As a former offficer of Martins Ferry I will never be able to feel pride in once serving the city. Everytime someone sees a MFPD cruiser or uniform all they will see is the shame Carpenter poisoned his department with by his horrible actions. I just hope that the citizens of MF wont judge all the officers, there are still good cops there.

Barry, How dare you put that kind of evil on your children by swearing on their eyes. Wtf is the matter with you? I'm upset you didn't get the full 21 years that you deserve. How can you receive stolen property without stealing it from someones house? That's an ox and a moron.

Well Diana i think its funny how your calling us Dumb A's, and frankly you think hes inncent? Well maybe you should get your facts straight.......he was GUILTY on 3 counts! Boy that seems innocent to me. If your such a concerned friend maybe you should hire him a better lawyer!!!! He screwed up his own life not us Dumb A's people,so get the facts.

karma wrote: "..now you cant try n piece tapes together nemore to try and frame someone for something they didnt do..."

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT???????? Are you serious? Please say it aint so! All you Martins Ferry people need to unite and get a civil suit going stat!

now aint that something you get what you deserve...now you cant try n piece tapes together nemore to try and frame someone for something they didnt do...haha rot in jail barry..u reep what u sow as they say..finally glad they got one dirty cop...hope they get the next 1 too...

1 dirty cop down, 1 to go!!! dojack you;re on deck!!! just the fact he can never be a cop again thrills me. even if he gets little or no jail time, the humiliation will eat at him every day.feel sorry for his children though, they will have to suffer also. karma ain;t it a bitch???

ok..lol. next we will blame the banks for having money in them if someone robs them. well, if the money is not there, then there would be no crime? diana get a clue. this women presented someone with God's most precious gift. A child. it is not the surrogate who is on trial here. it is a law breaker. shif the blame some more, one day you may have a good point.

I see alot of people didn't know the REAL Barry Carpenter! He's been a sneak for a long time, but FINALLY got caught! And shame on him swearing on his childrens eyeballs I hope he get the full 10yrs he's facing!!

Wow Diana you really have something against surrogates. I bet that you would be ok with them if you desperatley wanted a child and needed one. Once again you have proven my point, it is never the criminals fault. How dare people be victims of crime. Keep up the good work of shifting the blame to the victims, afterall its thier fault they were victims. Maybe you should apply for the Chief of Police position in Ferry, they need a strong willed person like you to shift the blame to someone else.

Listen you bunch of dumb -A's it was they citzens of Belmont County that was on the jury and found him not guilty. It wasn't the court system so get the facts, and frankly I think he is innocent of all charges. this baby boomer knows the chances when you do something loke she does. She so use to giving away kids that she doesn't even have her own. So let's screw up a cop's life because she has a messed up life. Get the facts people!!

Public officials, and often police, come to the conclusion that they are somehow above the law. Carpenter testified that way, admitting that he had gone into the house (illegally) but wanted to excuse it by saying that one of the two pictures he took didn't come out...so I guess that made it not a crime. His mother was even more bizzare, after the verdfict she said they were treating her son like a criminal. Duh!! He is a criminal and what is worse, he is someone who used his authority and power to commit crimes for which he expected to get paid thousands of dollars. He IS a criminal lady and he shamed his department and town. On Bloomquist what was she saying about if they think they are going to fire him...well the law requires that he be fired...did she think he was going to remain Chief with an ankle bracelot on him??? He had no respect for his position or the law that he thought he owned instead of enforcing.

Gotta love the two people who didnt want to go on camera but based on their comments if the surrogate didnt live in Ferry then the Police Chief wouldnt have broken the law. I guess thats the new excuse for shifting the accountability for someone breaking the law by blaming the victim. So the next time News 7 or 9 report a home invasion I guess if they didnt live in that house then the criminal wouldnt have broken in their house. Barry Carpenter did the crime now let him do the time. He broke his oath to the citizens of Martins Ferry and that is unacceptable. Then again if no one lived in Ferry then criminals wouldnt have the right to break the laws there. Afterall its the victims fault they were the object of criminal activity.

Time @11/23/09 at 7:38 PM wrote,

"Michelle Ross isn't the only wronged person in Martins Ferry, but it appears as though she is the only one who actually got some help. I want to know why? "
You understand that most people don't have the means to take on a city police department and they're afraid of what comes after a formal complaint. They don't know where to go--the sheriff's department has been proven to be more than a little shady too. They might not have tangible proof--it's a police officer's word against a citizen. Who will believe you if you complain?

