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Ohio state alcohol and drug undercover agent Timothy Gales was accused, after an internal investigation, of having undermined his own teenage confidential informant in a Columbus store that the pair were probing for selling cigarettes to minors. According to the official report (described in the Columbus Dispatch in July), Gales stood alongside the teenager, and when the clerk proceeded with the sale, Gale asked, “Hey, aren't you supposed to ask for ID?” It was allegedly Gales' second blown-sting incident this year.

Fuad A. Mahamud was abducted by two Ohio Liquor Control agents while he was working as a parking lot attendant at a downtown parking lot. Published reports state that the two agents in plain clothes and in a unmarked vehicle drove onto the private parking lot and refused to pay for being there when legally requested to do so by Mahamud. Further, according to the reports, Mahamud was handcuffed by the State agents and pushed into the back seat their car, drove off the lot, kept Mahamud for about a half-hour before releasing him behind a gas station a few blocks from the parking lot. The two agents, David Pollock and Timothy Gales have personally caught hell over the incident but they have not been criminally charged.