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A warrant for the arrest of an adult woman with a concealed carry permit was ordered today. She is accused of wearing a holstered 9mm handgun into a high school.
Read MoreWhen three Greene County Sheriff’s Deputies attempted to arrest a suspect in Marco Wednesday night, he barricaded a room, hid in a crawl space and they called the Indiana State Police. ISP sent numerous troopers and an ERT team that apprehended the suspect after they deployed tear gas and drove an armored vehicle into the barricaded room.
Read MoreA woman who said she wanted to go to jail got a ride from a patrolman. She then spent her Christmas and New Years holidays in jail, and she’s still there.
Read MoreA Linton man was in court Wednesday afternoon on charges that came about as a result of an alleged trespassing and attempted shoplifting incident at a local store a couple of days before Christmas.
Read MoreA 19-year-old man was taken into custody on Christmas night after he allegedly threatened to kill everyone in his family. As of this evening, he’s not posted bond and remains in jail.
Read MoreA complaint about a neighbor parking vehicles in his yard and rutting it up sent a couple of deputies to the home of a Linton woman who’s now facing felony drug charges after the officers seized numerous firearms, drugs and drug-related items.
Read MoreA stand-off situation in Marco ended very early this morning with the arrest of convicted murderer Jesse Wayne Stephens.
Read MoreAfter Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy James Carpenter was notified of a match between the DNA of a convicted auto thief from Indianapolis and DNA found where a truck had been stolen in Greene County, a warrant was issued for the suspect’s arrest. Arrested, the suspect was transferred to Greene County and appeared in court this week.
Read MoreIt’s been quite a while since a bulldozer was found submerged in the Thousand Islands Lake at Goose Pond at the end of April, 2017. The case went unsolved, but Indiana Conservation Officers persisted, and charges were filed against two suspects to end 2018. Warrants for their arrest were issued today.
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS – Greene County Prosecutor Jarrod D. Holtsclaw will serve as president of the Association of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys, Inc. during 2019 after recently being nominated by the Association’s Board of Directors and elected by Association members during a recent meeting in December.
Read MoreA Solsberry man facing drug charges connected with a Thanksgiving crash, who was arrested then bonded out of jail, is back in the Greene County Jail. His bond was revoked after he was arrested on a drug charge in Monroe County.
Read MoreA Linton man accused of failure to register as a sex offender was booked in to the Greene County Jail yesterday, Thursday, December 27, on a warrant issued for failure to appear at his initial hearing.
Read MoreA hunter who wounded two deer on private property then tracked them into the Goosepond area where he shot and killed them, then field dressed them without having the required tags, is being charged with two misdemeanor counts of failure to properly tag a whitetail deer.
Read MoreA Lyons man, who racked up three serious felony cases as a result of a series of incidents in Lyons last summer, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with two suspended, when he appeared before Judge Dena Martin in Greene Superior Court a few days before Christmas.
Read MoreEarly Christmas morning, at 6:19 a.m., a Jasonville man was booked in to the Greene County Jail, accused of trying to strangle his wife with a broom handle and stabbing her in the hand with a wedding cake cutter.
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