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The FBI, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is issuing a national public safety alert regarding an explosion in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for additional explicit material or money—a crime known as sextortion.
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS – Chase Winkle, 35, a former officer with the Muncie Police Department, in Muncie, Indiana, pleaded guilty today to eleven civil rights and obstruction charges. Specifically, Winkle pleaded guilty to five federal civil rights offenses for assaulting arrestees, and to six obstruction offenses for writing false reports to cover up the results.
Read MoreTERRE HAUTE – A federal grand jury in Indianapolis returned an indictment today charging a Terre Haute man with the murder of a federal officer, attempted arson of federal property, and using a firearm during a crime of violence causing death. The charges against Shane Meehan, 45, stem from the July 7, 2021 killing of Terre Haute Police Detective and FBI Task Force Officer Gregory Ferency. Meehan was previously charged by a federal criminal complaint filed on July 8, 2021.
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS – A Greene County man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor and the distribution/receipt of child pornography. He will also serve a lifetime term of supervised release, must pay $10,000 in restitution to the minor victim, and was also ordered to have no contact with the minor victim or victim's family.
Read MoreThe Indianapolis Star is reporting a Bloomfield woman, Dona Sue Bissey, is planning to plead guilty to crimes committed during the Capitol Riot on January 6.
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS – Nineteen individuals have been indicted in relation to a federal methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking operation in Indianapolis. Seventeen of these individuals are charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl. One is a resident of rural Bloomfield and one is a resident of Spencer.
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS – A Bloomington man was sentenced to 8 years in prison for conspiracy to transport child pornography. He will also serve 10 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution to the minor victim.
Read MoreTERRE HAUTE – Criminal charges were filed today against a Terre Haute man who was taken into custody yesterday for killing Terre Haute Police Detective and FBI Task Force Officer, Gregory Ferency, outside the FBI Resident Agency office on July 7, 2021…..
Read MoreA Bloomfield woman has put Greene County in the national news today. She’s the first person to be sentenced in the Capitol riot cases. Watch for stories to be on national and local news programs this evening. And a number of stories have been posted in newspapers and online media sites across the nation, including the Indianapolis Star, Herald-Times, etc.
Read MoreIndianapolis – Acting U.S. Attorney John Childress announced Friday that Buster Hernandez was sentenced to 75 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt. Hernandez used sextortion and made death threats to at least 375 minor victims and he threatened to use explosive devices at Plainfield and Danville high schools. A list of usernames Hernandez used to communicate with victims is included in this story and anyone who believes they may have been a victim of sextortion by Hernandez is asked to contact the Indianapolis FBI Office.
Read MoreTwo area women were arrested Wednesday, February 24, on multiple charges in connection with the violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. According to FBI Indianapolis, both women are from Bloomfield.
Dona Sue Bissey, 52, and Anna Morgan-Lloyd, 49, Bloomfield, were taken into custody on charges that included knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Information about their actions on January 6 have not yet been released.
Both were reported to have been booked into the Vigo County Jail. They are expected to appear in a federal courtroom on Friday morning for initial hearings.
Read MoreKNOX COUNTY – On Thursday, April 12, at approximately 2:30 p.m., Indiana State Police and the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force arrested Bicknell Police Lieutenant Kevin Carroll, 47, for Official Misconduct and Criminal Recklessness.
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