“You admitted, you did pick up the dog dish and throw it at the wall,” wrote Chief Mark Lightner in the record of disciplinary action. “However, you insisted, you did not throw it at the dogs or your wife.”
The file indicates Blair is receiving counseling.
ORIGINAL REPORT
The Tipp City woman charged with falsifying a report of her Huber Heights police officer husband throwing a dog bowl at her pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct today.
Tipp City authorities charged Kimberly Blair, 49, with falsification after she sought to "clarify" a report in August that her husband, Huber Heights Officer Matthew Blair, 43, "launched" a dog bowl at her in their Tipp City home. The police officer was originally charged with domestic violence, but the charge was dropped when his wife revised her story.
Kimberly Blair pleaded guilty today to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct and was fined $75, according to Miami County Municipal Court records.
In October, Tipp City Detective Sgt. Chris Graham said he originally believed the incident to be a “textbook domestic violence case.” But he said Blair “has made it clear the version that she gave that night was not accurate.” Blair said medication caused her “significant memory issues” and the cuts she said came from the bowl “were just accidental.”
Blair’s revised statement said her husband’s stress came from her “compulsive spending,” killings of police officers nationally, “working a department where the officers don’t get much support from their leadership, our marriage falling apart, my medical issues (4 major surgeries in 2 years) and no counseling for any of it.”
Officer Blair was arrested on a domestic violence charge in 1995 with a different woman while employed as a Madison Twp. officer, according to written statements he made in a 2001 pre-employment background check for Huber Heights.
He accepted a deal and pleaded no contest to the charge of attempted domestic violence in Kettering Municipal Court, according to his statement, which said the case was expunged by a judge in 1997.
The Dayton Daily News reviewed body camera footage from Kimberly Blair’s August interview with Tipp City police after she reported her husband “launched” dog food bowls at her and the family’s dogs. The footage shows Blair crying and bleeding when the Tipp City officer entered the family’s kitchen.
“He (expletive) lost his damn mind,” she said. “He’s, literally, he’s got a temper that’s crazy.”
In October, Huber Heights police administration said Blair was back on active duty. The newspaper today asked the police department to provide an update on the internal investigation involving Blair.
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