Deemed Unfit, a Cuyahoga Deputy Was Hired Anyway

Deemed Unfit, a Cuyahoga Deputy Was Hired Anyway

Deputy Isen Vajusi struggled with confidence, stress and field training before being forced out of the suburbs. He’s now on the sheriff’s downtown safety patrol.

Deemed unfit, a Cuyahoga deputy was hired anyway

A Cuyahoga County sheriff’s deputy involved in separate shootings of two teenagers while assigned to a controversial downtown patrol unit was once deemed unfit by a suburban police force, an investigation by The Marshall Project – Cleveland and News 5 Cleveland has found. During a nine-month stint with the Mentor Police Department, personnel records show Isen Vajusi failed his field training, lacked confidence, had “difficulty in stressful situa…

Cuyahoga deputy who shot at two teens was deemed unfit for suburban force – The Land

Sheriff’s Deputy Isen Vajusi, on the left in the back row, shot a teenager in the leg in October 2024 and fired four rounds at another teenager on May 16. He was not injured. The Mentor Police Department deemed Vajusi unfit to be an officer in 2021. [Mark Puente/The Marshall Project] This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project – Cleveland, a nonprofit news team covering Ohio’s criminal justice systems, and News 5 Clevelan…