By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Ohio Homeland Security lost its leader.
Richard Baron, executive director of the agency, died Tuesday following an illness, the Columbus Dispatch.
Baron, 54, of Westerville, headed up security issues since September 2011.
Before taking the top Homeland Security job, Baron served 25 years with the State Highway Patrol and retired as captain in 2012. Prior to his State Highway Patrol job, Baron was a police officer and firefighter.
“He was an inspirational leader … a good man in every sense,” Department of Public Safety Director John Born said of his patrol academy classmate from 1987.
