ASHLAND, OH – Jeffrey Honaker is a corrupt attorney as well as a “fixer” that practices law in Ashland County Ohio. He recently conspired against his own client leaving him to do all the lawyering in one hearing, not responding to text messages for months on end, shared personal screenshots to members of the prosecution and even went as far as getting his client two additional charges as well as getting his bond revoked.  The charges stem from the client asking Honaker to recuse himself from his case, citing misconduct and malpractice as the major reasons.  This opened up the avenue for the courts to further “hang themselves” and utilize Honaker in their retaliatory tactics against his client.  It should be noted that this article is part of a larger targeting and retaliation exposè that has spanned more than 2 years against a resident of Ashland.  There are nearly a half dozen investigations underway by multiple agencies as of this writing.

MEDIA NOTE:  This article contains videos as well as screenshots pertaining to Attorney Honaker and his client embedded within.

On any given day of the week attorney Honaker can be found walking through the hallway’s of the Ashland Municipal Courthouse where he handles hundreds (if not thousands) of cases per year, predominantly as a public defender.  The question looms as to how many of his clients he has failed to represent adequately by intent over time, but in this case it is evident that Honaker clearly conspired against his own client and did so as part of a seemingly never ending targeting campaign.

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The new charges that his client faces are obvious and deliberate retaliatory tactics being deployed due to an article that was featured here on Scumbagged against Ashland Common Pleas Judge Emily Bates dated December 24, 2025.  Much of the targeting comes at the behest of Dave Hunter (the Assistant Law Director), Judge John L. Good (the presiding Judge), several members of law enforcement and other appointed judiciary members located within the confines of the Ashland Municipal and Common Pleas courthouses.  This system uses these fixers like pawns (police officers, attorney’s, prosecutors, etc).  Take Honaker for example, at face value and to the untrained eye he’s an accredited and respectable attorney with no blemishes, this however is merely a facade as this article will clearly demonstrate.  The powers that be in Ashland and their objective(s), which is to in-part hide their true underlying criminality amidst a bunch of fabrications, fake charges amongst more fake charges, intimidation, threats, harassment and so on that Attorney Honaker just helped to further disseminate. 

The following timeline of events is in regards to Attorney Jeffrey Honaker, a “Fixer”:  