WHAT ARE YOUR VALUES AND EXPECTATIONS? REMEMBER ALL THIS THE NEXT ELECTION. EVEN THOUGH WE MAY HAVE HAD HIGHER EXPECTATIONS, AND WERE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE COURT TRANSCRIPT UNLESS WE SAT IN THE COURT ROOM - IT APPEARS THE PROSECUTING STAFF DID NOT PRESENT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE. JURY CANNOT FIND A GUILTY VERDICT WHEN THE FACTUAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PRESENTED.

MARTINS FERRY RESIDENTS ARE STRONG AND WILL MAKE CHOICES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THEIR LIFE BY ELECTING BETTER VALUED OFFICIALS.

This just goes to show that sometimes the people that we are meant to trust can be snakes! I keep trying to figure out if he recieved stolen property then where did he get it from, i thought for sure he was the only one who ENTERED that girls house, maybe entering without breaking would have been a better charge. Too bad this is not over, this jerk is not stupid, his attorney will ask or an appeal and then it will go through the channels all over again, it figures that he would be charged with the lesser of the charges, He will prob, get a slap on the wrist while others who have committed a crime and been honest and not lied the whole time on trail, get a full sentence even when the crime was not any different then Mr Carpenter's. I pray for our valley to get some people to protect and serve us that are honest and not in it for the almighty POWER TRIP.

HE SHOULD BE HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD, SINCE HE IS SUPPOSE TO BE PROTECTING THE PEOPLE. IF HE IS LET OFF EASY WE SHOULD REMEMBER IT ON ELECTION DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! AND SEND A MESSAGE TO ELECTED OFFICALS WHO DOES NOT PERFORM THE BUSINESS OF THE PEOPLE!! NOW IS TIME FOR JUSTICE.

For all those who latched onto this case in the hopes of gaining your own justice through Michelle Ross, I say hold on. Michelle Ross isn't the only wronged person in Martins Ferry, but it appears as though she is the only one who actually got some help. I want to know why? Why is the MFPD permitted to do so much harm to people? Why does the mayor allow it to happen? Why does the law director not intercede? Why do some of the officers seem to enjoy bringing hardship upon innocent people?

Justice does not only come from a badge or a gavel and jury. There is another justice which has been in place since the beginning of mankind. Some call it karma. Others say "what goes around comes around." And still others recognize it as the power of God - "I will take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Verily I say unto thee, I shall repay." Therefore, let not your hopes be dashed. Keep the faith. While it isn't a good thing to go around hoping bad things to befall another, one must still recognize the necessity of moral debt being satisfied. I believe that at some point, everything will come full circle and we shall all be avenged.

community service picking up trash in bridgeport would be funny

i want to see him community service----picking up trash along the highway lol

I'm sorry that Michelle Ross had to be the one to go through the media storm but the women over the years who were forced to stay and "talk" to Barry Carpenter in exchange for him not issuing a bogus ticket, DUI, or arrest thank her very much. He finally 'messed' with the wrong people and they fought back. Thank God he's not going to be a cop anymore.

I expected this... really I did...... This just goes to show that sworn police officers are in fact above the law... It is so blatantly obvious that Mr. Carpenter is a burglar yet we get this? This is so unbelievably wrong! You guys think this is bad- wait 'til you see the results of his sentencing hearing when he gets 3 months of unsupervised probation and doesn't even have to pay any of the costs of his prosecution.......

Wtov 9 reported he could get up to 10 years

Just wandering how much time he will serve. He was found guilty of the lesser charges. Imagine that!!! The Attorney General needs to do alot more investigating in Belmont County. I feel so bad for what some of the people there have been through.

This amounts to a mere slap on the wrist. Guilty of receiving stolen property. So, who'd he "receive" it from? Who stole it? Not guilty of any burglary charges - lol. Mean while, in another story located on this website, Terry Lee Herring is sitting in jail without the bail because someone went to the police station and reported that he burgled their home. Shoulda been a police officer, Terry.

suprise! lol. found guility of the lessor accounts. go figure. does he still lose his job? i sure hope so.

It would have been nice if the reporter would have kept his trap shut at the end of these readings so we could have heard what the judge & attorney said. Ch 7 has covered this story very nicely but sometimes the stupidity amazes me. Thanks Dave Elias, Jim Forbes - learn when to talk & when not to, here's a clue, when your covering a story live be quiet.