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An eastern Greene County man is in the Greene County Jail facing seven criminal counts related to a crash in Bloomfield in late April. An officer said he was going 90 before crashing his car into a utility pole in the middle of the night.
Read MoreAn expired plate on an SUV led to a Saturday night traffic stop in Bloomfield. That led to the arrest of the driver and a passenger, both booked into jail on drug charges.
Read MoreA Linton man accused of failure to register as a sex offender has been arrested. When an officer talked to him on the phone earlier this month, he said he was “way out of town.” This morning, he’s in jail with bond set at $10,000 cash only.
Read MoreA Jasonville man is accused of intimidating a police officer in Greene County. He was supposed to be in court today but he failed to appear because he’s in jail in Monroe County where he’s accused of battery on two officers.
Read MoreA Linton woman pulled over for crossing a center line was arrested and is now facing charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Read MoreWhen officers served an arrest warrant on a Bloomfield man on Tuesday, he got a pat-down for weapons before he headed to jail. He didn’t have any weapons, but officers say he had meth in his pocket.
Read MoreA Linton man wanted in Greene County on two warrants was arrested in Monroe County on Monday and charged with felonies involving meth and theft. By early Thursday, he was in the Greene County Jail awaiting his initial hearing on felony charges of burglary and theft.
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS – Governor Eric J. Holcomb is directing flags across the state to be flown at half-staff Tuesday to honor John Paul Stevens, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Read MoreAn inmate in the Greene County Jail awaiting trial in a case involving a hit and run fatality is now facing additional charges following an incident that occurred between him and another inmate.
Read MoreA Bloomfield man engaged in an argument with a girlfriend allegedly told her he was going to kill her and that he’d dug a hole for her body as he drove her vehicle out of town toward the covered bridge.
Read MoreA Linton man, who was kicked off private property where he was staying in a tent, has been accused of stealing an electric cart from a Linton store.
Read MoreA Newberry man wound up in jail late Sunday, accused of smashing a 2x4 to pieces on a street in Newberry. He was reported to have been upset about the noise of another Newberry resident doing “burnouts” in a vehicle.
Read MoreA traffic stop last night in Bloomfield resulted in the arrest of a Bloomfield woman who allegedly said she had never gotten a driver’s license. An officer reported finding drugs in her car.
Read MoreA sexual offender who was convicted of sexual battery in 1996 is back in jail. He was wanted for allegedly failing to update his information on the sexual offender registry, and for failure to show up in court in another case involving domestic battery.
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