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'He got jumped': bar fight at Piere's ends in fatal stabbing
"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.

Jamie Duffy
Dec 10, 20253 min read


Florida man, passing through, gets caught with 30 kilos of cocaine
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

Jamie Duffy
Nov 15, 20254 min read


Lawyers for Allen County jail suicide lawsuit meet in federal court
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

Jamie Duffy
Nov 13, 20255 min read


Perjury charge for 'gf' who denied putting money on his jail account
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

Jamie Duffy
Oct 24, 20252 min read


Inside the jail, CI was the target of a plot to kill, court docs say
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.

Jamie Duffy
Oct 22, 20253 min read


'Deadlock' at jail for suspect facing conspiracy to commit murder
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.

Jamie Duffy
Sep 19, 20253 min read


"Up to 1200 rounds per minute:" man faces yet another case, this one for machine gun possession
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.

Jamie Duffy
Sep 15, 20253 min read


Defendant shot up a home while child sat on the porch, cops say
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,...

Jamie Duffy
Sep 5, 20251 min read


A tortured mind, a suicide, now his name lives on in court
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

Jamie Duffy
Aug 14, 20253 min read


'Don't run up on me, bro:' fatal stabbing took only three seconds
It took three seconds to mortally stab the victim.
And a short time later to arrest Draylon Marquise Crutch

Jamie Duffy
Jul 25, 20252 min read


Massage parlor arrests update as FWPD patrols petty vice downtown
Last Friday, the Fort Wayne Police Department went out to clean up downtown Fort Wayne.
The operation from 4 p.m to 8 p.m. means it was still light outside when they arrested nine people, including some aging prostitutes whose mugshots will not be published here, their sorry lives already exposed in local media.

Jamie Duffy
Jul 24, 20254 min read
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