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By Micah Clark

Breaking News: Democrat House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer is back in the State Capitol meeting with Speaker Brian Bosma at this moment.

Be Cautious – State House Shutdown Doesn’t Make Citizens Safer

Occasionally, in articles and talks I have invoked the famous adage of New York Judge Gideon J. Tucker, who in 1866 observed, “No man’s life, liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session.” The judge’s quip is generally true, but when it comes to this current shutdown of the Indiana State House, do not be deceived. We are not safer with thirty-seven AWOL Democrat legislators hiding out at a Comfort Inn in Illinois. Read the rest of this entry »

The Capital & Washington blog has an interesting post on who’s subsidizing the Indiana house legislator’s stay at the Comfort Suites in Urbana, IL. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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