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Monday, Redena Hire caught a new criminal misdemeanor charge for conspiracy to commit murder no death, according to the Allen County Sheriff's Department website. The probable cause affidavit submitted by Officer S. Schmieman said a search of the basement "yielded five handguns and three long guns," with "several cans of different caliber ammunition." Although there weren't bags of meth and cocaine there, meth was found on a large white digital scale, the type of scale use

Apparently Tyler Alberding, 24, already up for some serious charges, is now facing a felony for possession of a machine gun. What gives? On Feb. 14 of this year, a couple of officers from the FWPD Gang Unit responded to a shooting reported just after mdnight. The victim had been taken to Parkview Randallia, only to be transported to Parkview Regional Hospital where more serious cases are usually treated.

Derrick Baker was looking for a little sympathy as he sat on the stand this week testifying in his own trial. An admitted crack cocaine addict, he told the jury of his peers - well, not really, but that’s what we say in America - that he thought the house he burgled was “abandoned.” His real goal was some peace and a source of water. “I wanted to enjoy my high without any disturbance,” he said.

Court documents obtained by The Probable Cause indicate that Dylan Kieres, one of two accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy, will serve three years in prison, if the judge agrees.

Early Sunday morning, it was a case of “greased lightning” out on I-69.  At no time of the day or night is it OK to endanger the public by racing your vehicle, but there they were. Two of the racers are now facing criminal misdemeanors for participating in a multi-car speed competition.

The victim said he was able to crawl out of the apartment and call 9-1-1. When police arrived, the four accused of the beating and robbery were inside the apartment, apparently unaware their victim had escaped.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. --When the gray 2010 Chevrolet Aveo pulled up and the woman in the passenger seat asked if “J---” and “B--ty” were home,...

Imagine what the neighbors think when a gun-wielding trio shows up yelling and kicking in the door just after 7 p.m. on an August night. Someone called police, a good thing, for sure, and the female victim’s home surveillance captured images of the three violent people who robbed her of $600 while her young children and boyfriend watched, court documents said.

It had to be more than a beef to set up a potential shoot-em-up at Wendy’s. Those grinding there Aug. 17 around 7:45 p.m. must be asking themselves why they work at a minimum wage job when five armed and masked young men can freely enter and start wreaking havoc.

It was just before noon. The two retirees, partners now for half a century, were taking care of emails and enjoying the beautiful day when the startling knock came at the door. “We’re here to take your marijuana plant,” the lead trooper told Burden who answered the door. Burden looked outside and took in three unmarked Indiana State Police vehicles - a black F-150 and two silver Dodge Chargers - as he tried to collect himself.

After a four day trial, an Allen County Jail convicted Sanders of murder - acting in concert, attempted murder for the wounding of the younger brother of the deceased BMG gang member, battery, and a Level 5 felony criminal gang activity. The homicide took place Sept. 12, 2023 at 1:50 a.m.

You have “two tough dogs squaring up and eventually they’re going to fight. They’re trying to be the biggest badass dog in town,” Deshaies said on the stand. In court testimony, Deshaies identified Sanders, now 20, as a member of the BSG, aka Big Swen Gang, named after a deceased member. 

Five of the six charged who - Douglas Zuber, Christopher Yoho aka Chris Woho, Ryan Minick, Jerrad Impton and Wert - are scheduled to appear Sept. 26 in front of Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull. Vard Warnock, the sixth defendant charged a week later after a misidentification, still has a hearing on Aug. 25, according to online court documents.

On Oct. 13, 2023, when he was found in a jail shower with the undershirt he used to hang himself around his neck, she couldn’t let it go. Ohlwine had been incarcerated on Sept. 12. Ohlwine filed a civil lawsuit on Aug. 5 in Allen Superior Court against the Allen County Jail, jail officials, the Fort Wayne Police Department, individual police officers and the jail’s medical provider, Quality Correctional Care, a Carmel-based private company, for negligence and wrongful deat

Today, four of the six men charged in the May 30 beating of a black man at Pike’s Pub in Waynedale appeared in court in front of Magistrate Samuel Keirns.

During the ensuing melée on Dec. 9, 2023, Gray, now 24, shot and killed Keelin Woods, 26. He stood trial this week in Allen Superior Court for murder, attempted murder and using a firearm in the commission of a crime. The jury, after about three hours of deliberation, found him not guilty. They agreed he acted in self defense. 

Two PODs involved in the construction still sit in the parking lot, a kind of funereal monument. That’s where Woods went down, according to court testimony and a probable cause affidavit written by detective Geraud Bartels.

In December, 2023, two groups of Servpro workers, one hired out of Louisville; the other, Chicago, squared off late one Saturday afternoon and had a heck of a brawl in the southeast parking lot of the Red Roof Inn on West Coliseum Boulevard, according to a probable cause affidavit written by homicide detective Geraud Bartels. It started over a remark a Chicago supervisor hurled at the guys from Louisville. They weren't getting their work done, he said. That was enough to p

Alec Hegge told investigators with the Hamilton County Metro ICAC Task Force that he “never hurt” a patient because there were too many safeguards in place. Hegge, 31, originally from Fort Wayne and a 2013 Snider High School graduate, was a registered behavior technician at Changing Lives Behavior Analysis Inc. in Anderson, according to a release posted July 24 on Facebook by the Fishers Police Department.

And there was security. But that night Cameron Starks, now 24, and two buddies knew security, who let them in with their weapons.  Shamon Little aka “Homer” was killed that night. Dr. Kent Harshbarger, a forensic pathologist said Little died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the probable cause.