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Indiana may soon join the ranks of nanny states that prohibit texting. I personally do not text while driving, it can wait until I’m stopped but more often that not, I just call them back if it’s important.

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From WLKI.com

NIPSCO is advising people in the Lake James area that a person in a white truck is misrepresenting himself as a utility company employee and demanding payment from local residents for the trimming of tree branches. NIPSCO spokesman Larry Graham says while the company has contractors that perform tree trimming work along their power lines, neither NIPSCO nor their contractors ever request payment from residents for performing such work. Graham says anyone being approached by someone requesting payment for unauthorized tree trimming work should contact local police to report the incident.

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s department today released a sketch of a man wanted for sexually assaulting a women in her home, near Hamilton, Indiana earlier this week.

In searching the DeKalb outstanding warrants, I found this guy.

Not saying it’s him, but the resemblance is there a bit.

Matthew R Pratt

DOB: 05/16/1970
Gender: Male
Race: White/Non Hispanic
Height: 5′ 08″
Weight: 250 lbs
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue

Wanted For:
DeKalb County Warrant # 08-0179
Failure To Appear Criminal Deception

And this guy.

Bryan Andrew Cook

DOB: 11/20/1984
Gender: Male
Race: White/Non Hispanic
Height: 5′ 08″
Weight: 190 lbs
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel

Wanted For:
DeKalb County Warrant # 07-0301
Failure To Appear Battery
DeKalb County Warrant # 07-0300
Failure To Appear Possession . Less Than 30 Grams
DeKalb County Warrant # 07-0256
Failure To Appear Extradition Hearing

You never know.

The perp pulled up to her house at 12:30 p.m. about 2 1/2 miles from Hamilton in what is described as a “box-style maroon sedan,” and inquired about two cars that were for sale.

The victim went inside to write down her phone number and he came at her with a knife, forcing his way into the house, where he tied her and her 2 1/2 year-old up and sexually assaulted the woman.

The attacker, by appearance in the sketch and description is apparently one major loser, with yellow teeth. He’s estimated to be 5-foot-5, white, and weighing 225 pounds, although in this sketch he looks a lot fatter. He’s said to be in his 20th or perhaps early 50s with brown hair, a beard and mustache, and a very large stomach.

If you think you may know who this person is, contact the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department at 260-925-3365.

From WANE.com

AUBURN, Ind. (WANE) – Police in DeKalb County are looking for an inmate who escaped Thursday evening from the DeKalb County Jail.

Shannon Michael Pelmear, 24, escaped from the jail around 10 p.m. Thursday. Police describe him as a white male, 5′ 10″, and about 150 lbs. Pelmear has black hair, hazel eyes, and a tribal tattoo on his left arm. He was last seen wearing black and white horizontal striped pants, no shirt, no shoes, but he does have on white socks.

Police say he escaped by breaking out a small window on the second floor of the jail and dropping down to the sidewalk. He fled East from the jail on 9th street. The jail is located on 215 E. 8th Street in Auburn.

Pelmear was in jail for dealing Methamphetamine and cocaine. He’s been there since May 14th, 2009.

Anyone with information about Pelmear’s whereabouts is asked to call the DeKalb County Police at 260-925-3365.

FBI-led probe yields drug-network arrests

After more than eight months of investigation, a federal task force announced charges against more than a dozen people believed to be part of a citywide drug-trafficking network.

Interim U.S. Attorney David Capp, flanked by local, state and federal law enforcement officers, announced Thursday that 16 people had been charged in the conspiracy, with 15 arrested so far and more than $200,000 seized.

This is an interesting visual in how they spread their operations all over the city. You may have to zoom out to see all of the locations involved in the bust.

View Cocaine Bust in a larger map

From a local newspaper

Teen homicide victim eulogized

The contrasts between the way those who loved homicide victim Jaquan D. Allen wanted his life to be and the way it was were on display at his funeral Monday.

There was the 17-year-old Allen – gunned down Dec. 27 around 4 a.m. in a car on State Street – lying in a coffin. When they closed it, some of the approximately 200 mourners at Kingdom Door Christian Worship Center became hysterical and had to be restrained. “I just want to see him one more time!” screamed one young man, who had to be wrapped in a bear hug by a family member.

There was Taron Causey soulfully singing, “No weapon formed against me shall prosper, it won’t work,” causing women in the crowd to sob.

And there was the image of Jaquan Allen on the T-shirts of several audience members, including one worn by his father, Jesse Allen. On the front of the shirt Jaquan Allen flashes a gang sign. On the back, with a cigarette between his lips, he points a pistol.

What the hell is wrong with this guy? How can the father of this dead kid glorify gang banging, and at his kid’s funeral?

AWB

From a local Newspaper:

Nathaniel Wilkerson said members of the Renegade Vice Lords are out to get him for trying to leave the gang.

Wilkerson made the statement after his father, Brian Wilkerson, had his mobile home at Country Forest Drive shot into around 10:20 p.m. Monday, according to Fort Wayne Police Officer David Bush’s incident report. Bush wrote that Brian Wilkerson, whom Bush arrested on an outstanding warrant, said the bullet went through a wall and into the bathroom. The Wilkersons said their home had been shot at twice before.

Country Forest Drive is off Washington Center Road, about 1 mile west of Lima Road. It’s home to one of the most rundown trailer parks in the city.

The Renegade Vice Lords hail from Chicago. Click here for some pictures.

I prefer to call them human debris.

