Police investigating Smedley Fatality
A crash at 9 p.m. Friday night claimed the life of a 32-year-old Pekin woman.
The wreck occurred at the corner of St. Rd. 60 and Smedley Road.
32-year-old Beverly Nicole Sneed, of Pekin, was traveling west on St. Rd. 60 in her Buick Alero when it ran off the road and struck a parked car.
According to a police report, Sneed was ejected from the car, and was found dead when emergency personnel arrived.
The Indiana State Police is investigating an early morning homicide one mile west of Elnora.
State Police officers responded to a traffic accident and found the body of a 40-year-old Elnora man.
After turning around and checking the area again, the trooper discovered Aaron Michael Byers, 40, Elnora, lying along the corn field on the west side of the roadway. Byers was unresponsive.
At 5:09 A.M., a State Trooper responded to a call of a traffic accident with injuries on County Road 300 East, approximately one quarter mile south of State Road 58.
While approaching the scene, the trooper was informed by two pedestrians that they saw a male with injuries walking south along CR 300E. The trooper drove south but was unable to locate a crash or the injured male.
Emergency medical personnel and first responders arrived on scene; however, were not able to revive Byers. He was pronounced as deceased by the Daviess County Coroner.
Byers’s vehicle had been driven through the cornfield and crashed into a tree line approximately one quarter mile southwest of where he was found. State Police detectives and crime scene investigators gathered enough evidence to determine that the death was in fact a homicide and was not a result of the crash. The official cause of death will be determined and released pending an autopsy.
The case remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Indiana State Police Post in Jasper by calling 1-812-482-1441.
Under the Law, criminal charges are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Seat Belt Stop Leads to Habitual Traffic Violator and Marijuana
Yesterday evening, trooper Nick Yaeger from the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg conducted a traffic stop on a green 1998 Dodge truck at U.S. Highway #31 and Lover’s Lane in Scottsburg.
The traffic stop was for the driver not wearing his seat belt. During the traffic stop it was learned the driver, Carl Tharp, 40, from Lexington, IN, was driving while being a Habitual Traffic Violator. After he was placed under arrest an inventory of the Dodge truck he was driving yielded over five ounces of Marijuana.
Tharp was also in possession of a set of weighing scales.
Carl Tharp was placed under arrest and transported to the Scott County Jail where he was incarcerated on the charges of Dealing Marijuana, Possession of Marijuana, Driving while being a Habitual Traffic Violator, Possession of Paraphernalia and Maintaining a Common Nuisance.
All Subjects are Innocent until and unless Proven Guilty in a Court of Law
