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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cause against Mieras details text messages from Mieras to his victims that are so disturbing, the exact messages will not be published by The Probable Cause.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.”

Ford, 38, one of two charged in the shooting deaths of Tornor Doby, 29, and Anisha Jackson, 38, was found not guilty of felony murder and attempted burglary after a three-day trial in Allen Superior Court, Judge David Zent presiding. The jury hung on the murder charge, not able to make a decision on the question of self defense.

The county issued a warrant this week for Nalashia Palmer,  claiming  she lied on April 11 during a deposition with the Allen County Prosecutor’s office, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Allen County Detective, J. Bleeke. Palmer was asked “if she placed any money on the jail account of Brian Easterly since he was arrested in these cases,” and Palmer said “No.” However, jail call records indicate that Palmer spoke to Easterly 2,505 times between September

Wednesday, The Probable Cause was able to obtain the documents detailing a plot to kill a confidential informant that the alleged drug dealer Jason Bridges, 45, wanted gone. The first way was to plant a “hot shot,” an extremely potent fentanyl drug mix of a “G” or gram(s), hoping that the fentanyl would kill the confidential informant (CI), but the death would look like a drug overdose, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Officer S. Schmieman.

Years from now, Jonathon Mattix will still be telling his story in prison, possibly convincing himself if he hasn’t already, that he shot his gun in self defense. No kidding, he’ll tell them. A 54-year-old woman who lived in the woods between Wayne Haven Street and the river, just a short bike ride from his mother’s mobile home on Moeller Road, grabbed his .38 special and turned it on him.

But Tuesday, the first day of a murder trial for Jonathon Mattix, Dawn Kovach's sometimes estranged family came for one of their own.   “She was missing her eyes and her left cheek was sunken in,” wrote Allen County Deputy Coroner Investigator Jeffrey McCracken in a probable cause affidavit submitted two days after she was found. As a medicolegal death investigator, he also identified three holes in her lower neck area.

Louisa Young is still waiting to hear from the Indiana Department of Correction concerning her son’s death. Damarcus Thomas turned 25 on his deathbed, so to speak.

A mother is grieving here after her son died at Pendleton Correctional Facility without explanation. Damarcus Thomas, who would have been 25 Oct. 19, was sent to St. James Ascension Hospital Sept. 28 and put on a ventilator.

The alleged trafficker told the victim’s mother he needed help cleaning an office. Instead, the Victor Ruiz told the 13-year-old victim that “they” were going to give massages to men in exchange for money and that the men would be “naked,” according to a probable cause affidavit submitted by Officer S. Schmieman.

This week, Williams faced a jury for the second murder he’s accused of committing, that of Vanessa Brabson, 34 at the time of her death. He was found guilty of murder and drug dealing after the jury spent about seven hours deliberating the case. 

Saturday, just after midnight, Officer C. Stuttle pulled over Jalen M. Downs, 23, of Fort Wayne at South Clinton and Wiebke streets, right there at South Side High School, as he sat “running stationary radar” in an unmarked police vehicle. Downs was doing 80 miles an hour in a 35 mph zone, according to the probable cause affidavit Stuttle submitted. Stuttle pointed out Downs’ speed was 45 miles over the speed limit.

They stood in a row like obedient schoolboys, shoulder to shoulder, softly and deferentially repeating phrases like “yes, ma’am,” and “yes, your Honor.” The men known as the Pike’s Pub Six were in court Friday in front of Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull to find out whether or not they would face a jury together in what is known as a joinder trial for the beating of James Simmons on May 30 at Pike’s Pub in Waynedale.

Maybe because of memories of a lost romance or loneliness, or because of fear or coercion, or maybe the awkward hope of a diamond ring, Priya Whitt kept her silence for years. “Don’t say nothing,” she was told and Reginald Gant and Gregory Robinson expected her to keep her mouth shut.

Racing your car down Clinton Street at 3 a.m. is never a good idea. Running a red light and plowing into a squad car makes that decision even worse. But that’s what happened in March 2023 when Quayawn Eldridge, now 26, had just left a bar, according to his own story, and “did not want the vehicle he was racing to overtake him.”

Jason Bridges , 45, facing umpteen charges for dealing drugs of just about any kind drug you can think of- fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms  - Wednesday was placed in “deadlock” at the Allen County Jail, according to online court documents.