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An inmate in the Greene County Jail is facing a battery charge after he allegedly admitted hitting another inmate many times in a dispute over what to watch on tv. According to a deputy, the inmate said it was “plain as day on video” that he was guilty of battery.
Read MoreLast week a story was posted about a Linton man accused of causing serious injury in a domestic. There’s more to the story and a new case has been filed against him.
Read MoreA Linton man is accused of causing serious injury during a domestic altercation. The victim was reported to have a broken nose and contusions to the face and eyes. He’s also accused of threatening to kill the officers who arrested him.
Read MoreJohn P. Chapman was murdered at an abandoned house in Linton on the night of Tuesday, March 17. Since his body was discovered the next day, on Wednesday, March 18, and officers from the Linton Police Department arrived at the scene, an investigation has been ongoing to bring the murderer to justice. This week, Greene County Prosecutor Jarrod Holtsclaw and Linton Police Chief Paul Clark agreed to share more information about the case after charges were dropped against two of three suspects connected to the murder.
Read MoreA Linton man is accused of attempting to pass counterfeit $20 bills to buy items in two stores. The bills were determined to be fake when cashiers tested them with counterfeit detection pens.
Read MoreThree suspects have been linked in one way or the other to the murder of John Chapman on March 17. Late this afternoon, murder charges were dismissed against two of those suspects.
Read MoreThe ongoing investigation into the murder of John P. Chapman on March 17 has led to the arrest of a third suspect connected to events that occurred on the night Chapman was killed.
Read MoreBrandon Criss, 34, and Devon Nichols, 17, both from Linton, appeared in Greene Superior Court this afternoon and have been charged with the March 17 murder of John P. Chapman. The case of Nichols, 16 at the time of the murder, has been automatically waived into adult court.
Read MoreA Lyons man claimed another man had knocked his hat off, pushed, punched and kicked him. Witnesses said otherwise.
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