Indiana State Police Unveil Clan Lab Address Website
Today, in conjunction with Governor Pence’s ceremonial signing of House Bill 1141 the Indiana State Police unveiled a new link on the meth website.
The link lists properties that have previously been identified by law enforcement as the location of a clandestine lab. 
This site provides the user with the date of seizure, county, street address, type of lab and location of the lab on the property listed. In addition, labs seized in vehicles will have the vehicle identification number listed if the lab was seized after December 31, 2012.
Only labs that have been reported to the Indiana State Police either through an ISP criminal incident report or via EPIC 143 report submission by another police agency will be listed on the website.
The address lists have specific timelines and delisting requirements under HB 1141. If the address fits within the statutory timelines, users will be able to download the ISP Occurrence Report and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s Certificate of Illegal Drug Lab Cleanup submitted for a particular property.
If it has been disclosed through a real estate transaction that a clan lab was on the property for sale but it is not listed on the website, contact the ISP Meth Suppression Section at 317-234-4591 or within Indiana 1-877-MSS-METH. ISP can determine if the property was delisted after cleanup or if a lab was never reported to the Indiana State Police for that location.
Occurrence Reports will be available from ISP and Cleanup Certificates will still be available from IDEM for those delisted properties.
“This project has been over a year in the making, and we are pleased that Representative Wendy McNamara and Senator Randy Head worked with us and the other entities involved to pass this legislation that protects Hoosiers from the dangers posed by meth lab contamination.” stated ISP Meth Suppression Commander F/Sgt. Niki Crawford. “This is a victory for everyone involved.”
To visit the website go to www.meth.in.gov. Inquiries regarding the website should be directed to F/Sgt. Niki Crawford atncrawford@isp.in.gov or (317) 234-4591.
Coffee Club Podcast 06-17-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 06-17-2014
State Announces Plans for Crisis Assistance Summer Cooling Program
The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) has released plans for the 2014 summer cooling program through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which begins on June 16th and concludes on August 30th.
IHCDA and its administrative partners provided over 130,000 households with $47.8M in benefit assistance during the 2013-2014 LIHEAP winter heating season. Because most of the program funds were expended during the winter months, Indiana will not run a summer cooling assistance program this year.
The summer cooling program has traditionally provided a $50 benefit directly to utility companies for households who qualified for and participated in the recent winter heating assistance program. Due to funding constraints related to program expenditures during the unusually harsh winter, households will not be receiving the $50 benefit this summer.
IHCDA recognizes that crisis situations still may occur through Indiana; therefore administrating agencies with any remaining funds may provide crisis assistance in the amount of $200 or less to eligible households who received disconnection notices through August 2014.
Additionally, summer cooling program participants may be eligible to receive:
- Air conditioners (after submission of required medical affidavits)
o Existing clients who received air conditioners before May 30, 2009 or prior years may be eligible for new units.
o Households who received units between June 1, 2009 and August 30, 2013 are ineligible at this time.
o Households with central air conditioning are ineligible for this assistance.
- Hoosiers who heat their homes through deliverable fuels, like propane, wood or oil, may apply for the summer fill program.
o Clients wishing to participate must provide documentation as required during the winter heating season.
o Eligible clients can receive up to an additional $400 in crisis assistance.
The Summer Cooling Program is administered by Indiana’s network of Community Action Agencies (CAA). Please consult the Indiana Community Action Association’s CAA map to locate the agency which serves your county: http://www.incap.org/energyinfo.html
For further information on LIHEAP programs please contact Lynell Westbrook, IHCDA Community Programs Manager atlwestbrook@ihcda.in.gov.
Swap Shop Podcast 06-16-2014
Swap Shop Podcast 06-16-2014
Police Arrest 3 after chase in Jackson County Sunday
Theft and police chase ended with the arrest of three people Sunday.
25-year-old Joshua Jones and 23-year-old Aaron Ward, both of Seymour and 24-year-old Nicholas Garrett, of Crothersville were arrested.
All three are facing charges of resisting arrest by fleeing in a motor vehicle, resisting arrest by fleeing on foot, leaving the scene of an accident, possession of stolen property, auto theft, criminal recklessness with a vehicle and attempted involuntary manslaughter with a vehicle.
Garrett was also charged with false informing. Jones also was arrested for non-residential burglary involving the theft of the van as well as auto theft involving a stolen vehicle found at his residence on Laurel Street that was stolen from a residence on County Road 275 North/
Jones was also arrested on a warrant for a pursuit involving another stolen vehicle in Jackson County that occurred on June 13 on County Road 300 South. That truck was recovered and returned to its owner.
Officers were notified about a van that had wrecked which lead police to Ward.
The chase started when Jackson County Reserve Officer Scott Davis spotted a 1997 green Chevy Astro Van in the Jackson Park Shopping Center in Seymour at 4:11p.m. Saturday. The van was reported stolen Saturday morning from the 2000 block of South 400 East.
While attempting to check the vehicle, the driver later identified as Jones, fled from the shopping center. The chase continued out of city limits on County Road 850 East, where the van went into a ditch at County Road 200N.
The van drove into a yard at that location, back onto 200N and then attempted to ram Reserve Officer Scott Davis’ marked sport utility vehicle. The pursuit continued east on 200 North to the intersection of County Road 1000 East, where the van drove into a private driveway, northeast through a soybean field and into some woods before striking a tree.
Jones, Garrett and Ward got out of the van and fleed into the woods.
