Michael Dietz had been holding a grudge since August 2023, when he got in an accident with a suburban Cleveland woman. Frustrated with how the case had proceeded, he tracked her down last Thursday and finally got his revenge, along with a chauffeured ride to the local jail.
Westlake police responded to the victim’s home after she saw the damage to her home and vehicle. In several spaces, the word “a**hole” had been spray-painted , albeit misspelled. The woman’s Ring camera footage also showed the man pour sugar in the gas tank of an SUV parked in her driveway, according to the criminal complaint.
He even desecrated her miniature University of Alabama flag anchored in her yard.
“He wrote a lot of words, many of them misspelled on the house itself, plus took time to spray paint the windows,” said Capt. Gerry Vogel of the Westlake Police Department. “If you watch the surveillance video, he even notices the cameras that are there and sprays paint on the cameras.”…