AWB

This morning’s Journal Gazette has an article about the sex offender registry in Indiana and how residents can keep informed when an offender moves into their neighborhood.

Allen County Sheriff’s Department Cpl. Jeff Shimkus said the addresses for offenders can change daily and unless residents were checking every day, they may not know that a sex offender has moved into their neighborhood.

One of the reasons it’s important for Hoosiers, and in particular parents, to keep informed about sex offenders in their neighborhoods is that sex offenders will likely commit another offense, Carter said.

Many of the offenders found in Allen County have two or more offenses on their record, according to the county’s sex offender Web site.

 

An offender has lived near my home for the past several years.  We have been very fortunate by having a county deputy that lives about four doors down from the offender who has kept a close watch on him.  Not close enough though. 

The offender approached my son and his best friend on the beach at the park across the street from the offender’s home two summers ago.  My son’s best friend is the deputy’s son.  The offender knew who both boys were.  Pretty brazen wouldn’t you say? My daughter was babysitting and was very upset by his approach.  She gathered the kids up, took them home and called the deputy.  The situation was handled immediately.  We were lucky because our kids had been made aware of who this gentleman was due to the registry. I strongly believe the registry did indeed keep our boys from becoming another statistic.

This particular offender moved about three weeks ago.  I have kept an eye out to see where he moved to. He has 30 days to register his new address.  He registered yesterday.  I recognized the address as the home of one of my daughter’s friends who had just moved.  I know several of his new neighbors.  Two of them are school teachers.  I am printing off his information and mailing it to them. 

 

At a cost of $12,000 a year paid by the state, if the Web site prevents “even one heartache,” it’s worth the cost, Carter said.

Along with giving addresses for convicted sex offenders, the state’s Web site can tell Hoosiers whether a sex offender works nearby, Carter said.

I as a parent fully appreciate the website and also feel as if it has saved my child personally.

Read the full article here.

Posted by Lucy.

Following the raid on Monday, the last massage parlor in Warsaw was closed down.  Arrests for prostitution had occurred in each of four establishments in the small community. Word on the street in Warsaw has it that Monday’s raid was by far the biggest bust and included an establishment in Fort Wayne and Georgia.  I always found it curious that the VIP Office Spa had a billboard up on US 30 coming out of Fort Wayne.  That just kind of raised my eyebrow that something might be askew.

Well anyhow, they now have that problem under control in Warsaw, what will they focus on next?  Hope they don’t start looking for something to do, like banning smoking…

Full Story here

Posted By Lucy

Apparently a satellite dish installer is just a prime example of the fact we really do not know what may happen in our home when we are getting something installed or repaired in our own home.  We open our door to a complete stranger and give them free reign of our home and we are even fairly naive to the fact that anything can happen.

In today’s society we tend to trust no one, except these service/installation people.  Why is that?  I remember when we rented our water softener from Culligan, our salt delivery man had a key to our home and complete access anytime during the day when we were not home. Let’s not even think of how often our route drivers changed…

Link to Journal Gazette | 02/28/2007 | Alleged video voyeur nabbed in Kosciusko

Now this is where this article gets a little more interesting to me.  The article indicates adamantly that this is a one time incident with the installer… I have some rather strong doubts.  The same installer did an installation directly across the street from my house just a few weeks ago.  I remember clearly because it seemed very odd to me that he was out here for a very long time on a Friday afternoon, again on a Sunday afternoon and yet again the following week.  You can bet your cookies I will be across the street knocking on the neighbor’s door tonight when they get home from work, just to make sure they are aware of the situation and that they get things checked out.

Eww….it just gives me the heebie jeebies…

Posted By Lucy.

This from today’s Journal Gazette:

WARSAW – A Kosciusko County judge ordered a Warsaw massage business to close, agreeing with city officials that the business violates city rules. Judge Rex L. Reed granted the permanent injunction against Dating Dynamics & Massage Inc. and its owner, Jenette Fairchild, in a court document dated Tuesday. The city filed an injunction against the business in August, saying the business had violated the ordinance that regulates massage businesses, court documents said. The injunction asked the court to order the business and Fairchild to stop operating without a permit. Warsaw passed an ordinance in July 2005 that regulates massage businesses, and since then, periodic inspections have been conducted. Ordinance violations led the city to revoke the permit for Dating Dynamics in June. Police said the business remained open despite being subject to fines ranging from $200 to $2,500 per violation per day.

This has been an ongoing story since their first day of business. There are a couple of other similar businesses within the community that have also been under much scrutiny and are frequently shut down… But this battle has raged on the longest and here are a few clips from another article in the Warsaw Times Union:

Fairchild, who went before the council Monday, spoke out against the recent ordinance involving massage establishment regulations and said that she felt targeted and harassed by community leaders. In an emotional address that brought about the eventual rap of the mayor’s gavel to rule her out of order, Fairchild questioned areas in the ordinance that she believed were unjust and wondered how her business would be regulated under the new laws.

and from the same article:

“I am being targeted by a bunch of hypocrites,” Fairchild said. Mayor Ernie Wiggins ruled Fairchild out of order after she accused members of the Winona Lake town council and Warsaw Police Department as being frequent patrons of her establishment. “This is going too far,” Wiggins said. “From my understanding, you feel like you are being targeted. Your business was not targeted in this ordinance, and if you’re not doing anything illegal, then you have nothing to worry about.”

This has been ongoing for several years in Warsaw, usually where there is smoke there is fire and too many times employees from her business have been arrested for prostitution. For example and here. Posted by Lucy.