Civil Service exam for Berea police ends Feb. 29: Community Voices - cleveland.com

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Civil Service exam for Berea police ends Feb. 29: Community Voices - cleveland.com Posted: 30 Jan 2020 10:41 AM PST BEREA, Ohio -- The Berea Civil Service Commission is conducting exams for entry-level police officers through Feb. 29. The testing is through the National Testing Network Test Center. For testing locations, go to www.nationaltestingnetwork.com. Candidates with a current score may submit their existing profile to Berea through NTN. Candidates must be 21 to 35 years old. Military veterans should upload copies of their DD214s through NTN to receive a 2 percent credit. A physical agility certificate through Cuyahoga Community College does not have to be submitted prior to the exam, but must be submitted by successful candidates prior to appointment. The online application process includes a personal history questionnaire and a copy of high school diplomas, GED equivalent or college degrees. Sometime after March 4, the Civil Service Commission will meet to review the calculations and certify the Eligibility List. Applicants will receive an email with the final results and their ranking. Once the list has been certified, the top 10 or top 25 percent of candidates -- whichever number is higher -- will be contacted by the Berea Police Department to begin the selection process. These candidates will be asked to complete a detailed application, physical agility test conducted by Tri-C, polygraph test, medical exam, background investigations, interviews and psychological profile evaluation. The Berea Police Department expects to hire five new officers over the next two years. For questions about the testing process, contact Civil Service secretary Linda Muglich at lmuglich@cityofberea.org or 440-826-5831 or contact NTN directly at https://www.nationaltetingnetwork.com/public_safety_jobs/faqs.cfm. The NTN candidate support help line is 866-563-3882.

Trial underway for ex-priest accused of raping Santa Fe County boy - Santa Fe New Mexican Posted: 30 Jan 2020 04:00 PM PST A criminal trial isn't necessarily a search for the truth, a defense attorney for a former priest charged with sex crimes in Santa Fe County told jurors Thursday in opening arguments. It's more a question of whether the state can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crimes occurred. Attorney Ryan Villa represents Marvin Archuleta, who is accused of tying up and raping a first grader at Holy Cross Catholic School in Santa Cruz during the 1986-87 school year. Archuleta, 82, is the first priest to be put on trial as a result of an investigation state Attorney General Hector Balderas began in 2016 into allegations of sexual assaults by New Mexico clergy members going back decades. The accusations against Archuleta — that he took a 6-year-old boy to the sacristy, restrained him with a belt and raped him while saying, "This is God's love" —  are sure to elicit a strong response from jurors. But as Villa's comments indicate, proving three decades later Archuleta committed the crimes could prove challenging for prosecutors whose first task will be disproving Archuleta's claim that he wasn't even in New Mexico when the alleged crimes occurred. Whatever physical evidence may be long gone and memories are sure to be called into question. According to a criminal complaint, Archuleta was ordained in 1970 and served as a priest in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe from 1970-78 and from 1987-94 in Santa Cruz and Chimayó. But he also spent more than a decade in Silver Spring, Md., which is where his attorneys say he was when his accuser claims to have been raped. Archuleta has denied committing the crimes and says he hadn't even heard of his alleged victim until the accusations surfaced. "There is nothing truthful in the allegation," Archuleta said in a recorded interview with special agents that was played for jurors Thursday. Asked if he felt his accuser was lying, Archuleta said: "I don't want to say he is lying, but what he is describing is not even a possibility." Archuleta agreed to take a polygraph test, according to the recording, but the lead investigator in the case said Thursday that Archuleta was never given one because "they can be easily manipulated." Archuleta's accuser — now in his 30s — didn't disclose the alleged abuse to authorities until 2016. And when he did, he didn't accuse Archuleta by name because he didn't know his name, prosecutors said Thursday. Instead he picked him out of a lineup of photographs of priests shown to him by a civil attorney. Archuleta was a defendant in several lawsuits accusing him of abuse — three of which the archdiocese has settled out of court — and his name appears on a list published by the archdiocese of clergy credibly accused of sexual assault. But jurors will never know that because those facts will not be allowed to be introduced at trial. Assistant Attorney General Brittany DuChaussee told jurors Thursday she expects to prove Archuleta's guilt through the testimony of his accuser — who is expected to take the stand Friday — the accuser's family and newspaper clippings placing Archuleta in the area at the time. "We can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Marvin Archuleta was here," DuChaussee said, "and that [his accuser] was abused by Marvin Archuleta under the guise of it being God's love." Villa criticized the attorney general's investigation during his opening arguments Thursday, saying the office never bothered to look for records in Maryland or to interview the accuser's first grade teacher, who, according to Villa, has said she doesn't remember Archuleta or any of the circumstances his accuser says preceded his sexual assault at the hands of the priest. Villa said he intends to introduce his own evidence — in the form of newspaper clippings and baptism records — to prove Archuleta was living in Maryland at the time he of the alleged rape. Archuleta's trial is expected to continue through Feb. 7. If convicted of the charges — criminal sexual penetration of a minor and kidnapping — he faces up to 36 years in prison.

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