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A random vehicle registration status check in eastern Greene County showed one of the vehicle’s owners had a suspended driver’s license but after a traffic stop, the driver and passenger are behind bars on drug-related charges.
Read MoreA male shopper who paid for $20 worth of items allegedly said he forgot to scan the other items worth over $240. An LPD officer took him to jail.
Read MoreA Jasonville woman arrested by GCSD over the weekend is facing a mixture of charges ranging from theft to criminal trespassing, and possession of a controlled substance plus driving while suspended.
Read MoreTwo passengers in a car traveling on I-69 got into a physical altercation when one man threw a burrito in the other man's face. When they stopped at a gas station in Greene County, he hit him over the head with a vodka bottle. GCSD arrested them both.
Read MorePolice arrested a man last weekend for trespassing. The man said he'd never been served any paperwork, but police had a recording of him verbally acknowledging he was not to be on the property.
Read MoreWhen a Linton man was pulled over Tuesday night for disregarding a stop sign, he allegedly admitted he “glided” through it, but the results of a breath test showed he had a BAC of .168 and he wound up in jail.
Read MoreA complaint of an odor of marijuana coming from a residence resulted in the arrest of a 43-year-old Linton man on charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, and possession of paraphernalia.
Read MoreA 45-year-old Gosport man was arrested June 3 after reportedly striking his girlfriend with a rock, attempting to run someone off the road with his semi, and driving while suspended with a prior conviction of driving while suspended within 10 years. Deputy James Carpenter of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department responded to a report made regarding Rex Nichols at the Worthington Police Department. Carpenter went to Nichols’s place of employment to speak to him about the incident.
Read MoreA 21-year-old Linton man appeared in Greene Superior Court for an initial hearing Tuesday on felony charges of theft of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance with an enhancing substance.
Read MoreWhen an officer checked on a man who had stopped to work on his car in the parking area of a gas station in Worthington last week, the man ended up in the county jail because he didn't have a valid driver’s license plus he allegedly had a dope pipe in one pocket, marijuana in another pocket and methamphetamine in another pocket.
Read MoreA 31-year-old Linton man was arrested May 23 on charges of theft and resisting law enforcement after taking a spiral staircase without permission from a residence.
Read MoreA motorcycle rider suffered multiple broken bones and a severed artery in a head-on collision with an SUV in February on SR 59. The driver of the SUV was suspected of driving in an impaired state and a blood draw was taken. This month the results came back from the Department of Toxicology showing the driver of the SUV had a BAC of .234. He’s been arrested and is facing two Level 5 felonies and three misdemeanors.
Read MoreA Switz City man was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident after he allegedly backed his vehicle over a stop sign and a street sign and crashed his car into a ditch in the Linton area late Wednesday night.
Read MoreA Linton man is facing felony charges of strangulation and confinement that occurred during a domestic altercation on Sunday night.
Read MoreA Linton woman arrested last Thursday night is accused of stabbing her nephew in the arm with a sharp filet knife while trying to take away his phone because he was recording an altercation between the two of them.
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