No, you've COMPLETELY misread it. It's FAR worse than you think.
Ohio REQUIRES you to "promptly notify" a cop that you have a CHL AND are carrying, IF AND ONLY IF you are CARRYING, and you are "stopped for a law enforcement purpose". The victim TWICE attempted to notify and was TWICE prevented from doing so by the cops. The prosecutor didn't offer to drop the parking/standing charges. He offered to drop the "FAILURE TO PROMPTLY NOTIFY" charges. What the cops did was the equivalent of a cop getting in front of you in a no passing zone, slowing down to 10mph and then citing you for "failure to maintain the posted speed" and "impeding the flow of traffic". The victim was arrested because he failed to do something which the cops FORCIBLY PREVENTED him from doing. What the prosecutor is doing is EXTORTION. It's no better than the friend or relative of a rapist "offering" to not murder the rape victim if she agrees not to go to the police.
And this is NOT the first time this has happened. A virtually identical incident happened in Beachwood, Ohio and actually went to trial. The victim in that case, was of course acquitted.
And people wonder why I have ZERO trust for the police...