Jones and Ward got away, but Garrett was caught by Davis.
Later Saturday evening, Ward was found on the front porch of a residence in the 10000 block of East 250 North being detained by the property owner’s pet dogs.
Jones was arrested Sunday in the 100 block of East Laurel Street in Seymour after a stolen vehicle was found at that residence.
That vehicle had been stolen along with an all-terrain vehicle sometime Saturday night or early Sunday from a residence in the 10000 block of East 275 North.
The three men remained in Jackson County Jail at Brownstown awaiting their initial hearings in Jackson Circuit Court.
Other investigating county officers included Lt. Darin Downs, Deputy Dustin Steward, Reserve Deputy Rick Hirtzel, Reserve Deputy Steve Murphy, Reserve Deputy Charlie Murphy, Reserve Deputy Greg Murphy and Deputy Jeff Walters.
Also assisting in the arrests, pursuits, and investigations were officers from Seymour Police Department, Crothersville Police Department, Brownstown Police Department and the Indiana State Police.
A Dozen Animals Siezed from Salem Farm
A dozen animals have been seized from a farm on Salem’s westside.
Washington County Animal control officer Randy Lee say the animals were taken from a farm on Rushcreek Road just outside the Salem city limits.
Authorities said it was a seizure one year in the making. The animals, six horses, five goats and one donkey were thin and frail and are undergoing treatment.
The name of their owner is not being released and no criminal charges have been filed at this time. The investigation continues.
“The goats were in 3 feet of muck, feces and urine and had been nailed into a stall for a year. You don’t keep animals that way,” said Jo-Claire Corcoran with Heartland Equine Rescue.
Passersby alerted authorities to the conditions in May 2013.
“Over the course of the year, they would go back to check and the animals were doing a bit better. He had gotten some food in, and then I guess he thought, ‘Well I’ve satisfied them now and I’ll go back to doing what I was doing before.’ When they’d go back, the horses would be in as bad of shape again or worse,” says Corcoran.
Washington County Animal Control served the seizure warrant.
The Heartland Equine Rescue helped, loading the animals and relocating them to a facility in Henryville.
Corcoran says her group will pay to treat the animals and eventually find them homes.
“Any longer and they would have been in worse shape. The one may not have made it. He’s in such bad shape. The goats, it’s really hard to have emaciated goats, they eat a lot of different things. Just turn them out and they’ll find things to eat,” said Corcoran.
Corcoran says she’s just glad they got to the animals in time.
“The best feeling is being able to get there and get them out and then to see them here where they’re eating and they’re happy and everything they’ll need will be right here,” she added.
Coffee Club Podcast 06-16-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 06-16-2014
RELAY FOR LIFE POSTS BIGGEST TOTAL EVER!
RELAY FOR LIFE POSTS BIGGEST TOTAL EVER!
After a year of fundraising from various businesses and teams, Washington County held its Relay for Life event this past weekend at the Salem High School Football field and track where another groundbreaking year was tallied up.
In all, $157,108.16. was raised — about $10,000 more than last year. In fact, from 1999 -2013 Washington County has raised $1,162,287.00.
“We were all amazed and excited!” said Terri Suvak, Relay Chair. “We all feel very blessed to live in such a loving, caring, and giving county.”
The top three fundraising teams were:
- GKN $12,786.00
- St. Vincent $11,275.90
- Pioneers of Hope $10,985.44
“Last year we were in the top ten Relays in Indiana,” said Suvak. “I would think we would be again this year.”
Fundraisers were held during the year to generate much of the funds, but during the two-day event held last Friday and Saturday, there are activities held in order to generate funds to help push the total higher.
For example, there is the Relay Jail in which you can have someone put into jail for a donation. They need a donation, also, to get out of jail.
There is food for donations, massages for donation and the popular Relay Hose Down Fundraiser, in which community members are voted on to get hosed down by the Salem Fire Department. The most popular and the person with the most money get soaked.
There were games and activities planned from the opening ceremony at 6p on Friday night through closing ceremonies on Saturday at 11a.
“It was a great weekend! The weather was perfect and everyone truly did Relay Like Rock Stars!!!” said Suvak.
Scott County Crash Injures Five
This morning shortly after midnight, a 911 call was received at the Scott County Dispatch Center of a two car crash that had occurred on Interstate #65 South Bound at the 27.5 Mile Marker.
When officers arrived they discovered a white 2010 Hyundai was traveling north on Interstate #65 and for an unknown reason crossed the center median into South Bound traffic.
When the white Hyundai crossed the median it struck a black 2014 Ford pickup truck travelling south on Interstate #65. The Hyundai was being driven by Evan Allen, 28, from Scottsburg, IN. The black Ford pickup truck was being driven by Roger A. Timbrook, 53, from Fort Wayne, IN.
The black Ford pickup truck had three passengers, Margaret Timbrook, 51; Jennifer L. Timbrook, 17 and Jonathon Timbrook, 21 years of age, all from Fort Wayne, IN.
The Indiana State Police Reconstruction Team was called to the crash scene to reconstruct the crash. All occupants of both vehicles were wearing their seat belts and all occupants of both vehicles were transported to the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, KY by either air ambulance or ground ambulance with serious injuries.
Assisting troopers at the scene was the Scottsburg City Police Department, the Scott County Sheriff’s Department, the Clark County Sheriff’s Department, the Sellersburg Police Department, Scott County EMS and the Scottsburg Fire Department.