• October 17, 2025: Honaker was appointed by the Ashland Municipal Court as attorney for his client stemming from a M1 Obstruction charge.  Watch a brief video of the event.
  • Shortly after receiving the case Honaker discovered there were clear case law violations that he and his client discussed together.
    • 1.) His client had not committed any crimes or traffic violations that would have warranted police interaction and therefore the stop was unlawful.
    • 2.) The police had “mistaken” him for having a felony warrant, when in fact he had no felony warrant or any warrants that were extraditable and therefore the police exercised extreme force without cause.
    • 3.)  His client had pulled over immediately.
    • 4.)  The police did not approach the vehicle, which would be standard for an individual expecting a traffic violation and instead they stayed at the rear several car lengths away from his clients vehicle, even after he had come to a complete stop and turned off his vehicle.
    • 5.)  After the police failed to approach and identify themselves, his client opened the sunroof, alongside multiple recording devices, and began trying to communicate with officers.
    • 6.)  It was evident from both the client and the Ashland Police Department that neither the APD nor his client could fully understand one another (this was discerned via multiple recordings taken at the time of the incident by both client and the APD).  The officer also wrote in his report that the defendant could not hear their commands due to the unique nature of the stop.
    • 7.)  Within approximately two minutes of the illegal stop his client exited the vehicle and complied fully with the APD, being instructed to get on his knees with his hands on his head as weapons were drawn on him and he was placed under arrest – again, for no active felony warrants or extraditable offenses.
    • 8.)  His clients vehicle was towed and he was taken to the Ashland County Jail.  His dog (which was also in the vehicle at the time of the arrest) was taken to the pound.
    • 9.)  Client was released immediately that morning as no felony warrants were in the system and he was then unlawfully charged with misdemeanor obstruction.
• October 31, 2025: Honaker represented his client in court across from Assistant Law Director Dave Hunter.  Honaker expressed there was no obstruction to the court, whereas Hunter expressed there was resisting arrest.  The judge ordered another pre-trial.
• November 11, 2025: Honaker represented (if you wish to call it as such) his client in court again.  This time the court had remarks from the presiding Judge, Judge John L. Good, who stated in open court that the charge should not be Obstruction or Resisting Arrest but rather “Failure to Comply” in response to a short exchange that transpired with the prosecutor.  The Judge then asked the Prosecutor if there were felony warrants for the defendants arrest at the time of being stopped, to which the Prosecutor replied “Yes, he had felony warrants”.  Honaker said nothing and instead looked at his client who exclaimed “That’s not true, no I didn’t”.  To which Judge John L. Good replied “You will respect this court or I’ll throw you next door in contempt for 30 days, and don’t forget you have to maintain compliance on your personal bond or I can revoke it as well”.  When asked if the defendant would be willing to waive his fast and speedy trial rights, Honaker again looked at his client to which his client responded “No your honor”.  Judge John L. Good then responded verbally from the bench “Of course you wouldn’t”.  Honaker was entirely absent at this hearing in every way, except for physically.
  • Trial date was then set for 1/28/2026 with no further court proceedings scheduled to take place during the interim.
    • Throughout the remainder of November and December attorney Honaker was contacted numerous times via text message and was nearly entirely unresponsive.  Honaker made no further attempts to discuss the case and he did not attempt to dismiss the case based on clear case law as was originally discussed.  Honaker did not provide his client with the motion of discovery either – which was also previously discussed.
    • In December Honaker began sharing personal text messages between his client and other members within the confines of the Ashland County Municpal Courthouse through screenshots taken during the month of December.  Client reasonably then determined that Honaker was not attempting to represent him and asked his attorney to recuse himself.
• December 22, 2025: Honaker files a motion to withdraw as counsel at clients request.  Hearing set for 12/29/2025.
• December 22, 2025:  Client publishes video to his TikTok documenting how retaliatory steps will be taken against him here.
• December 24, 2025:  Ashland Judge Emily Bates article is published here.
• December 26, 2025:  Honaker sends a text message to his client at 6pm informing him of the hearing scheduled for 12/29, more than 4 days have passed since he was made aware of the new court date.  Client immediately responds and informs Honaker that he cannot attend because he has prior obligations with another jurisdiction.
• December 27, 2025:  Honaker responds with a willingness to provide the motion for discovery and to reschedule the hearing to Wednesday.
• December 29, 2025: Honaker sends a text message to his client asking if he will be able to make the court hearing scheduled that afternoon.  Client immediately responded that they were still at their appointment at the behest of another jurisdiction.  This is the final text message sent to the client.
• December 29, 2025:  Bond revoked.
• December 30, 2025: Warrant issued for failure to appear.
• January 8, 2026: Contempt of court issued.
• January 11, 2026:  Client is informed by a law enforcement agency of multiple warrants for their arrest.   Client then contacted Honaker asking him why he didn’t inform him as to this…

The easiest tell-tale sign that Honaker is corrupt (outside of this article and what he did to his own client) is his manipulative tactics to get clients to waive their right to a fast and speedy at a nearly 95% client rate.  Doing this is NOT in the clients best interest and Honaker knows it.  This is because unlike other large court jurisdictions across the U.S. where it is customary to be overloaded due to extensive criminal activity transpiring within the confines of a large jurisdictional authority, Ashland is a small city in comparison.  Smaller than that of North Ridgeville as an example, yet produces as much “criminals” and traffic citations as that of Elyria with less than half the population.  The overloading isn’t even a direct result of simply over indicting, but blatant false charges in many cases and an over policing of the highway’s and city streets against would be traveler’s resulting in millions of dollars per year in revenue.  Revenue that individuals such as Honaker, Hunter and co., get deposited directly into their coffers.  One hand washing the others via court appointments and their own individual law firms.

