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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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. 

Surveillance video from a nearby business showed proof it was a hit and run accident, that the Saturn was traveling east on McKinnie, ran a red light at Lafayette and struck the northbound Chevrolet Silverado, according to a probable cause affidavit penned by Sgt. Matt Wilson, assigned to the Fort Wayne Police Department’s homicide, but a former fatal traffic crash detective.

Flowers appealed to Keirns to place him in the JCAP program, an in-jail recovery program that has had success, but Keirns said the jail was full and basically, it was time for the state to pick up some of Flowers’ incarceration costs.

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.

Jamoni Burton, 19, who lived in the same apartment complex as his alleged victim, Kardenia Anthony Hollis, is now facing a virtual life sentence homicide. Thursday he was booked in to the Allen County Jail on a murder charge, according to the Allen County Sheriff's Department website.

Tuesday, the Allen County Coroner identified him. His name is Kardenia Anthony Hollis of Fort Wayne. He was 16 years old. “They called him Nunu,” Parker said. Teens have told him that Hollis was a student at Northup High School. Hollis was found early Saturday morning - around 3 am. - lying in front of the Woodbridge Apartments in the 1800 block of River Run.

No, according to a probable cause affidavit written by long-time Fort Wayne detective R.J. Sutphin, Perry Mitchell Miles refused to leave the home after he was viewed in the act of molesting two little girls.

The state says Haywood, 32, and Devonte Travier, almost 31, acted in concert that night and ambushed Golden’s minivan at the intersection of Winchester Road and the Airport Expressway, killing Daisha “Twink” Fitts in error and missing their target, Golden, altogether.

Royal Davis, Jr. took the stand on the last day of his trial and told his story, even though it would have been difficult to overcome a felony murder charge when you flat out admit you were there when the homicide occurred.  Friday, after the full four-day trial, Davis was found guilty of those charges and the gun enhancement that can add up to 20 years to a sentence. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 8.