ASHLAND, OH – Dave Hunter, the Assistant Law Director of the Ashland Municipal Courts aided and abetted an Ashland County woman who threatened to kill her husband and then attempted to stab him as well as having attacked and abused the couples children. Dave Hunter reviewed police reports filed with the Ashland Police Department along with a plethora of “dropbox” files shared with the Prosecutors office and instead of proceeding with charges to safeguard the man and the couples four children he did the unimaginable! In turn, he committed ethical violations, neglected his sworn duty, engaged in official misconduct, obstructed official justice and violated constitutional and civil rights of the victim.
The following events transpired while the woman resided within a locked down psychiatric facility – the Hickory Behavioral Center in Cambridge, OH. Her placement was a direct result of her own actions: Dave Hunter, the Assistant Law Director, made initial contact with the woman in April of 2025 where he advised her to divorce the victim (husband), then attempted to represent her for said divorce and even tried to expunge her criminal record. He also had the husband’s victim advocate removed as a direct result of his actions. Interestingly enough, Hunter prosecuted the very same woman not even a year prior for misdemeanor falsification charges in Ashland Municipal Court where she was then sentenced and would wind up serving 30 days in the Ashland County Jail along with a one year probationary term for said charges – charges that she committed against her husband. Phone call conversations that transpired within the confines of the controlled facility would go on to show that Hunter only realized after a significant period of communicating that he could not represent the woman for her divorce as it would be a conflict of interest. He also would go on to state that he could not yet expunge her record as it required “one year from the conclusion of the case, and that also constitutes from the time of conviction and the ending of any sentence, including probationary terms”.
However, the aforementioned didn’t stop Hunter, instead he persisted in his aiding and abetting of the abuser in many other facets. Between April 2025 and May of 2025 Hunter engaged in no less than half a dozen conversations with the woman and throughout the course of her stay he would also direct her to external outlets and avenues that she would then utilize to retaliate against her husband. He offered a battered woman’s theory as well as extending a human trafficking narrative. The woman would then go on to relocate to a Domestic Violence shelter where she would continue to wreak havoc on her husband and their children. First, by stealing resources intended for the children, then, by threatening to rob the home, having the husband assaulted, and attempting to press fake harassment charges out of Mansfield and fake Human Trafficking charges out of Lorain County.
Hunter’s intervention had a direct emboldening effect on the woman that the head psychological doctor had, at that time and upon her arrival at Hickory, expressed as having “sociopathic” tendencies. As such, she was being treated for conditions ranging from Borderline Personality Disorder, Bi-Polar Disorder, PTSD and potentially Schizophrenia (she was heavily medicated at the time of these conversations with Hunter and others on Thorazine, Trazadone and Ativan) and well as having sexual relations with other patients at the psychiatric ward. She would then go on to install a stripper pole in her kitchen, get into a relationship with a drug dealer, fly to Las Vegas as part of an interstate commerce (human trafficking) event, stalk, harass and attack her husband, her children and their entire family along the way – all at the behest and direction of Dave Hunter.
In addition, as if the above outlined information isn’t disturbing enough, this isn’t the first time that the victim would find himself being attacked by Ashland’s local jurisdictions and law enforcement agencies. Take for example, the year prior, when his wife had two counts of falsification filed against her for making false statements to the police and falsely accusing her husband. The man was removed from his home for more than half a year pertaining to those falsifications and even after charging her they still refused to allow him to come back to his residence. After allowing him to return, they still made him continue to wear an ankle monitor with GPS capabilities – and that continued even when she was sentenced and would begin serving her jail time at the Ashland County Jail (the purpose of the GPS monitor was to prohibit his coming into her radius, based off of the falsified charges). Midway through that despicable debacle the Ashland Common Pleas Prosecutor offered him a “plea deal” to drop or reduce the fake charges (the first of any charges, fake or real he had ever had in Ashland County) if he would be willing to move out of Ashland County entirely…
This request for the move externally outside of the county in 2024 is interesting (discriminatory) as well as not even lawfully or legally binding, nor enforceable. Keeping in mind and considering the man in question had never committed a crime in Ashland in his entire life and the courts also knew he was being charged with fake crimes – as they had charged and ultimately convicted his wife. In addition, the courts were provided with her extensive mental health history as well as her past behavioral issues, situational data pertaining to the couple and their children throughout the duration of said fake court proceedings. However, even after doing so they refused to drop the charges against him for months (upwards of 9) in a deliberate effort to make him lose his home and or relocate, all while he watched loved ones pass away and his children continued to deteriorate from afar. It should be noted that the man’s business was also located at his residency that he was prohibited from returning to for a 6 month period as a result of the false charges. He was ultimately left with no choice but to take a plea deal in 2024 for a crime he never committed (and funny enough wasn’t even falsely accused of – a totally random charge for that matter unrelated in it’s entirety to the provable false allegations) an M1 – Assault. At the final court proceeding Common Pleas Judge David Stimpert stated via transcripts “I would like to say to you I am sorry, I apologize” in regards to the situation as it transpired, Judge Stimpert also went on to State “I really don’t know what happened here” in regards to the case and the situation in and of itself. Stimpert issued 0 days in jail and 0 days probation so the man could finally be released from ankle monitors and freely go about his life again.
