Bob, Weave, Dodge: Sheriff Levorchick endorses 'top investigatory tactics'

Complaint about improper relationship between school employee and student being investigated at desk where nobody works

PORT CLINTON — When you ask a law enforcement agency about an investigation into the potential grooming of a child, you expect a list of actions. You expect to hear about interviews conducted, evidence processed, and prosecutors consulted.

This photo is from October shows Sheriff Steve Levorchick at a campaign rally in October 2025. Levorchick was unavailable on Thursday and on Friday to address questions about a report that a complaint against a school employee was never investigated by his office. (Photo/ GOP campaign page)

Instead, a recent Q&A with Ottawa County Sheriff’s Captain Aaron Leist reveals a startling reality: The “investigation” into a Put-in-Bay school employee appears to be a series of checked boxes with no one behind the pen. It was begun five months ago and the entire public record for it is one page — two paragraphs.

And, if you read between the lines of the Sheriff’s official response that Leist sent earlier today, a disturbing pattern of investigative avoidance emerges.

1. The ‘Ghost’ Investigator