Ex-Lake County deputy gets three months in jail after attack on immigrant
By Lucas Daprile
Published on April 3, 2026.
Former Lake County Sheriff's deputy, Daniel Lajack, has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and two years of probation. He admitted to targeting an immigrant during a drunken altercation at a Medina County bar. The incident occurred at Buzzards Roost, a bar in Hinckley Township and involved Lajak and Cleveland police officer Donald Kopchak, who were both off duty and drinking at the bar when they confronted another immigrant, Yonas Bokredingil, a legal Eritrean immigrant and truck driver from Texas. Witnesses testified that Lajacks accused Bokrededil of being in the country illegally and refused to believe the man's valid Texas driver's license. The case resulted in Lajacking's termination of his law enforcement career.
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