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.

The freedom bell rang for a 17-year-old charged with murder the day before fireworks took over the city of Fort Wayne. A murder charge against Josiyah T. Derrick was dismissed July 3. He'd been charged with murder a few days after the June 23 homicide of Eriyn White, 20, of Fort Wayne

The turnaround on ballistics in Fort Wayne has reached a remarkable stage, worthy of a CSI episode on a major network. Shell casings 50 feet from Monday night’s teen homicide victim, Eriyn White, 20,  were traced to the gun of the accused shooter, Josiyah Derrick not even two days later. 

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. 

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.