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Correctional Officer Darick Hearn - Stabbed man who was with his ex-girlfriend
On March 11, 2006 Flint Police Officer Wordie Johnson was stabbed by Correction Officer Darick Hearn. Hearn had attacked Johnson, because Johnson was with his former girlfriend.
Former prison guard sentenced to probation for knife fight
Posted by Paul Janczewski
The Flint Journal
November 19, 2007 17:30PM
http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/newsnow/2007/11/former_prison_guard_sentenced.html
FLINT -- A former state prison guard was sentenced to probation and a tether in a March 2006 knife fight about a woman with an off-duty Flint cop.
Darick Hearn, 44, of Flint, apologized before his sentencing and begged Genesee Circuit Judge Judith A. Fullerton to give him another chance after the "freak incident."
"I was in love with the wrong woman," Hearn said.
Fullerton sentenced Hearn to two years probation and 180 days on tether, which will allow him to continue working for a local package delivery company.
Hearn earlier pleaded no contest to carrying a weapon with unlawful intent, a 5-year felony. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dismissed a 10-year assault felony.
The incident occurred about 5:30 a.m. March 11, 2006, when Hearn went to his ex-girlfriend's home near Titan Street and Coldwater Road in Mt. Morris Township and found Wordie Johnson, an off-duty Flint police officer, there.
At an earlier hearing, Johnson said Hearn tried to punch him as he left the residence of a woman with whom Hearn had a long-time relationship.
Johnson, then a 12-year Flint Police Department veteran who was on administrative leave before this incident but remains on the force now, said as they tussled, Hearn stabbed him up to seven times in his back, side and leg.
At the time, Hearn was a state prison guard working at the Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer County with 11 years with the state Department of Corrections.
Attorney Frank J. Manley, who represented Hearn, called the entire incident an "unmitigated disaster."
He said Hearn was fired from the DOC after working there 13 years.
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