An Indianapolis woman, who did not seem to know where she was, was arrested last Tuesday after she scared a Greene County resident. The woman was accused of rattling the doorknobs and banging on the windows of a home on a night of 12-degree temperatures with 10-inches of snow on the ground.

Lori Jo Cook, 47, Indianapolis, was arrested by Deputy Jordan Allor of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department last Tuesday, February 16.

At 12:46 p.m. that Tuesday, Deputy Allor responded, along with GCSD Deputy Davis Aerne, to the White River Co-Op Gas Station on East State Road 58, Bloomfield, after an employee reported two women who appeared to be intoxicated were there looking in vehicles.

When Deputy Aerne arrived, he found one of the women asleep in a booth while the other woman, later identified as Lori Jo Cook, was walking around the store. Deputy Aerne also retrieved a package on the ground that was later found to contain Buprenorphine/Naloxone, a Schedule III controlled substance.

When Deputy Allor arrived, he located Cook and reported she had slurred speech, unsteady balance and a lack of attention span. Cook allegedly said her husband had dropped her off and when asked about the other woman, Cook said that woman was at home in Carmel. When asked if she knew where she (Cook) was, Cook allegedly said she was on 86th Street in the Allisonville area.

When asked if she had anything illegal in her purse, she said she had a legal prescription for Suboxone. After she agreed to a search, the deputy found several prescriptions for buprenorphine/naloxone with her name.

Deputies were unable to locate a vehicle for the two and security cameras showed they were dropped off by Owensburg Auto. The tow truck had Cook’s vehicle on the back and had towed it away.

Due to extremely cold weather, the manager of the gas station said the two could stay in the store while they waited for a ride to pick them up and the two deputies left.

But later in the day, Deputy Allor was dispatched again to an incident involving Cook.

At 6:32 p.m., a resident called the sheriff’s department and said a woman was knocking on her door and trying to get in her house, located in the same area of the county. When Deputy Allor got there, he found Cook walking toward him with unsteady balance.

When Deputy Allor asked Cook what was going on, she allegedly said she was letting people know that she won’t be coming back out here every week just to fill out a form for them if they are not going to pick up the phone or answer the door. When Deputy Allor asked if people at the house were supposed to be filling out a form, Cook said yes and that they were supposed to be doing a podcast.

Deputy Allor reported it was 12 degrees out with approximately 10 inches of snow on the ground and Cook said she’d just driven her car there and parked it in the yard. Deputy Allor knew her car was towed earlier in the day. Cook had not driven a car there. Cook did not think she was in Greene County and said she didn’t know where Bloomfield was.

And that’s the way it went during further questioning of Cook as described by Deputy Allor in a probable cause affidavit.

When Deputy Allor talked to the resident who had called in, she said Cook was pulling on the doorknobs and banging on windows before the deputy arrived. The resident said she was afraid the windows would break. She was home with a child and was scared when Cook was trying to get in.

When Cook was taken into custody, she didn’t know where her purse was, so Deputy Allor stopped at the gas station to see if she had left it there. She didn’t leave her purse, but she did leave her wallet there.

Later, the resident who called in told him Cook’s purse was found inside a vehicle that was parked at the residence. The resident said cigarettes were found on the floorboard and she thought maybe Cook had been sitting inside the vehicle at some point.

Cook was booked into jail at 9:06 p.m. Her bond was set at $1,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. She has since posted bond and been released.

Cook is scheduled to appear in Greene Superior Court for an initial hearing on March 1 when she will be formally charged with: