Ashli Ford cries wolf; victims cry foul
Probation Dept. gets complaints asserting that she's filing false police reports, making inaccurate claims
SANDUSKY — Ashli Ford is betting her freedom on the First Amendment, but her alleged victims say she’s already violated the terms of her stay-out-of-jail card.
At least three complaints have been made to the Erie County probation department alleging Ford is using social media the same way she did when committing crimes she was convicted of in May 2025, intimidating Norwalk city officials.
Ford, in a September 2023 Facebook post, told the mayor, the law director, the police chief and the safety director she would “lead them to their demise more akin to Malcom X than Martin Luther King Jr.” Prosecutors said Ford made the threat and was demanding officials get previous criminal charges against her dropped, according to court filings.
One of the complaints made to the probation department about Ford comes from a Huron County woman whose daughter died in a mysterious, fiery one-car crash in 2018. She said she has repeatedly asked Ford to stop representing herself as an advocate for her family.
