Swap Shop Podcast 03-11-2014
Swap Shop Podcast 03-11-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 03-11-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 03-11-2014
Hunsucker, Vallonia, killed in accident near Medora
A Jackson County woman died Monday afternoon of injuries caused when her husband’s car left the road and struck a utility pole northwest of Medora.
According to Jackson County Sheriff Michael Carothers, 94-year-old Mary Margaret Hunsucker, of Vallonia, was pronounced dead at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis at 2:03 p.m.
The Marion County coroner’s office says Hunsucker died from head injuries.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department says that at about noon, a vehicle driven by 87-year-old John Hunsucker, of Vallonia, was traveling west on U.S. 50 when, for unknown reasons, the vehicle left the roadway and struck a utility pole head on.
Both John Hunsucker and his wife Mary Margaret suffered head injuries.
Mary was flown from Schneck Medical Center to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She died a short time later.
John Hunsucker was taken by ambulance to Methodist Hospital. His condition was not made available.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department is still working to determine what caused this fatal crash.
Swap Shop Podcast 03-10-2014
Swap Shop Podcast 03-10-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 03-10-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 03-10-2014
Salem man arrested after striking 11-year-old
A Salem man was arrested and charged with battery after he allegedly struck an 11-year-old child.
Forty-year-old Mark Fleenor is also being charged with intimidations for threats he made. According to police, the child was playing on the computer and Fleenor became angry when he told the child to stop playing.
When the child didn’t get off the computer, Fleenor allegedly hit the child on the back. The child suffered injuries to his back.
Fleenor denied the charges and said the child fell after being knocked to the floor by the dog.
Police says, when arrested Fleenor was intoxicated and tested nearly three time the legal limit. Fleenor is on probation and therefore not allowed to consume alcohol.
He then became uncooperative with police and verbally threatened the lives of both the child’s mother and police officers.
Three arrested for string of burglaries in Washington County
Washington County officers recovered numerous weapons and other items worth thousands of dollars in an investigation that resulted in the arrest of three men whom police say are responsible for a string of burglaries dating back to November.
The victims include neighbors of two of the men. James Spicer, Joshua Wieging and Jason Crawford were arrested and charged with numerous felony theft and burglary charges.
According to Detective Brent Miller of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, warrants were issued last Tuesday for the men. They are accused of burglaries on Nov. 12 and 19. Before those warrants were served, two more burglaries took place. In the first, perpetrators kicked in the front door of a home on Cole Road last week, ransacking the home and taking several items.
The next day a home on Walton Road in Campbellsburg was broken into. In that instance, the homeowner and a friend were elsewhere on the property cutting wood. As the friend was going back to the home he saw a vehicle backed up to the home and the door of the home open. He confronted the two males, who told him they were looking for the homeowner. They then got in the truck and drove away. The man wrote down the license plate and called police.
Police then went to a home on Motsinger Road where they found several items including guns stolen from a home on Cole Road.
Wieging was arrested on a warrant at his home on Pilgram Way, the next day. During a search of that home officers recovered more stolen items in a crawl space under the home. A cooler on the property was “a treasure trove” of stolen items, including a ladie’s wallet with I.D. and a checkbook and a man’s wallet.
The stolen items included 11 firearms and a crossbow, worth a total of several thousand dollars, he said.
Officers even got a bonus, making two arrests of individuals with outstanding warrants whom were associated with the men. Rachel Sullivan, 21, Fredericksburg, was at Wieging’s home. She was arrested on warrants for three counts of felony forgery and three counts of felony theft.
Spicer’s younger brother, 19-year-old Jason Burton, of Campbellsburg, was arrested on two warrants for failure to appear.
Wieging was connected to several burglaries, including his own neighbor, right across the street from his home.
When arrested, Wieging was out on bond for a Class C felony robbery he was arrested for in July.
Assisting in the arrests were Conservation Officer Neal Brewington and Indiana State Police Troopers.
