An educational aide at Scott County District 2 has been arrested on Child Porn charges. 

Tyler S. Tscheulin, 23, from Scottsburg, IN, is under arrest and charged with Possession of Child Pornography and Dissemination of Child Pornography.

Tscheulin was listed in an educational aide on the August 2017 minutes of the Scott County District 2 School Board meeting.  Tscheulin also listed Scott County District 2 as a place of employment on his social media page. 

This morning, detectives from the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg executed a search warrant at 240 South Third Street in Scottsburg.

During the search warrant detectives seized computer related items that allegedly contained child pornographic images.

The search warrant was the result of a tip received by the Indiana State Police from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Tscheulin was incarcerated at the Scott County Jail awaiting his first court appearance.

A 64-year-old Mississippi semi truck driver was arrested this afternoon for smoking pot while driving his truck on I-64 in Floyd County.

Barry G. Phelps was arrested and charged with Possession of Cocaine, Dealing in Cocaine, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of a Handgun without a Permit, Operating while Intoxicated and Maintaining a Common Nuisance.

Today at approximately 1:00 pm, trooper Patrick Stinson from the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg observed a semi-tractor and trailer traveling West on Interstate #64 near the 119 Mile Marker in Floyd County exceeding the posted speed limit.

Trooper Stinson stopped the semi-tractor and trailer and while speaking with the driver, identified as Barry G. Phelps, 64, from Vicksburg, MS, he could smell an odor of burnt Marijuana coming from the semi-tractor.

A subsequent search of the semi-tractor yielded a handgun, Cocaine, Marijuana and $7,060.00 Dollars in U. S. Currency.

Barry G. Phelps was arrested and charged with Possession of Cocaine, Dealing in Cocaine, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of a Handgun without a Permit, Operating while Intoxicated and Maintaining a Common Nuisance.

Phelps was incarcerated at the Floyd County Jail.

A Scottsburg man was arrested today on child porn charges.

Tyler S. Tscheulin, 23, from Scottsburg, IN, is under arrest and charged with Possession of Child Pornography and Dissemination of Child Pornography.

This morning, detectives from the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg executed a search warrant at a house on 240 South Third Street in Scottsburg.

During the search warrant detectives seized computer related items that allegedly contained child pornographic images.

The search warrant was the result of a tip received by the Indiana State Police from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Tscheulin was incarcerated at the Scott County Jail awaiting his first court appearance.

Two Fairview Elementary students were arrested by Bloomington Police on Saturday after threats against other students were posted on social media.

According to a press release, the two juveniles are facing charges of intimidation and are being held at Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village in Knox County. Police also arrested two adults and a 17-year-old male.

On Saturday, a Fairview Elementary School representative called Bloomington police about a photo posted on Instagram. The photo showed the two students, ages 11 and 12, holding what looked like firearms. A video depicted one of the boys making threats toward a female student and her brother, reportedly over a dating relationship.

In the video, police say the boy “appeared angry and agitated, indicating that the weapon, an AK-47-type weapon, was real.”

He reportedly threatened the girl and her brother they were -“going to get lit up.”

Police spoke to both the boys involved in the threats. One provided a statement, the other child’s parents refused to allow the child to speak to police.

Detectives secured a search warrant and determined the weapons were an assault-style BB gun and two pistol-style BB guns.

While at the home in the 100 block of South Park Ridge Road, police removed a 17-year-old male after he reportedly told officers they weren’t going to touch him.

When officers confronted him, they said he began resisting and was arrested and handcuffed.

When placed in a patrol vehicle, he reportedly attempted to kick out a rear window and threatened to kill the officer monitoring him.

The 17-year-old is facing charges of intimidation, resisting law enforcement. He had previously been waived to adult court on an armed robbery and burglary charges in December and was on probation at the time of this arrest.

During this same incident, 33-year-old Laquita Perry-Leverston became upset because her child was being arrested as did 37-year-old Paris Leverston.

Both adults continued to be loud and disruptive with police and were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest

More Indiana school threats are occurring with some students being arrested. 

Two female students were arrested today and a male student was recently arrested in Orange County for threats made to Paoli High School.  Threats made to East Washington Community Schools have not been resolved. 

A 12-year-old girl was arrested this morning after she allegedly made online threats towards students and staff at Dugger-Union Community School.

The girl was arrested on a felony charge of intimidation around 12:30 a.m. at her home in Shelburn.

She was taken to the Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village in Vincennes.

Police say the girl made multiple threats through Snapchat.

Sheriff Clark Cottom says officers found no weapons or credible means to carry out the threats, but they handle all threats as if they are real.

“If you threaten our schools, we will hunt you down and arrest you,” he added.

Sheriff Cottom says officers will assist the Dugger Town Marshal with foot patrol at the school today.

The case is among about a dozen school threats in Indiana since the deadly shooting last week at a Florida high school.

Social media threats have also resulted in the arrests of two male students from Carmel High School near Indianapolis and a student at Columbus East High School in southern Indiana.

Evansville police says a 17-year-old boy faces intimidation charges for writing a violence threat on a bathroom stall door last week at Reitz High School.

