Coffee Club Podcast 04-18-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 04-18-2014
Swap Shop Podcast 04-17-2014
Swap Shop Podcast 04-17-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 04-17-2014
Coffee Club Podcast 04-17-2014
Medora Schools Looking For New Board Member
Medora is looking for a new school board member after one member was hired as the district’s treasurer and administrative assistant.
Medora Community Schools Board of Trustees accepted the resignation Monday night of Teresa Brewer.
The board hired her in March to replace longtime school treasurer and administrative assistant Vicki Dean effective Aug. 1.
Dean is retiring July 31 after working the past 30 years with the school district, one of the state’s smallest. She earlier worked three years with the district before leaving to start her family, giving her 33 years on the job total.
Traffic Stop and Drug Arrest
On yesterday’s date at approximately 3:00 pm, Trooper Mark LaMaster was traveling north on Interstate 65 around the 4.0 Mile Marker when he made a traffic stop on a 2000 Mercury Mystique. The driver of the vehicle, Perry May, 53, of Sellersburg, was found to be a Habitual Traffic Violator. After arresting Perry May for being a Habitual Traffic Violator it was discovered that he was in Possession of a Controlled Substance without a valid prescription.
Perry May was incarcerated at the Clark County Jail awaiting his first court appearance.
Meth materials siezed during search of Pekin home
This past Monday evening, trooper Kevin Bowling of the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg was driving on Voyles Road in Pekin when a female flagged him down advising she had allegedly been battered.
For further investigation, Trooper Bowling and other officers went to 8788 Voyles Road in Pekin where the alleged batterer, William A. McCarty, 36, was living. After speaking to him he was arrested for Strangulation and Battery. He was transported and incarcerated at the Washington County Jail.
While officers were at the residence on Voyles Road they came in contact with a female named Carol Martin, 55, from South Martinsburg Road in Salem. She was visiting the residence and after officers ran a check on her, they were advised she was wanted out of Washington County on an outstanding arrest warrant. She was also taken into custody and incarcerated at the Washington County Jail.
Continuing the investigation at the residence, Trooper Bowling and other officers were able to obtain enough information to get a search warrant for the residence. During a search of the residence items were located that are commonly used in the making of Methamphetamine.
The actual homeowner, Joseph D. Sizemore, was already incarcerated at the Washington County Jail on unrelated charges at the time of the search warrant. He was charged with the additional charges from the search warrant of Possession of Chemical Precursors for the Manufacturing of Methamphetamine, Possession of Methamphetamine, Maintaining a Common Nuisance, Unlawful Possession of a Syringe and Possession of Paraphernalia.
William A. McCarty was also charged with the additional charges of Possession of Chemical Precursors for the Manufacturing of Methamphetamine, Maintaining a Common Nuisance, Unlawful Possession of a Syringe and Possession of Paraphernalia.
Swap Shop Podcast 04-16-2014
Swap Shop Podcast 04-16-2014
Traffic Stop Nets Paraphernalia and Schedule Four Drugs
Shortly after 11:00 pm last evening, a trooper from the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg made a traffic stop on a 1991 Nissan Frontier for driving off of the roadway.
The stop was made at Slate Run Road near May Drive in Floyd County.
During the traffic stop, the passenger of the vehicle, Jodi C. Schaefer, 33, from New Albany, IN, was found to be in possession of alleged drug paraphernalia. A subsequent search found Jodi C. Schaefer to also be in possession of a Schedule Four Controlled Substance.
Jodi C. Schaefer was placed under arrest for Possession of a Schedule Four Controlled Substance and Possession of Paraphernalia and incarcerated at the Floyd Country Jail awaiting her first court appearance.
Salem Man Arrested for Molesting Clark County Girl
A 30-year-old Salem man turned himself in on Tuesday, April 15 at the Washington County Detention Center for molesting a Clark County girl in March.
Joseph Scott Amburgey turned himself into the Washington County Jail Tuesday, April 15 for Child Molesting, A Felony, (Two Counts).
On March 18th of this year, a detective from the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg was contacted by the Washington County Department of Child Services in reference to
a female juvenile from Clark County that reported she had been molested by an older male whom lived in Washington County.
After an investigation was completed by the detective an arrest warrant was issued out of a Washington County Court for Amburgey’s arrest, 30, of Highway #160 in Salem, IN.
