My protection order gives East Cleveland police officers and prosecutor Heather McCollough the authority to arrest and charge my stalker neighbor Sylvester Primous (36) for crimes on this website. But no matter how many times I show them the protection order and plead with them to obey it, and no matter how much evidence — what the protection order calls “reasonable grounds” — I give them, they refuse to arrest and prosecute my stalker.
NOTICE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT
If you are a law enforcement officer in any Ohio county, this protection order gives you the authority to “arrest and detain” stalker Sylvester Primous for crimes on this website before you have a warrant. If Primous did to your mother, sister, wife, or daughter what he’s done to me, what would you do?
This video shows Sylvester Primous violating his Civil Stalking Protection Order, as per Ohio Revised Code Section 2019.27, and violating East Cleveland prohibited playing of loud music ordinance 509.15, which East Cleveland police officers haven’t even cited him for. These are crimes Primous committed on October 21, November 24, and December 1 2024. On November 24, he made threats to cause me bodily harm. Videos of multiple additional crimes he has committed since then arehere. Primous blasting music in his driveway, which is next to my house, constitutes menacing because on February 12, 2024, I said, in East Cleveland court, in front of him, Judge William L Dawson, and Law Director Wilhemina Hemmings, that his illegally loud music has caused me mental distress since 2017. The protection order prohibits him from knowingly doing that.
Sylvester Primous, OH License Plate KIY 8120
Sylvester Primous, Menacing by Stalkng, License Plate Number OH KIY 8120
Background
On the morning of March 6, 2023, I arrived at the City of East Cleveland court for the pre-trial hearing for my next-door neighbor Sylvester Primous (36). He was charged with aggravated menacing for telling me “I’m going to kill you!” (because I told him to stop throwing trash in my yard), assault for punching my son in the face (because my son told him to get out of my yard), and criminal tresspassing for refusing to get out of my yard when my son told him to.
Prosecutor Heather McCollough didn’t charge Primous for firing a gun beneath my window, even though I had a recording on which you could hearhim talking before he fired it, and you couldhear the bullet casinghit the ground. Listen at 01:10:
I also had a recording of him threatening to retalialiate because I reported his death threat to the police. He said, “You done f*cked up now! Nice try, though!” He had fired his gun to make good on that threat, which is here:
“[Ms. Perry] makes much of the gunfire issue…Gunfire is a routine issue in East Cleveland…I did hear the gunshot on her video. She posted a video on her Facebook page telling everyone about this gunshot.”
East Cleveland Prosecutor Heather McCollough
However, what McCollough heard on Facebook was a recording of a recording. You can hear that the gun is nearby on the original (01:10).
I her letter, page 3, McCollough said, regarding the gunshot: “I find it odd that she happened to be awake at 2:00 a.m. to hear it.” This tracks with her complaint (letter page 2) that my written statement was “excessively wordy.” She said, “I didn’t need to read all that.” So she apparently never read about Primous’s house-shaking music like this:
Primous’s loud music had awakened me after 2 a.m. when I heard the gunshot, just like it had been doing ever since 2017 when I moved into my house. That’s when he first called me a “b*tch.” Why? Because, at 3 a.m., I tried to be neighborly by not calling the police and, instead, politely asked him to turn his music down.
Back to the pretrial hearing: The baliff refused to allow me into the courtroom, even though I told him I was the victim. I had never been to criminal court. I didn’t know what happened at pre-trial hearings. I naively thought that, because Primous did the things he was accused of doing, he would be punished for doing them. I went home.
To my horror, that afternoon, when Primous arrived home, he stood in front of my living room window, looked at me, and yelled: “MAGGOT B*TCH!”
Confused, I wondered why Primous had the nerve to curse at me after being punished for what he’d done to me and my son. I called McCollough. She told me that she hadn’t been available for court; so her boss, Law Director Wilhemina Hemmings, had taken her place. McCollough said Hemmings had accepted a plea of disorderly conduct from Primous for menacing me, and that his criminal tresspassing charge had been dismissed. She said she was going forward with charging him for assaulting my son, and he’d be sentenced at a later date. When I told her Primous had just called me a “Maggot B*tch,” she said:
“Ms. Perry, just ignore it. I have problems with my neighbors too.”
East Cleveland Prosecutor Heather McCollough
I felt like I’d been punched in the gut. I knew Primous would keep menacing me.
Desperate, on March 17, 2023, I posted a video with a Change.org petition asking the public to contact McCollough and Hemmings and urge them to go forward with charging Primous for menacing me.
Change.org petition video posted March 17, 2023
After Primous saw my video, he sent me this message on Facebook:
After I posted the video, McCollough posted multiple comments on my Facebook profile about my case. This is a screen grab of her “liking” this comment from the mother of Primous’s children: “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.”
This is a screenshot of McCollough saying, on my Facebook profile, that she was charging Primous with assault for punching my son.
