Town of Lockport businessman David Mongielo was found not guilty on four of five charges in Lockport City Court today.

The six-person jury acquitted him of the charges of  resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, harassment and one cellphone violation.

Mongielo's city court case began last June when he went through a traffic checkpoint on Lincoln Avenue. He contends the police were harassing him. The police version is that it was the other way around.

Mongielo had turned down a plea deal in January that would have had him plead guilty to obstruction of governmental administration, a class B misdemeanor. In the end, a single charge of using a cell phone in a moving vehicle was upheld. He was fined $150 and ordered to pay $88 in court costs.

Mongielo says he was using his cellphone to record the officer's interview with him. He contends that he was roughed up in that traffic stop and had attempted to file a police brutality suit, but it was dismissed by State Supreme Court Justice Catherine Nugent Panepinto on Nov. 14 because the officers weren’t properly served with the papers.

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