Indiana Gov. Mike Braun suggested Monday, Feb. 3 he could reverse the previous administration’s unwillingness to disclose how much the state paid to acquire the drug used to execute convicted killer Joseph Corcoran.
Read MoreThe Indiana Department of Correction plans to close the state prison in Michigan City after a new, $1.2 billion prison facility was approved last week by budget regulators.
Read MoreFrank Daniels, 35, with addresses on file as both 721 S. Main St., Middlebury, and 220 S. Bronson St., Warsaw, was sentenced in three separate cases in Kosciusko Circuit Court Monday, March 8.
Read MoreWARSAW — A Syracuse man received a 17-year prison sentence after accepting a plea deal for drug dealing and other charges in Kosciusko Circuit Court Monday, Jan. 6. Neal Ryan Minnick, 40, 202 E. Washington St., Syracuse, pleaded guilty to six charges in two separate cases. A third … Read More
WARSAW — A man convicted of multiple drug charges received a 25-year sentence in Kosciusko County Circuit Court Tuesday, Sept. 24. The sentence was the result of a plea agreement involving charges in four separate cases. Per the plea agreement, Eric Scott McFarland, 38, with an address on … Read More
KOSCIUSKO — Law enforcement agencies are currently searching for a man who was sentenced to serve seven years at the Indiana Department of Corrections in November 2017. Kevin L. Bronson, 59, was one of three persons indicted by a Kosciusko County Grand Jury in late 2015, with official … Read More
INDIANA — Indiana Department of Corrections offender Travis Hornett, 39, who escaped Wednesday, July 10, was captured shortly after midnight Thursday, July 11. Officials yesterday confirmed that Hornett, of Waterloo, walked away from the low-level facility located at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. At approximately 11 a.m. … Read More
KOSCIUSKO — A North Webster man was sentenced to three years at the Indiana Department of Corrections for his involvement in a drug deal that took place at a local nursing home. Kevin Stuckman, 20, 5430 North CR 900E, North Webster, pleaded guilty to dealing in methamphetamine, a … Read More
WARSAW — Kimbert Alvin Gregory Crafton, 34, 609 W. Boston, Syracuse, has found himself returning to the Indiana Department of Corrections to serve out his sentence in two Kosciusko County cases. He had been released from IDOC March 17 after serving time for probation violation in a Marshall … Read More
WARSAW — County Sheriff Kyle Dukes spoke to the Kosciusko County Council on Thursday night, Feb. 14 and touted his efforts to continue to reduce the county jail’s prison population and also invited county officials to come take a whiff of the place since his tenure began at … Read More
KOSCIUSKO — A Syracuse man was sentenced to five years in the Indiana Department of Corrections in Kosciusko Circuit Court Wednesday, Dec. 26, for dealing methamphetamine while children were present at a residence. Jerry Wayne Jilton, 29, 509 Prairie Drive, Syracuse, through a plea agreement, pleaded guilty to … Read More
KOSCIUSKO — A Warsaw man was sentenced to 15 years in the Indiana Department of Corrections in Kosciusko Circuit Court Wednesday, Dec. 26, in three different cases involving animal cruelty, battery and drug charges. In the first case, Jerrod Wayne Turpen, 33, 3171 Deerfield Path, Warsaw, was charged … Read More
WARSAW — Nathan Ries, 18, who has had addresses of 16032 CR 52, Syracuse, and 8017 E. Pioneer Way, North Webster, is going to have to prove to the court he really has changed. Ries, who was involved in two incidents allegedly involving drugs, retaliation and assault rifles, … Read More
ELKHART — “It’s not everything you wanted,” Special Judge Stephen Bowers, Elkhart Superior Court 2, told Alexander Jackson Thursday, Nov. 29. “The step down is more pronounced as before… .” Jackson, 27, Syracuse, was before Bowers for a hearing on a sentence modification with the courtroom nearly packed … Read More
WARSAW — Coulter M. Slone, 20, 1520 E. Winona Ave., Warsaw, will be serving an additional two years at the Indiana Department of Corrections following his sentencing Thursday, Sept. 27. Slone is currently serving a four-year sentence in an Allen County case. Slone pleaded guilty to two level … Read More
WARSAW — A South Whitley man was sentenced in Kosciusko County Superior Court 1 on Thursday, Sept. 20, for his role in an attempted retaliation between drug dealers, according to the police report. Jeffery John Walker, 23, 106 N. Maple St., South Whitley, was initially charged with dealing … Read More
