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Of course, they knew their victim was 14.  And from all accounts in probable cause affidavits submitted for the two men, they were practiced in this type of predatory sexual activity. 

So why did Dylan Kieres, 33, turn up at police headquarters on May 21 to turn himself in as one of two men who sexually molested and filmed their encounters with a 14-year-old boy? The net was closing in, according to a source close to the criminal investigation. 

The 3-year relationship between Jeffery Harris and Kanikia Coleman had barely ended, however, when Harris turned up at her home one night in January 2022 and apparently went haywire.

But when Damontre Burnett pulled out a gun in a church parking lot on West Rudisill Boulevard after Kaedan Mowery handed over the money, Mowery shot and killed Burnett, according to a probable cause submitted by homicide detective Ben MacDonald.

t was a night of extreme fear for the couple as they watched their upstairs neighbor come at them with two samurai swords.

Vard Warnock, the sixth suspect in a May 30 bar beating at Pike's Pub in Waynedale, doesn't have long before the Allen County Sheriff's Department warrants officers are at his door.

Who knows what he told her or even what age she thought Reid J. Cowan was when she agreed to send him nude photos of herself, some as she performed sexual acts on herself, according to a probable cause affidavir submitted by Det. Jacob Quick of the Indiana State Police.

The men, all wearing jackets or T-shirts identifying them as members of The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, were seen beating James Simmons in an amateur video posted online. It caught fire on social media, locally and nationally.

A mistrial was declared in Allen Superior Court Thursday morning (June 12) due to jury misconduct, according to the defense attorney.

He was already in trouble when he fled from police and wrecked his white Cadillac sedan at North Clinton and Wallen Road Monday around 1:30 p.m. Now Tyler Alberding, Jr. is in more trouble. He is accused of causing a crash that killed a woman and left a man driving a red pick up truck with numerous injuries. 

Stewart said the night of the homicide, he’d stayed with a friend and didn’t leave until the morning of June 1, offering an alibi. Gigli confronted Stewart with a report that an individual had threatened to kill Stewart “because he killed granny.”

How desperate was the woman who offered anal sex for $40 on June 3 to an undercover officer while she was sitting in an alley running east to west north of East Washington Boulevard?

Bryan Eugene Gramling, 57, of Woodburn, apparently didn’t see anything wrong with collecting “thousands of photos of child pornography” and having online conversations with girls he thought were nine or 12.

This time around, at a second trial, hope turned to disappointment. Thursday, a jury found Allen guilty on two counts: child neglect resulting in death and aggravated battery. Both are Level 1 felonies meaning considerable prison time. On each count, he could be sentenced between 20 to 40 years.

Mayor Sharon Tucker awarded the proclamation on the same day McAlexander received the highest award from the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council.

So when Garland White came home around 11 am. after "being gone most of the night," it wasn't a warm homecoming with biscuits and gravy.

Allen, 35, is accused of delivering a blow so hard to his 17-month-old daughter’s abdomen that her mesentery was “shredded,” Wagner said. She died early on Feb. 25, 2021.

Allen was charged in March 2021 with neglect of a child resulting in death and aggravated battery, both Level 1 felonies that carry potential prison sentences of between 20 and 40 years.

On June 2, detectives and the Fort Wayne Police Department’s Emergency Services Team or SWAT arrived at Harris’s home with a search warrant. According to police, Harris was dealiong out of his residence.

Somehow a 73-year-old man who lives in low income, senior apartments in downtown Fort Wayne copped three charges for money laundering, along with eight more counts for drug dealing and felony firearm and drug possession.