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A warrant was issued yesterday (Thursday) for the arrest of a Jasonville man accused of child molesting, a Level 3 felony. A second warrant for his arrest was issued earlier today (Friday) on a charge of disseminating matter harmful to minors, a Level 6 felony.
Read MoreCharles Elsworth Criss, Jr., 58, Lyons, also known as Chuck or Chucky, has been in prison. He was arrested for child molesting in 2014. In 2015, he was sentenced to eight years and won’t be released from DOC authority until next February, but he was out on parole when he was arrested last week for a parole violation. As of today, he’s in trouble for the violation but he is not facing any new criminal charges.
Read MoreYesterday in Greene Superior Court, on his 58th birthday, a Bloomfield man was remanded to the custody of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department after a jury found him guilty of three counts of public nudity and two counts of public indecency. Terry J. Gilmore, a coach and businessman at the time of the incidents, was booked into the Greene County Jail at 2:05 p.m. He will be sentenced later this month.
Read MoreThe Jasonville Police Department has confirmed they are investigating a death in Jasonville but few details are being released at this time.
Read MoreA former police officer is facing a criminal charge of false informing as a result of an investigation by the Indiana State Police into allegations that he didn’t tell the truth about the events that led to the arrest of a Linton man in May. Following the incident, the officer was taken off the street and placed on administrative leave by LPD Chief Paul Clark. In addition to the ISP investigation, a special prosecutor was appointed and this week, he filed a criminal case against the officer, and the LPD Chief confirmed the officer is no longer employed by the Linton Police Department.
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 guardian of two students in eastern Greene County is facing a charge of felony neglect and misdemeanor violations of the compulsory school attendance law for allegedly failing to make sure the students were in school and getting their work done. One student has missed over 51 days this school year, the other has missed over 61.
Read MoreGreene County - On Monday, April 26, Greene County Prosecutor Jarrod Holtsclaw released additional details and information from the investigation into three deaths in Owensburg.
Read MoreBloomfield, Indiana (March 30, 2021) – Recently, Indiana has seen an increase in the number of social media ‘vigilante’ groups attempting to go after suspected online predators without the support of law enforcement. While these groups may have the best intentions in mind, operating outside the scope of law enforcement can be extremely dangerous for both themselves and others.
Read MoreINDIANAPOLIS – Huntington County Prosecutor Amy Richison has been elected president of the Association of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys, Inc. for 2021, and Greene County Prosecutor Jarrod Holtsclaw has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors.
Read MoreBack in May, a Worthington man was charged with a serious crime, child molesting, a Level 1 felony. As the case made its way toward a trial, it came to light that another Worthington man, who was a witness to the alleged crime, had lied. The felony case has since been dismissed. Yesterday a warrant for the arrest of the witness was issued.
Read MoreA mother has been charged with felony neglect of a child diagnosed with “failure to thrive.” An investigator from the prosecutor’s office alleges the seriously underweight child would lose weight when in the mother’s care but gain in the care of a hospital or the father. A physician suggested “failure to thrive” could be “failure to feed.”
Read MoreBeginning Tuesday, December 8, 2020, the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office will close to the public, except by appointment scheduled in advance. The public may still call or email the office and should endeavor to conduct business with the office by email or by telephone if possible.
Office staff will be reduced and rotated, and work from home will be implemented, in order to reduce health risk to individual staff members and to the office as a whole.
Closure and operating on reduced in-office staff is the result of careful review and consideration of staff safety, in light of the dramatic increase in Greene County COVID-19 cases during the past several weeks.
The described operating schedule will remain in effect throughout the month of December and the early 2021 office schedule will be evaluated at the end of the year.
Read MoreA rural Bloomfield man whose license was suspended got into his truck and followed an investigator from the prosecutor’s office out his driveway and onto the highway. The investigator noticed and now he’s facing a misdemeanor.
Read MoreOctober is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Domestic violence is a subject that is tough to deal with and combat even under normal circumstances. Unfortunately, in the challenging environment of 2020 and the COVID pandemic, domestic violence incidents have skyrocketed. With fewer opportunities to get out of the house, economic uncertainty and less ability for friends and family members to check in on loved ones, it is no surprise that we are seeing spikes in domestic violence incidents. According to the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, DV related fatalities have increased 86 percent compared to the same time period last year. Given everything else that Hoosiers have had to deal with in 2020, that is simply a devastating statistic.
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