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At the time, he was 31 and a seven-year veteran of the force recently promoted to the rank of Investigator, as well as a member of the department’s motorcycle unit.without the possibility of parole for aggravated murder. But longtime Cleveland Heights resident Lita Gonzales and others saw to it that West’s story didn’t end there.
Roughly two dozen scholarships later, the board restructured last year, shifting from high school seniors who had been enrolled in the former Heights High School Career Tech Criminal Justice program to cadets attending the Cleveland Heights Police Academy.for the pandemic and reactivated just this year, OJWMF organizers plan to hold their first fundraiser since 2019.
The event will feature raffle items from local merchants, food, games for kids, and more. All proceeds go directly to providing tuition reimbursement to graduates of the Cleveland Heights Police Academy. That could bring the whole initiative full circle, given the fact that West himself graduated from the Cleveland Heights Police Academy in 2000, after earning a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Tiffin University the year before.Gonzales also recalled setting up an OJWMF fundraising table some years back in the entrance lobby at Dave’s Market & Eatery , when a man walked up and introduced himself with a Jason West story that involved his grandson back when he was in grade school.
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