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Thursday, FLOCK cameras came in handy when Fort Wayne police closed in on Jamari Deshawn Wilcher, 19, of Fort Wayne who was arrested and accused of operating a stolen car, court documents said.

An officer fired in June from the Fort Wayne Police Department for theft and improper conduct has filed a lawsuit in Allen Superior Court, hoping to force the city to reinstate him.

In April, the 39-year-old was charged with Felony 5 child solicitation for intercourse, Felony 6 dissemination of matter harmful to minors and misdemeanor inappropriate communication with a child (where) defendant used a computer network to commit the offense. Redd was on the verge of going to trial next week. Tomorrow Redd will plead guilty in front of Allen Superior Court Magistrate Sam Keirns and in that court, you allocate, you state what exactly you did wrong.

It’s difficult to imagine any scenario for Kenneth R. Hogan, Jr. that would offer freedom, except for the afterlife. Convicted in June of the shooting death of David Norris, one of his best friends, and the non-fatal shooting of Dominique White, a sometime companion, the 69-year-old's sentence climbed to a high of 125 years with consecutive sentencing,65 for murder, 40 for attempted murder and 20 years for using a gun, known in Indiana as the gun enhancement that can add bet

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---Speculation on the fate of the downtown Allen County Jail can probably come to a halt. Allen County Commissioner Ron Turpin, the newest commissioner and organizer of Restore Allen, an ad hoc group that meets to improve the local criminal justice system, put any rumors the jail might be used to abate homelessness to rest at the July 24 Community Corrections Advisory Board meeting. “The current jail will come down. We’re not going to use that property for

FORT WAYNE, Ind. ---When it came time for Devon Stewart to speak, he tried to explain why he shot an 86-year-old woman standing inside her front door, defenseless, around 10:30 p.m. on June 1 of last year. Just 18, no place to call home, according to a probable cause affidavit, he was just “following the crowd” and didn’t realize until later the “severity” of his actions.

The week suspension from July 6-10 came almost immediately after two sex crimes cases were continued on July 2 in Allen Superior Court. Gull was the lead deputy prosecutor on both cases.

Allen Superior Court is looking for a new magistrate in the juvenile division and applications are open. Magistrate David Pappas, appointed in 2013 to the Family Relations division where he presided over cases at the Allen County Juvenile Center (ACJC), is retiring as of Oct. 30, according to a release from the Allen Superior Court website.

It was such a spectacle that it was immediately reported on Nosey Neighbors of Fort Wayne, the online, highly entertaining gossip mill. On the Fourth of July, during that most American of pastimes around here - a local TinCaps baseball game - a brawl broke out to rival anything you might witness at a late-night dive bar.

STATEMENT FROM CHRISTINA GULL NOW INCLUDED BELOW ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---Christina Gull, a candidate for Allen Superior Court judge who hopes to follow her mother, Frances Gull, on to the bench, was suspended last week from her position as a deputy prosecutor at the Allen County Prosecutor’s office. The Probable Cause has confirmed that the suspension extended from July 6 through July 10. This reporter has reached out to Gull for a statement. Allen County Prosecutor Michael McA

Charges were filed against Carlos Ellis, Jr. 19 in April 2025 and a friend of his, now an “unknown” suspect, for murder, felony murder and attempted robbery. Since then, the latter two charges were dropped. Ellis was found guilty of murder Thursday in Allen Superior Court after a three-day trial, Judge Fran Gull presiding.

Prior to Monday’s sentencing in Judge David Zent’s courtroom, Christopher A. Graber, 33, pleaded guilty to raping the victim numerous times when she was between 11 and 13. James Graber, 29, violated her in his own home and elsewhere when she was a little bit older and pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct with a minor.

Former Fort Wayne mayoral and U.S. congressional candidate Tim Smith filed a complaint in Allen Circuit Court this year claiming a Warsaw-based attorney breached confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in a child sex abuse settlement and caused Smith reputational harm.

The board voted to terminate Chapman Monday at a special session. In March 2025, Chapman paid an older, mentally ill man $20 for seven guns found to be worth $4,500 when the man told Chapman six times he wanted the guns destroyed.

Two brothers, members of an area Amish community, are scheduled to be sentenced July 6 in Allen County after taking plea deals on charges of child sex crimes in Allen County. James Graber, 29, of Spencerville, and his brother Chris A. Graber, 33, of Grabill, have pending related cases in DeKalb County.

During an interview, Fosnight admitted to “requesting sexual acts done to a 7 to 9 year old.” He said he may have done this 100 times, court documents said. Under questioning, Fosnight initially admitted to looking at porn sites, his preferred site, “Sexy Asians” where he paid money for desperate people to perform sexual acts.

After being waived into adult court, Hill was charged with attempted murder, a Level 1 Felony that, if convicted, could mean a sentence between 20 and 40 years. His initial hearing was set for today. Hill is also charged with Felony 6 criminal recklessness and misdemeanor dangerous possession of a firearm by a child.

One area woman is suing the zoo and two construction companies to say otherwise. In a February filing in Allen Superior Court, Pamela Fields claims that on Aug. 9, 2024, she took a spill in the area around the sea lions exhibit. The “trip and fall,” she said, resulted in permanent injuries.

Allen County, Ind. ---By all accounts, Jaskaran Singh had broken up with his girlfriend of a month when he shot her at his back door on Feb. 28 of last year. Singh, sitting at the Allen County Jail since then, always maintained he never intended to shoot Katiza Binti Mohamed-Sayad, a 25-year-old mother. This week, Singh was found not guilty on the murder charge brought by the state, but instead of found guilty of reckless homicide. Reckless homicide carries a much lower sente

Wednesday morning, Jake Venderley of Hunt Suedhoff Kearney, appeared in Judge Andrew Williams courtroom on behalf of his client, Mark Nei, former Redwood Inn owner, in a matter of a promissory note between Nei and the owners of Clean Cut Kid, current owners of the beloved restaurant. John Thomas Roseberry, Fort Wayne resident, and Aaron McCormick of Bluffton, partners in Clean Cut Kid, secured a loan for $310,000 from Nei in October 2022 and upped it by $100,000 the next m