June 2003: Macomb County Commissioner Roland Fraschetti
Macomb County official to undergo counseling
Detroit Free Press
December 23, 2003
BY ALEXA CAPELOTO
http://www.freep.com/news/locmac/comm23_20031223.htm
A Macomb County commissioner is to spend 30 weeks in domestic violence counseling under a plea deal stemming from a June confrontation with his girlfriend that ended in a car collision.
Roland Fraschetti, a St. Clair Shores Republican, pleaded guilty Friday to reckless driving, a 90-day misdemeanor. The charge will be reduced to careless driving, a civil infraction, if he successfully completes the counseling.
Fraschetti was accused of backing his SUV into his girlfriend's Saturn sedan with such force that it rolled onto the hood of the smaller car. The two had just argued and were in the driveway of a St. Clair Shores home owned by Fraschetti. No one was seriously injured.
"The victim didn't want me to charge him at all," said Joseph McCarthy Jr. of the St. Clair County Prosecutor's Office, which handled the case because of Fraschetti's position in Macomb County. "I told her I have to do something to make sure this doesn't happen again."
A judge will take Fraschetti's guilty plea under advisement while the commissioner attends weekly group counseling sessions run by Catholic Social Services of St. Clair County. Any failure to finish the program could result in a reckless driving conviction.
Sebastian Lucido, Fraschetti's attorney, said his client considers the deal a proper end to what essentially was a car accident. "They got into an argument and it got heated, but he never laid a finger on her," Lucido said. "The man does not have a violent bone in his body."
What really happened, Lucido said, is that "she was in a car behind him and just pulled up. When he hit the car, he was at fault."
With the careless driving infraction, Fraschetti faces three points on his driving record and a $100 fine. He must also pay $750 for the counseling program, which is the same one Commissioner Kurt Kramer was ordered into after pleading no contest to assaulting his wife in June.
Contact ALEXA CAPELOTO at 586-469-4935 or capeloto@freepress.com.
Sunday, June 1, 2003
06012003 - Firefighter Matthew Cook - OIDV Offender Update - Wayland FD
In June 2003, Wayland Firefighter Matthew Cook pled guilty to threatening his ex-girlfriend with a knife during a domestic assault. Cook was placed on probation and allowed to keep his job as a firefighter with the city of Wayland.
On February 23, 2004, while Firefighter Cook was still on probation for the 2003 domestic violence assault, he was caught downloading child pornography on a Wayland Fire Department computer. He was fired from the Wayland FD, and sentenced to 120 days in jail and 3 years probation.
On April 01, 2004, former Firefighter Cook sexually assaulted his ex-girlfriend. He was tried and sentenced for the crimes in 2008. Cook, "...engaged in a prolonged pattern of sexual abuse, which routinely involved choking complainant, pulling her hair, and subjecting her to abusive language, well supported the conclusion that defendant had treated complainant with conduct "designed to substantially increase the fear and anxiety," or subjecting her to "extreme or prolonged . . . humiliation . . . inflicted to produce suffering or for the offender’s gratification...That a knife threat eventually capped this campaign of intimidation and humiliation ..."
On March 01, 2008, former firefighter Matthew Cook was arrested for seeking the assistance of a prostitute in finding him a young girl. Cook also wanted the prostitute to hold the young girl down while he raped her.
ALSO SEE:
FIREFIGHTER MATTHEW COOK. March 01, 2007: Child pornography.
Matthew Cook appeals possible life sentence
By Advance Newspapers
December 21, 2009, 11:27AM
http://www.mlive.com/penaseeglobe/index.ssf/2009/12/matthew_cook_appeals_possible.html
Court of Appeals has ruled for Cook’s resentencing. Cook is currently in prison after attempting to hire a Grand Rapids prostitute to bring him a child between the ages of 10 and 12, for sexual purposes.
Cook pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit first-degree criminal sexual conduct and attempting to procure and act of gross indecency between a male and female.
According to the Court of Appeals, Cook was sentenced as a “sexually delinquent person,” for seven years to life on the gross indecency conviction and as a second habitual offender, to a concurrent prison sentence of three to five years for the solicitation conviction. He was sentenced for the March 1, 2008 offense on Aug. 28, 2008.
On Dec. 10, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Cook’s resentencing because of errors in procedural requirements regarding Cook’s sexual delinquency determination.
A former Wayland volunteer firefighter, Cook served jail time for using a computer at the city’s Public Safety Building to access child sexually abusive material on the Internet.
Cook also has three active prison sentences for Allegan County CSC offenses committed on April 1, 2004, for which he was sentenced on April 4, 2008 after a jury trial. He is serving up to 10 years for CSC assault with intent to commit sexual penetration, up to 15 years for CSC 3rd degree (force or coercion) and up 15 years for CSC 3rd degree (force or coercion).
Volunteer firefighter charged with child pornography
WTNH TV NEWS
March 16, 2004, 5:57 p.m.
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1715181
... Cook, a volunteer firefighter in Wayland, turned himself into police on Tuesday, was charged in court, and later returned home.... Cook said very little as he was charged in court.
His ex-girlfriend was there to watch and told 24 Hour News 8 she knew about the problem for a long time and hoped Cook would get help. She said Cook knew what he was doing was wrong....
We also learned that Cook is currently on probation for a domestic violence charge he pled guilty to in June in Ottawa County. If convicted on these latest felony charges, he could face additional jail time for violating his probation.
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