A female juvenile was arrested this afternoon after threats made at Austin High School yesterday and on social media yesterday evening.

This is one of several events occurring around Southern Indiana in the last 48 hours. (see related stories)

Yesterday afternoon, detective Matt Busick from the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg was called to the Austin High School after a student had made an alleged threat to harm others.

Detective Busick with complete cooperation from the school system, the Scott County Prosecutor’s Office and the Austin City Police, began his investigation based on that incident at the school.

As he was investigating that alleged threat, the female juvenile began posting other alleged threats on a popular social media page. 

Detective Busick completed his investigation and presented it to the Scott County Prosecutor’s Office this morning. The Scott County Prosecutor’s Office requested a pick up order on the female juvenile.

An order was granted by the Scott County Circuit Court and the female was arrested and transported to the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center in Jeffersonville.

She was charged with Juvenile Delinquency/Intimidation, (Three Counts).

The Indiana State Police and Scott County Prosecutor’s Office want school kids and their parents to know that any and all real or perceived threats towards a school and/or school kids will be dealt with the utmost urgency and thoroughness to make an arrest and stop the threat.

It is also to be noted that no threat will be considered funny or cute and will not be tolerated.

A former Orleans Junior-Senior High School teacher died from his injuries after a tree fell on him Sunday.

According to Sheriff Mike Branham, 76-year-old Ron Toppe, died at the scene after a tree fell on him in the 100 block of Rockwood Drive.

A passing motorist noticed the fallen tree and a truck blocking the roadway at 5:50 p.m. The driver gout out to investigate and found Toppe and called 911.

Police say Topper was clearing trees with a chainsaw when the tree split and fell back and hit him. Toppe was found unconscious and was transported by ambulance to IU Bedford Health Hospital, where he died from his injuries.

A Salem man was sentenced to 1,095 days after a fatal hit and run accident during the early morning hours of Jan. 10, 2016 on State Road 56, near Quaker Lane.

Then 22-year-old Derek Andrew Deaton of Canton was arrested and charged with the accident that killed 70-year-old Mitchell Lovins of Scottsburg.

Lovens died of massive trauma to his body after being hit by Deaton’s 1995 Chevrolet S-10 pickup.

Deaton was sentenced to 1,095 days (or three years) in jail and was given credit for 179 days served.

Upon Completion of 242 days of his sentence, Deaton will be released to serve 547 days (410 actual) to Hoosier Hills PACT Community Corrections Day Reporting Program, along with home detention and alcohol monitoring.

Upon successful completion of Day Reporting, Deaton will report back to Washington County Jail to serve the rest of his sentence – 306 days(230 actual).

Deaton’s attorney can petition the court prior to the second phase of incarceration and request a modification, which could result in fewer days in jail.

Police arrested Deaton after receiving a tip about the accident.

Deaton pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, a Level 5 felony, on July 27, 2017.

According to police, Lovins was traveling west on State Road 56 near Quaker Lane when his minivan slid of the roadway. Police say it appears Lovins left his vehicle and started to walk east on State Road 56 when he was struck by Deaton’s 1995 Chevrolet pickup.

Police say Deaton and a friend, Olivia Kendall, who had both been drinking according to the probable cause affidavit, were driving to the Scottsburg Waffle House from Slimo’s Saloon when their vehicle struck Lovins.

Testimony given at the hearing indicated that Kendall had been dozing, but woke up on impact and asked what they had hit and Deaton told her he’d struck a deer.

Instead of going to the Waffle House, Deaton drove to the home he shared with his parents in Canton.

Witness testimony at the sentencing hearing indicated Kendall later began hearing news of a man found dead on State Road 56 around the time she and Deaton had been in the area.

She went out to look at Deaton’s car and noticed the damage to the windshield and driver’s side headlight, damage later called “extensive” an ISP Detective’s report.

She pieced the events together and reported the incident to the state police

Yesterday, Indiana State Police Detectives arrested a Greensburg, Indiana man on charges related to the releasing of confidential information while he was a dispatcher for Decatur County 911 and a registrar for the Decatur County Memorial Hospital.

The investigation by Detective Joe Loyd began in January of this year when the Indiana State Police was notified that Young Soo Sung, age 33, Greensburg, Indiana had released confidential information while he was a dispatcher for Decatur County.  

The investigation determined that while Sung was a dispatcher between September and December 2017, he obtained confidential information from electronic criminal investigative files utilized by the Greensburg Police Department and Decatur County Sheriff’s Department.  

Sung then allegedly shared photographs and other information obtained in those files with acquaintances. 

During the course of the investigation, it was determined that Sung also allegedly mishandled confidential information while he worked part-time as a registrar at the Decatur County Memorial Hospital.

Sung was removed from both positions as a result of the allegations.

At the conclusion of the investigation, the case was submitted to the Decatur County Prosecutor’s Office for review.  A warrant was then issued for the arrest of Young S. Sung.

Yesterday, Sung was arrested on a warrant for one count of official misconduct, level 6 felony, and two counts of offenses against intellectual property, level 6 felony.

The case is pending in the Decatur County Superior Court.