The first time Vanessa Stout met her future boss, Anthony Gutierrez, was an August morning last year when she crossed the street to talk to the new neighbor who had backed his black Chevy Suburban into her father's truck.

   Little did Stout know that that chance encounter would lead to a job at Attorney General Marc Dann's office and, just four months later, to a sexual-harassment accusation against Gutierrez.
   Yesterday, Dann's office released an incomplete accident report from the incident in which Gutierrez backed into a truck owned by Chris Stout.

   At the time, Gutierrez, Dann and Leo Jennings III, the attorney general's communications director, shared a Dublin-area condo across the street from one occupied by Stout and his daughter.
   Dann spokesman Ted Hart said the report that was supposed to be filed with the Ohio Department of Administrative Services in case of any accident was instead stuck in a file and never submitted.
   Neither vehicle suffered much damage. No charges were filed, and a police report was not written. Stout declined to press charges or seek reimbursement.

   “I approached him and advised him that my neighbors and my boyfriend saw him hit my father's truck,” Vanessa Stout wrote in a journal obtained by The Dispatch of meeting Gutierrez for the first time. “He seemed confused, but then told me that he will take care of the cost no matter what.”
   A few weeks later, Gutierrez called Stout and invited her to visit the condo to meet the attorney general. She was watching Cops on television, she told him.
 
   “Stop wasting time watching cops on TV and come hang out with the real cops and have some cocktails,” Gutierrez replied. Shortly after she arrived at the condo, Dann found out she was unemployed and instructed Gutierrez to find her a job in his office “anywhere she fits.”

   On March 31, Stout and Cindy Stankoski, another of Gutierrez's employees, filed sexual-harassment complaints against him. An internal probe of the accusations is to be completed this week.