Pictured is Amy E. Resch.
A Portage County woman has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after threatening to murder the local prosecutor.
In June, Amy E. Resch, 28, of the Dayton Correctional Institute, pleaded guilty to one count each of retaliation and intimidation of an attorney, victim or witness in a crime. Recently she was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
Resch was upset with Union County Prosecutor Dave Phillips because he had opposed her petition for judicial release in 2017. Shortly after her petition was denied by the judge, Resch wrote Phillips a letter, which started kindly, addressing the prosecutor as “sir.” She sarcastically thanked him for his time.
“Who cares that I am currently trying to better myself, not you right? Well… you! Your (sic) on my … list now,” she wrote.
She said Phillips, like the Mogadore Police Chief, is on her “seek and kill list.”
“You suck at your job and I hate you,” Resch wrote.
She said Phillips “better hope I don’t see you, I will destroy you and your whole life as you are destroying mine.”
“I’m either going to shoot you or stab you until your blood drains out of your lifeless body,” she wrote.
She concluded the letter with an admonishment against judging others, then “Rest in peace.”
Phillips said that he knew Resch was in prison and couldn’t carry out the threats, but added, “we take every threat very seriously.”
Phillips knew the woman had a violent history.
Resch was admitted to prison in August 2010 after being convicted of assault and felonious assault in Montgomery County.
While in prison, Resch threatened to kill the Mogadore Police Chief who had investigated crimes allegedly committed against her as a child. Court records indicate she blamed the chief for ruining her life. Resch actually made a series of phone calls and sent a variety of threats to the Mogadore Police Chief over the course of several years. She threatened to kill the police chief then herself.
In 2015, Resch pleaded guilty to one count of assault and one count of harassment with a bodily substance stemming from an incident with a nurse at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. At that time, Resch had inflicted injuries on herself and was being treated by the prison nurse. Resch attempted to choke the nurse then tried to use her handcuffed hands to hit the nurse, cutting her in the face.
In April 2017, Resch was eligible and applied for judicial release.
“I know that everything I’ve done was wrong and I take complete and full responsibility for all of my actions,” Resch wrote in a pro-se motion for release. “I have been through a lot but I know I have been channeling my anger towards the wrong people.”
She admitted that her behaviors in prison, “haven’t been the best due to having problems adjusting to the environment.”
Resch informed the judge that as of that day she was no longer in solitary confinement, would be taking classes and was going to better herself, even if judicial release was not granted.
“Now, instead of harming others or showing any type of criminal behaviors, I have learned to talk my problems out, write poetry, journal, or read to cope with my emotions,” Resch wrote. “I have learned and realized that assaulting others or threatening any type of bodily harm is never the answer.”
Phillips wrote a motion in response to Resch’s request to be released. He said Resch was “far from a model inmate.”
“It appears that she has failed to complete any programs while in prison,” Phillips wrote.
Judge Don Fraser rejected Resch’s request without a hearing.