READERS NOTE: Hunter was only aware of the woman’s placement into the facility because her husband had gone to the Ashland Police Department seeking help at prohibiting her immediate return. There were no extenuating circumstances with the woman having contacted the Law Director previously in regards to this situation or any other situation. During this timeframe the husband would also go to his wife’s probation office and was found to have been reiterating the same sentiment – keeping her from coming home too soon. Multiple trips in fact during the latter part of April 2025 show the husband not wanting to prosecute initially and then being advised by Ashland Police Department that the only way to prohibit her return to the household (treatment requires more than just 3-5 days) would be if he were to provide them with something tangible (this was before the husband discovered the Civil Protection Order ability, although he had been exploring options for a restraining order). APD informed the husband that they could pursue a light based charge such as M4 Menacing or a M4 Domestic Dispute. The husband then provided video surveillance evidence from the couples home security cameras showing the wife threatening to kill him as well as abhorrent behavior extensively directed towards that of their children. The Ashland Police Department then forwarded over the information received to the Prosecutors Office for potential criminal charges and this is how and where Dave Hunter entered the equation. As opposed to filing anything against the woman – such as; Menacing, Domestic Violence, Intimidation, Harassment, Child Abuse (or any of the plethora of other optionable charges), the Assistant Law Director, Dave Hunter, decided to aid and abet the woman to wreak more havoc on her husband and the family.
ABOUT DAVE HUNTER
Dave Hunter is a corrupt Assistant Law Director for the City of Ashland. He is a full time payroll employee that works one physical day a week, typically Friday’s at Ashland Muni. He can be reached at his Loudenville office located in Holmes County typically Monday-Thursday for matters pertaining to Ashland. His Loudenville office is home to his Law Office – The Dave Hunter Law Office. He is friends on Facebook with numerous criminal defense attorney’s and in some instances even with their parents.
AETOS SAYS: After having read this quite lengthy article numerous times, I am fully convinced that Dave Hunter is completely corrupt. For someone in his position to do what he did, to disregard the law, to partake in obvious bias and a clear targeted approach against the victim whilst intentionally pursuing a mental patient in a psychiatric ward (that he also had first hand knowledge of and that the courts have documented of her behavior as it transpired from within their own city jail while she was serving her sentence), to enable her behavioral patterns and embolden her is downright diabolical. May Dave Hunter become the hunted after this by all forms of legal inquisitions and ruling bodies humanely possible until justice is rightfully served. What a fucking worthless scumbag…
WHAT IS A LAW DIRECTOR? A law director is an elected position and a part of the city government’s official structure. The primary purpose of a county law director (also known as a county attorney or county counsel in some jurisdictions) is to serve as the chief legal advisor and representative for the county government and its various departments, boards, and officials. The law director acts as the in-house counsel for the county, not as a private attorney for individual citizens.
THE BOTTOM LINE
SCUMBAGGED TIP: In a nutshell the law director’s job is to determine if people should be prosecuted or not. Dave Hunter took multiple reports and evidence and disregarded them entirely and decided to attack the victim by intent. He also tried to represent the abuser in divorce proceedings, have her record expunged and directed her down many avenues in which she is still wreaking havoc through the court’s and elsewise against the victim. If anyone has anything to learn from this, it’s don’t do what Dave Hunter did. Follow the law, don’t overstep the law, don’t disregard the law and fulfill your duties as they are directed.
