it is “reviewing his employment situation.” So he gets paid for killing a fine citizen and he doesn’t have to go to work, getting a regular paycheck. Nice job if you can get it, huh?
The Blower was the first to write here about Tyrone Patrick and his various scams dating from 2010.
Patrick was involved in another pedestrian collision on October 31, 2010, when he was driving his Nissan Altima. He was driving with license plates on his car which had expired two years earlier. He entered a guilty plea to the offense, hoping his employer Metro would not find out about it. He needn’t have worried, Metro doesn’t seem to care about such things.
Patrick has been involved in several other under-the-radar incidents and scams over the years.
Cheating Chief Robert Wright, former Cincinnati fire chief, was complicit with Patrick, naming him as a Cincinnati fire department chaplain and giving him a plush office next to Wright at the fire department headquarters downtown.
Current Cincinnati Fire Chief Robert Braun, who knows better, has kept Patrick on as the fire chaplain. So has current Cincinnati Police Chief Elliot Isaac.
Although he wasn’t a fire fighter or an employee of the fire department, Patrick purchased a Cincinnati fire department uniform and used it to his advantage in some of his scams. He wore his fire department uniform to court in his 2010 pedestrian charge.
Patrick also fooled judge Norbert Nadel and magistrate Michael L. Bachman in other court cases, wearing his fake fire department uniform.
Patrick was $12,663 delinquent in his property taxes on his home at 5608 Goldenrod Drive in Mt. Airy. Patrick has also declared bankruptcy. Laws and rules apparently mean little to Patrick.
Patrick took every unfair advantage of his title as chaplain. He’d make unscheduled visits to various fire houses and ask if he could stay for their meal, never offering to pay his share for the food. On a regular basis, he even asked to spend the entire night or several nights at various fire houses, sleeping in whatever bed there was. Fire fighters noticed after his stay, some of their food in the kitchen had disappeared with him. Fire fighters described Patrick as “creepy” and most didn’t like him.
Patrick didn’t bother to show up in court on Thursday, instead entering a written plea of “not guilty” and bonding out. Maybe his fake fire uniform was dirty. He will be sitting on his fat ass at home and scarfing down a lot of bonbons before his next court date on April 21.
