Tella Cline posted a new video to her YouTube channel late Tuesday night with an update on Glenn Cerio’s latest loss in small claims court on Tuesday.
Cerio was trying to sue Officer Andy Mehl of the Edmonds, Washington, police force in an incident where Cerio was not arrested but was briefly detained as a suspect in a shoplifting incident at a supermarket.
The officer found Cerio walking near the supermarket and vaguely fit the description of the suspect, so he was briefly held by police. As more police arrived on the scene, Cerio claimed he was injured and needed to be transported to a local hospital.
Cerio sued Mehl in small claims court, along with other officers involved in his arrests over the years and claimed that he would be filing $50- and $100 million-dollar federal civil rights lawsuits against the cities of Mukilteo and Edmonds, Washington.
The Judge in the Mehl case threw out Cerio’s lawsuit on Tuesday as Cerio was found to have made an incomplete claim, having not met the requirements to file a claim against the city. Cerio was not present at the hearing.
Cline pointed out that this was Cerio’s eighth attempt at a lawsuit in small claims court and the eighth dismissal in the current series of lawsuits.
Cerio’s next court dates are for September 24, 2024, with his small claims court suit against Cline and against Everett Police worker Erica Bennett in individual cases involving the same material.
Bennett is a police worker who created an NCIC document on Cerio a few years ago. The document was a warning about Cerio’s then aggressive stance towards police and contained his driver’s license number and social security number as part of the identification process.
Cline posted an unredacted copy of the document in one of her videos about Cerio. She admits it was a mistake to put up the unredacted document and has since removed the video. However, she has held to her story that there was no malicious intent behind releasing the publicly available document and at no time used his information or directed her fans to use his information for malicious purposes.
Cerio is suing both women over the document, claiming that it could be used in stealing his identity, going so far as to accuse Cline of attempting to do so.
As evidence in the Bennett case, Cerio has offered screen shots of messages offering support for Bennett taken from the Everett Police Department’s Facebook page. He has also included screen shots of messages from Cline’s YouTube page, including multiple super thanks donations made to her, and a copy of a message from Experian indicating that he was one of 2.9 Billion people who may have had their data exposed in a recent security break.
Cerio has yet to file his Federal Civil Rights lawsuits.
