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Melissa Jo Boram is accused of giving false information that caused a substantial hindrance to the officers responding to a scene where shots had been fired. Boram is the mother of Bradon M. Graham, one of two men arrested after the incident in Linton on May 24 that involved gunfire.
Read MoreTwo men were arrested after police responded to a fight inside the High Rise last Thursday.
Read MoreA Linton man was sentenced to 180 days in the county jail on Wednesday.
Read MoreWhen 42-year-old Edward Dean Long of Jasonville got pulled over last summer in eastern Greene County, he got a written warning for failure to use a turn signal. He didn’t have a driver’s license, so the vehicle had to be towed, and inventoried. They found drugs, and a gun. On Wednesday, a jury found him guilty of dealing in methamphetamine and, due to a past conviction, unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.
Read MoreThe man who yelled “Cops!” as he took off running through the woods near Calvertville when officers showed up to arrest him, is going to change his plea.
Read MoreJustus Kirk Wright, 40, is wanted in Sullivan County. He was arrested in May on a preliminary charge of dealing methamphetamine as a Level 2 felony. The jail log listed him with a home address in Linton. He paid $7,400 cash to bond out, then didn’t show up in court for his initial hearing.
Read MoreToday, the Department announced its allocation of three new AUSAs to focus on violent crime and one AUSA to tackle civil opioid enforcement needs in SDIN.
Read MoreA 29-year-old Bloomfield woman is facing a criminal charge of theft for allegedly stealing a camera from a store counter.
Read MoreA warrant was out for the arrest of a 41-year-old Bedford man, formerly from Greene County, who turned himself in at the Greene County Sheriff’s Department on Monday.
Read MoreA Lyons man who went to a neighbor’s home with a gun, looking for another man, allegedly saying he was going to kill him, is accused of also threatening to kill everyone in the house.
Read MoreA woman, accused of trying to pull another woman out of her vehicle and of trying to get into other vehicles while behaving erratically in an impaired condition in February on school property, has agreed to plead guilty to attempted robbery, a Level 5 felony.
Read MoreOn Monday, May 14, a man called in to Greene County Dispatch to report his motorcycle had been stolen. He said he’d been away from home all weekend and when he returned, his blue Yamaha motorcycle was missing from his shed.
Read MoreCory A. Terrell, 44, Jasonville, is wanted on two warrants for his arrest, one ordered in Greene Superior Court by Judge Dena Martin and another one in Greene Circuit Court by Judge Erik Allen. Following Terrell’s conviction and sentencing in Circuit Court on Wednesday, May 23, Judge Allen allowed Terrell to turn himself in to the Greene County Jail no later than the morning of Tuesday, May 29, to begin serving his sentence. He’s overdue – a no show. (Free - Entire story posted on Facebook @GreeneStreets)
Read MoreWhen Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy Heather Wood and GCSD Sgt. Bobby Pierce stopped a car without a working license plate light, the driver drove away with a ticket, but a passenger got a ride to jail.
Read MoreA driver, whose license was suspended, used the name of his brother, whose license was valid, to identify himself to a state trooper during a traffic stop in Lyons.
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