Cassius Aaron Rovenstine

WARSAW — Indiana State Police Detectives served a search warrant yesterday, March 2, on Kosciusko County Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine in their continuing investigation into allegations dealing with a grand jury indictment. The indictment, opened Monday morning, resulted in initial charges of three counts of bribery, one count of intimidation, one count of assisting a criminal and five counts of official misconduct.

Rovenstine was one of three individuals: Kevin Bronson and Mark Soto facing charges from indictments handed down by the grand jury.

Bronson was indicted on three counts of corrupt business influence and seven counts of intimidation.

Soto was indicted on three counts of corrupt business influence and three counts of intimidation.

Indiana State Police District 24 Bremen Post Lt. Chad Larsh confirmed the search warrant was served. He could not state what the warrant covered.

According to a report by WSBT, ISP detectives left the sheriff’s department with clear plastic bags containing computers, iPad and other electronic items. One bag was observed allegedly containing the name of Rovenstine.

Initially ISP worked with the Warsaw Police Department when the investigation began last summer, with the arrest of Kevin L. Bronson. Following the appointment of Marshall County Prosecutor, E. Nelson Chipman, Jr., as special prosecutor in the case, he asked for an independent investigation by state police.

Rovenstine, who has hired James Voyles, Voyles Zahn & Paul, Indianapolis, will have an initial hearing on the charges at 8:30 a.m. March 17. This is also the same time Soto will appear in court for his initial hearing. No attorney has filed an appearance for Soto as of this morning.

Bronson’s initial hearing will be held at the same time as his sentencing on charges filed in December 2014. That sentencing will take place at 8:30 a.m. March 8. While W. Douglas Lemon is the attorney for Bronson on the criminal charges, no appearance for an attorney has been filed with the courts. Bronson will be sentenced on a charge of plea agreed charge of possession of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a level 5 felony, as a lesser included offense of dealing in cocaine more than one gram, a level 4 felony. Additional charges of possession of cocaine, criminal gang activity and being a habitual offender could be dismissed.