A Seymour man who was already in jail on other charges was charged with stealing electricity from his apartment building.

On Tuesday, an investigation was conducted into the theft of electricity at the Sycamore Springs Apartment Complex south of Seymour, IN, in June 2017. 

The allegation was that a tenant, James F. Stafford, whose electricity had been shut off, ran an extension cord from the common hallway electrical outlet to his apartment. 

The electricity is paid for by apartment complex management, not Mr. Stafford.  Mr. Stafford was using the extension cord for his own purposes while family members, including three children were living with him.

The common areas and hallways of the building are open to the public so the location of the extension cord was accessible to anyone who came or went from the apartment building including children who frequented the building.

Mr. Stafford was arrested and charged with Theft, a class A Misdemeanor, Criminal Recklessness a class B Misdemeanor, and Neglect of a Dependent a level 6 Felony.  He is being held without bond in the Jackson County Jail. 

Mr. Stafford was already in Jackson County Jail on other charges from a separate investigation.

Stafford was arrested by Reserve Deputy Scott Davis.

The head girls basketball coach at Trinity Lutheran High School in Seymour was arrested Sunday night on domestic battery charges.

Seymour Police arrested 45-year-old Michael Lang on a Level 6 felony charge after an incident reported just after 7 p.m. Sunday on Highlawn Avenue.

According to Seymour Police, Lang grabbed and shoved a woman during a fight at the woman’s home,

The woman declined medical treatment.

According to police, no children were present in the room where the incident occurred, but a second woman did witness the incident.

Lang is being held without bond in the Jackson County Jail without bond pending his initial hearing.

Lang became coach of the Cougars in 2011 and has compiled a record of 86 wins and 54 losses over the past six years. Prior to taking the job at Trinity, Lang had been a boys basketball assistant coach at Seymour High School.

The Cougars also won sectional titles in 2013 and 2014. 

A woman’s erratic driving Sunday morning caught the attention of an off duty trooper and lead police on a 30 mile chase.  

Indiana State Trooper Jason Pratt was traveling south on I-65 near the 124 mile marker, 71st Street exit, around 9:00 a.m. when  he saw a red Dodge Avenger pass a car on the right shoulder.  

The female driver then aggressively moved to the left lane and quickly accelerated to over 100 mph. 

Pratt ran the license plate and discovered that the car had been reported as stolen.  Trooper Pratt pulled his police car behind the woman in an effort to signal the driver to pull over but she refused to stop.  

Pratt along with several other troopers and Indianapolis Metro officers pursued the driver south bound on I-65 for nearly 30 miles before the woman hit stop-sticks, lost control and collided with the center guardrail. 

The stop sticks had been deployed by a Whiteland Police officer near the 94 mile marker in Whiteland.  

Officers surrounded the car and took the driver into custody.  The women, who would not give police her identity, was transported by ambulance to Eskenazi Hospital for evaluation. 

She was eventually identified using her fingerprints as 44 year-old Shawna Lynn Stacy from park Hills Missouri.  

Stacy has been charged preliminarily with resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, refusal to identify, and reckless driving.  

The Washington County Sheriff’s Department have confirmed that Kayla Satterwhite, 17, was located and is safe. 

According to family messages on social media, Kayla contacted her sister last evening from a cell phone that police had previously pinged and located in the Courtland neighborhood in Louisville and in Washington County over the past few nights. 

According to Angie Satterwhite, Kayla contacted her sister in Jackson County Monday night. 

Satterwhite’s sister, Britny Acton posted on Facebook that Kayla had hitchhiked to her house and that she took her to turn herself in at the Jackson County Juvenile Detention Center last evening. 

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Angie Satterwhite sat in an office at Neff Family Fertilizer today, opening up to WSLM and WRLW 17 NEWS about the disappearance of her daughter, 17-year-old Kayla Marie Satterwhite.

Satterwhite, a sophomore at West Washington High School, was reported missing by her mother on Saturday, July 8, 2017, at 9:06 am.

Kayla was last seen at her residence at 6795 West State Road 56, Salem, Indiana, atapproximately 4:00 am.

Kayla is 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds and has blue eyes and strawberry blonde hair. She was last seen wearing gray shorts and a gray t-shirt.