YouTuber and “internet auditor” Glenn Cerio’s plan to sue officers from the Mukilteo, Washington police department over arrests two years ago failed on Monday as all five of his small claims court cases against the officers were thrown out, according to YouTuber and Glenn Cerio expert Tella Cline.
Cerio had the first three of five scheduled mediation hearings with an attorney representing the officers at the small claims court on Tuesday which Cline reported resulted in no agreements by the parties and instead, saw the Judge throw out all Cerio’s claims against the officers with prejudice.
Three of his police related lawsuits were from an incident where he was arrested at a Mukilteo police station on January 14, 2022. He had added a specific charge against Officer Danielle Ball of accepting “bribery gifts” as she was sent a gift basket by YouTubers as an apology on behalf of the YouTubers for Cerio’s behavior; Cerio equated that as a bribe that led to his arrest.
YouTuber Cerio had previously aired video of himself serving officials of the city of Mukilteo with a small claims court summons, which he would later claim to be service for $50,000,000.00 federal civil rights lawsuits against the cities. Cerio has yet to produce any federal civil rights lawsuits.
With the dismissal of the two batches of police lawsuits, and no sign of Cerio’s planned federal lawsuits, the only thing left on the horizon for Cerio are his lawsuits against Everett Washington police, Tella Cline herself and Everett police department criminal analyst Erica Bennett.
Correcting our previous coverage, Cline is being sued by Cerio for distributing an unredacted copy of a 2019 police bulletin written by Erica Bennett and airing it on her YouTube channel. In her latest video, Cline explains that she no longer remembers where she got the bulletin from but aired it as news and without malicious intent.
Cerio has threatened to sue Bennett for $100,000,000.00 in federal court for her production of the document as it contained his social security number and his driver’s license number in order to help officers identify Cerio. It is unclear how it was distributed to the public.
In all of the dismissed small claims court cases, Cerio was seeking $10,000.00 from individually named officers for “loss of wages.”