On April 13, 2023, contrary to what McCollough told me she would do and what she posted on Facebook saying she would do, she accepted a plea of disorderly conduct for assaulting my son from Primous. I believe she did it to punish me for publicizing how she and Hemmings didn’t try to get Primous put in jail where he belonged for menacing me. He went home without punishment.
On February 12, 2024, Primous faced Judge William L. Dawson for firing his gun beneath my window for the third time.* Officer Durda had found five bullet casings in Primous’s yard immediately after I reported hearing five gunshots fired from there and seeing Primous pace back and forth in front of his SUV afterwards. In court, neither Durda nor Hemmings, who served as prosecutor, said the casings were dusted for fingerprints. This makes me think this Evidence 101 procedure had been skipped. Dawson found Primous not guilty.
In March, Primous fired his gun beneath my window after midnight for the fourth time. Demoralized, I just covered my head with my pillow. I didn’t even bother to report it.
(*Primous fired his gun beneath my window the second time in June or July 2023. I made a police report, but didn’t file a complaint with the prosecutor).
Current Allegations
From Spring to Fall 2024, Primous kept throwing trash in my yard and blasting house-shaking music day and night — like he later did on Christmas Eve 2024. Eventually, I started reporting him again.
December 24, 2024 — This is how Primous celebrated Christmas Eve for almost an hour. Our street is always quiet, except when he blasts music:
When I made a formal complaint to McCollough on December 1, 2024, I emailed her a link to a version of the video at the top of this page. On it, you can see Primous violating hisprotection order. He throws a bottle onto my lawn on October 21, and says, “I can throw trash in this yard whenever the f*ck I want to!” on November 24, 2024.
He threatens to f*ck me up, among other threats of doing me bodily harm, on November 24.
He plays house-shaking music for TWO HOURS STRAIGHT on December 1.
For over two years, when I told McCollough Primous was throwing trash in my yard, she told me the wind blew it there. But when I gave her videos of him chucking a bottle on my lawn, and saying “I can throw trash in this yard whenever the f*ck I want to!” she didn’t charge him with violating his protection order. Instead, in her December 16 email, she told me that she did this:
“I was able to reach Mr. Primous and warned him about his behaviors.”
Obviously, McCollough has Primous’s back. The evidence I’ve posted here shows it, including samples of her multiple emails to me dating from 2023 to the present, which I’ve saved. However, I also wonder if Primous has buddies on the East Cleveland police force or higher up. More than once, as soon as I made a police report, he ramped up his menacing. On November 24, 2024, he said officers told him: “I can do whatever the f*ck I want to do in my yard as long as I’m not bothering her.”
The thing is, Primous has been “bothering” me from his yard for almost eight years and I’ve made several police reports about it. In fact, in violation of his protection order and East Cleveland law, earlier that very morning — from 2 am. to 3 a.m — he sat in his driveway playing house-shaking music. That “bothered” me — a lot.
In a December 19, 2024 email, McCollough told me to report Primous while he’s playing law-breaking music so officers can come cite him on the spot.
I replied that, the many times I’ve done that, either officers haven’t shown up or Primous has stopped playing music by the time they do or he stopped when he saw them coming. In East Cleveland, drivers get speeding tickets based solely on video evidence. How does it make sense that — despite officers and McCollough being provided with multiple videos of Primous breaking the law — he hasn’t been cited once? People have been sentenced to life in prison — or worse — based on less evidence.
Some officers have treated me with kindness and respect. But others have laughed at me, rolled their eyes, or glared as if I offended them. On May 26, 2024, a Corporal Moore went ballistic on me, virtually accusing me of committing the “felony” of making a false report. She had a conversation about me with a random man in the station lobby.
After I gave McCollough the video that included a clip of Primous throwing a bottle on my lawn and saying,“I can throw trash in this yard whenever the f*ck I want to!” it seems that, just like she refused to review my evidence in my first case, she didn’t bother to review it this time. In her December 16, 2024 email she said:
“I went back and reviewed the videos again. I did miss the bottle throwing the first time.”
East Cleveland Prosecutor Heather McCollough
The only way to “miss” part of three-minuite video is to not watch it.
Here, Primous admits that he knowsmysurveillance camera records him breaking the law and that I hear and see him talking about me:
Why should he care that he’s recorded committing crimes? He gets away with it. He said this and more will happen to me if we go to court: “Your dumb ass about to get f*cked again!”
Hemmings and a clerk from the Cuyahoga County Justice Center told me, respectively, that Primous has been arrested for beating his mother and the mother of his children, but they both refused to press charges. My determination is that being punished for his crimes against me will deter him from abusing women, and will compell him to get mental health support.
I looked up “How can you tell if a city is corrupt?” Two answers were: People who break laws aren’t punished and people who are bad at their jobs aren’t fired. My son and daughters have urged me to leave East Cleveland. That’s what they did. But I have a right to live here like I have since 1992. Who must leave East Cleveland are so-called public servants who betray the residents they are supposed to work for by letting criminals like Primous prey on them.