HONAKER’S RECUSAL

Attorney Honaker was asked to remove himself from his clients case (for the plethora of reasons outlined above).  Honaker proceeded to recuse himself and the Ashland court docket shows that the court date was set on 12/22/2025.  It took Honaker an additional four days (a Friday evening mind you) to reach out to his client to inform him of this new and unbeknownst hearing.  Client promptly informed Honaker that he could not meet at that time due to prior obligations (one hour later).  Honaker then went on to proceed anyways at the hearing which then resulted in failure to appear, contempt of court and having his clients bond revoked on his initial fake case.  Honaker never even mentioned to his client as to the events that were transpiring, because it was all by design and done so with intent.  Honaker instead made mention of the fact that Wednesday could possibly work better.

VIOLATION OF ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGES:  Honaker shared screenshots and videos from his personal cellphone device throughout the course of the case, specifically in December with prosecutors and other members of the Ashland County courts (his friends) that were in the midst of prosecuting his own client.  TikTok videos and other ramblings via E2EE messages that his client had sent all of which were a direct violation of attorney client privileges and simply shed further light into the nefarious nature of this “Fixer”.

THE “FIXERS” FRIENDS

The fixer Honaker is friends with Dave Hunter, Assistant Law Director, on his personal Facebook account as well as Judge John L. Good and Judge David Stimpert.  Digging a bit deeper, Attorney Honaker’s father is also friends with David Hunter (the Assistant Law Director) on Facebook as well.  Honaker has been visibly seen at unrelated events, family affairs and even out to lunch in dozens of instances (Union Town & Southstreet Grille, to name a few) outside of a formal capacity with these individuals.

READERS NOTE:  Ohio law does not bar an attorney from having friends on Facebook with individuals that are across the isle, however some states have outlawed it entirety due to the nature of such “closeness” and what it entails.  With that being said, investigatory boards treat situations such as this with an accusatory eye even without any of the aforementioned being at play.

ARTICLE UPDATE 1/12/2026 @ 17.54:  Just merely a few hours after this article ran there was a conference/discussion held between numerous individuals regarding this article with some of those directly involved (and some not yet involved, which will be forthcoming).  Urging one another to hide their friends from public view, refrain from meeting outside of court and to keep their conversations limited to behind courthouse doors, also known as  “scrubbing”, amongst a host of other diabolical dialogues.  Mentions of doubling down and expletive laced rhetoric towards the client in this case were also present.  Erasures of group chats, personal chats, messages and social media changes have already been documented, specifically in regards to Judge John L. Good.

THE BOTTOM LINE

If you or anyone you know has been targeted or a victim to Ashland County Common Pleas, Ashland Municipal Court, Ashland Police Department or any member or active extension of the governing body of the city of Ashland you are urged to contact us immediately.  You can do so by emailing us, texting or calling us or submitting an article.  All communications are encrypted, secure, confidential and will be entirely anonymous unless you so chose to come forward publicly.

SCUMBAGGED TIP:  Honaker being silent, failing to work on the behalf of his client, his intentional deception when it came to the court hearing and the delay to relay the date was done by design.  Culminate that with the fact that Honaker is friends with the wrong side of the isle from a criminal defendants point of view in every sense of the manner.  Whether it be compromising exchanges that violate attorney client privilege through messages or social media apps, intentionally steering clients away from not waving their right to a fast and speedy, or receiving kickbacks in the kidnap and extortion scheme of would be innocent citizens of Ashland and elsewhere.  Honaker’s corruption stems from his Ashland roots, born and raised in the city of Ashland like his father and his father before him and his willingness to help prop up the city’s illegal and illicit criminal enterprise – the kangaroo court in and of itself.  Just a small part of the moving mechanism of madness that comprises the archaic way of doing things with this mob like mentality.  There is no tip to give to these people.  The tip is the article in and of itself. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely in the case of Attorney Honaker and the Ashland County courts.

AËTOS SAYS:  He should be disbarred and never allowed to practice law again for what he did to just this one client alone (not taking into account what we would suspect are the hundreds of others misrepresented out there).  In addition, we already knew retaliation was coming, we just didn’t know how, well now we do in the form of this fixer.