CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A former Rocky River police officer pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of unauthorized use of the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway, a fifth-degree felony.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said Michael Bernhardt ran illegal searches on Rocky River students and their family members, other law enforcement officers and colleagues, school teachers and school administrators, and his own family members and ex-spouses.
Bernhardt was also a former school resource officer at Rocky River High School.
O’Malley added many of the searches were related to his “obsessive and inappropriate relationships with students.”…