Teh One Who Knocks
03-03-2011, 10:33 PM
By Michael Sangiacomo, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
BRIMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A Ukranian Byzantine Catholic priest from Akron will face a Kent Municipal Court judge Friday on a drunken driving charge, but it's his actions while in the township's holding cell that are raising eyebrows.
Police Chief David Blough said the Rev. Ignatius Kury, 35, of the Holy Ghost Ukranian Byzantine Catholic Church on Brown Street in Akron, offered to have sex with the police officers and made numerous other sexual comments while in the township jail. He was released to a family member early Monday.
And police recorded the whole thing on video.
Blough said officers arrested Kury late Sunday after he drove his car into a swamp near Meloy and Sandylake roads.
"Officers responded to an accident and found the man in the back seat hiding under a coat," Blough said. "He was intoxicated, so they took him to the police station. While the officer was filling out a form, Kury looked at him and said, 'Is there anything on the form about your eyebrows? Because they are gorgeous.' "
He was placed in a holding cell while police contacted someone to pick him up. Police said he then exposed himself.
"We normally do not videotape our holding cells, but he was acting so strangely that we felt we should," Blough said. "He acted very strange until a family member came and picked him up."
Blough said Kury's blood-alcohol level was 0.20 percent, more than twice the legal limit.
"I feel bad for the guy, he just kept saying such outrageous things," Blough said. "At one point he said, 'What do I have do to get out of here, give you a ... [sexual act]?' Then he said that Oprah Winfrey would come after us for what we did to him. He also said he was trying out for 'American Idol.' "
Officials at the Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic diocese declined to comment. Kury could not be reached.
BRIMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A Ukranian Byzantine Catholic priest from Akron will face a Kent Municipal Court judge Friday on a drunken driving charge, but it's his actions while in the township's holding cell that are raising eyebrows.
Police Chief David Blough said the Rev. Ignatius Kury, 35, of the Holy Ghost Ukranian Byzantine Catholic Church on Brown Street in Akron, offered to have sex with the police officers and made numerous other sexual comments while in the township jail. He was released to a family member early Monday.
And police recorded the whole thing on video.
Blough said officers arrested Kury late Sunday after he drove his car into a swamp near Meloy and Sandylake roads.
"Officers responded to an accident and found the man in the back seat hiding under a coat," Blough said. "He was intoxicated, so they took him to the police station. While the officer was filling out a form, Kury looked at him and said, 'Is there anything on the form about your eyebrows? Because they are gorgeous.' "
He was placed in a holding cell while police contacted someone to pick him up. Police said he then exposed himself.
"We normally do not videotape our holding cells, but he was acting so strangely that we felt we should," Blough said. "He acted very strange until a family member came and picked him up."
Blough said Kury's blood-alcohol level was 0.20 percent, more than twice the legal limit.
"I feel bad for the guy, he just kept saying such outrageous things," Blough said. "At one point he said, 'What do I have do to get out of here, give you a ... [sexual act]?' Then he said that Oprah Winfrey would come after us for what we did to him. He also said he was trying out for 'American Idol.' "
Officials at the Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic diocese declined to comment. Kury could not be reached.