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-It was another evening at Uncle Laron’s. The boys - Jayden Cosme and Jaylen Murray - were in the middle of a game of spades when Uncle accused the two 18-year-olds of cheating. One thing is for sure. That evening of May 30, 2025, there was a physical altercation and amidst the drunkenness and (alleged) drug use of the 59-year-old victim, Laron Rosse, there were guns.

She was accused of trafficking in stupéfiants, in this case four kilos of cannabis (marijuana) found in her apartment. Marijuana is still illegal in France although it’s probably as common as a good red wine. Detectives found a large quantity of tabac or tobacco in the apartment so as to be contraband.  However, the worst and what the judge found “outrancier” was the fate of her two year old child who happened to pick up a small packet of cannabis and ingest it. The inc

Conjecture and gossip lead the discussion on why young teens, Essix Robinson and his brother, Zy Rel, were in a vacant home on Bowser Avenue on Aug. 23 of last year. The ‘bando,’ as abandoned homes are called, and identified by the boys’ grandmother as 4423 Bowser Ave.,was the scene of a shooting between Essix, then 14, and Jorge Mendez-Cornejo. The shooting left Mendez-Cornejo wounded, according to a news release from the Fort Wayne Police Department.

ssix Robinson is only 15 years old, yet shares the burden of his family on his slim shoulders. He thought he’d found a safe place at an abandoned home in the 4400 block of Bowser Avenue. On Jan. 5, Essix was waived into adult court by Judge Brent Ecenbarger, the county’s juvenile judge.

Shawn Williams, 48, is on trial this week, charged as an accomplice, acting in concert with Chad Kinney, 49, in the fatal shooting of 39-year-old Philip Rhinehart, a known drug user whose friends were birds of a feather. Chad Kinney isn’t on trial yet, but his name this week has become infamous as the shooter.

A deadly game of ding dong doorbell occurred that Christmas night around 6 p.m. when, it is alleged, Shawn Williams, 48, the defendant in this week’s murder trial in Allen Superior Court, and his partner, Chad Kinney, 47, lured Rhinehart to his front door.

Chavez Gustin will spend close to the rest of his life in prison, having taken a guilty plea for the murder of Roger Swedzinski. The 22-year-old didn’t know Swedzinski, 67, a widower who lived alone on 17 acres in northwest Allen County. But he scoped out Swedzinski after he saw the older man’s post on Facebook Marketplace advertising 10 2006 1/10oz. American Eagle gold coins for sale, according to the probable cause affidavit written by Allen County Det./Cpl. Gabe Furn

Michael Barker, a kid from the neighborhood who was best pals with now convicted murderer Anthony Lopez, might not have known what his friend was going to do when he walked into the woods with victim William Kintzel. But chances are he did that evening around 7 p.m. on April 10, 2022.

What he heard was the shooting death of Kintzel after he’d been subdued by blunt force, something revealed in the October 2022 trial of Lopez who was convicted and sentenced to 67 years for murder plus another 20 years for using a gun to commit the crime. Kintzel’s body was discovered four days later when a teenager, now 20, took the stand Tuesday to say he was 17 when he and a friend were walking through the woods around 7 p.m. and stumbled upon the dead man.

"He got jumped,” was the explanation for the fatal Piere's stabbing the day after Thanksgiving. “Read between the lines.” Immanuel “Manny” Ryshawn Walker, 27, was taken into custody in the 2600 block of Painted Desert Run by the Fort Wayne Police Department’s Homicide Task Force Dec. 6, about a week after two people were stabbed at the club, in the 5600 block of St. Joe Road, an FWPD news release said.

Sunday afternoon two young people took their bad energy to Traveler’s Inn, their black hoodies pulled up so as to obscure their faces from cameras lurking everywhere. The ruse didn’t work, according to a probable cause affidavit written by homicide detective Scott Wilson.

Jalan Carpenter was found guilty of murder in Allen Superior Court Thursday after a three day trial. The jury believed that Carpenter, now 22, waited for John Peterson, 19, a signed basketball player for Manchester University, in the area of Vance and Reed on March 26, 2021 and ambushed Peterson at 10:28 p.m. that night.

Carpenter wasn’t charged with murder until exactly a year ago when prosecutors were able to put together missing pieces of the puzzle. An incarcerated witness came forward to report that he had played dice with some people who talked about the murder and were responsible for it. 

Flash a Rolex watch and you’ve got status. At least in the material sense, Rolex, along with Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and others, cater to the nouveau riche dreams embedded in our modern culture. With that in mind, who knows what was going through the mind of Kevin Lee Evanoff who is accused of purchasing three Rolex watches from Peter Franklin Jewelers on Dupont Road with a fake credit card?

The cocaine was hidden in a large metal dog box with fresh welds on the inside. The rear portion had a void big enough to hide 30 individually wrapped bricks. Each brick was approximately a kilo of cocaine which means a total of 30,000 grams of the “rich man’s drug.” One kilo weighs 1,000 grams.  According to the website recovered.org, a single gram of cocaine typically costs $120 and an 8-ball (3.5g of cocaine) is priced at around $300. Jordon Lanier from Ocklawaha, Flor

Another aspect of the suit is liability during incarceration. If the suit goes to trial, a jury must decide if jail officials did not notify the medical provider QCC of Ohlwine’s dire need of medical attention or was it QCC who was lax in its treatment efforts. “We believe he was being treated,” Olinger said in court. “We don’t believe he was being treated properly.” Ohlwine had a “long history of being in jail and a long history of his mental health issues were known at the

This week, Douglas Mieras, 64, was charged with Felony 4 child solicitation. (A Felony 4 carries a sentence of between two and 12 years.) The probable cause against Mieras details text messages from Mieras to his victims that are so disturbing, the exact messages will not be published by The Probable Cause.

Breshawn Smith, 29, was found guilty as charged Friday of the Nov. 16, 2024 Showgirl 1 shooting, a rampage that took the life of 26-year-old Marialuz Margarita Munoz and wounded two men, Taurean Hayden and Benjamin Crance. His charges were murder, two counts of attempted murder and criminal recklessness. Allen County prosecutors said Smith returned to the club at 3:11 a.m. with a friend, William Tolbert, driving the black Chevy Equinox that belonged to Smith's “baby mama.”

It was the prelude to a night of “carnage,” Chief Deputy Prosecutor Tom Chaille said Tuesday in his opening arguments in Allen Superior Court. On his return to the club, Smith is accused of firing a rifle at an innocent crowd standing outside the club just after closing, shooting to death Marialuz Margarita Munoz, 26, and wounding Taurean Hayden, a Green associate who is now deceased, and a Michigan man named Benjamin Crance. Smith is charged with murder, two counts of at

Breshawn Smith is on trial this week, charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder and criminal recklessness.  The shooting occurred as people stood outside the club that was closing. Smith “left carnage,” Chaille said. “It’s a miracle more people weren’t killed that night.”