YouTuber Tella Cline released a new video to her channel in which she said she used money she received from her subscribers to purchase audio copies of Glenn Cerio’s recent appearances in Snohomish County small claims court this month for three cases against Mukilteo based police officers.
The first of the recordings featured Cerio’s August 6, 2024, hearing where he went in trying to sue three Mukilteo officers but somehow ended up having five cases dismissed on the day.
Cline’s recording shed some light on the situation as Cerio’s case was called and he and the officers were sent into a room with a mediator. When mediation failed, the group reported back to the Judge what had happened.
The Judge immediately questioned the nature of the lawsuit as the claims against the officers were not appropriate to be heard in small claims court. She then informed Cerio that he would not receive a court date for the claims against the officers for that reason and informed him that he would have to refile the cases in an appropriate court.
Both the attorney for the officers and Cerio brought what Cerio called “the rest of the case” as he had a court date set with the same sort of filings against two more officers from Mukilteo. After looking at those two cases, the judge dismissed them as well, again instructing Cerio that he should find an appropriate venue should he refile them.
The ruling was a significant setback for Cerio, who apparently was using the small claims court cases to fuel his planned multimillion dollar federal lawsuits against the cities of Edmonds and Mukilteo. While he claimed he “served” representatives of both cities with paperwork for both federal lawsuits, the actual paperwork the representatives received were copies of the small claims court documents.
Cline and Cerio have been at odds for years as Cline has been the only reporter to consistently report on Cerio’s antics in the Seattle area. Her reporting has drawn his ire on several occasions in the past, with the lawsuit seen by many as his revenge on the reporter for countering claims he has made about his court cases in his dramatic YouTube videos.
Cerio has one more batch of cases for his current small claims court lawsuits, with late September hearings set for his suits against Cline herself and Edmonds Police worker Erica Bennett.
