INCIDENTS
City:
Friday, 5:25 p.m., Dollar General, 123 W. Market St. Two juveniles caught stealing from the store. Officer dispatched. Information taken for a report.
Friday, 5:45 p.m., Praxis substance abuse treatment facility, 1529 W. Lancaster St. Male patient threatening staff with a fork. Officers responded. Ramsay Royal Brewer, 37, listed as homeless, was charged with intimidation, a Level 6 felony. Bond set at $5,000.
Friday, 8:53 p.m., residence in the 700 block of North Main Street. Report of a trespassing dog.
Friday, 10:05 p.m., residence in the 300 block of West South Street. Caller reported a verbal altercation between his mother and a friend of the caller’s. Officers responded. Situation calmed.
Saturday, 8:49 p.m., Dollar General, 1311 S. Main St. Officer requested to issue trespass warning to two individuals.
Saturday, 10:20 a.m., 24/7 Cars, 633 N. Main St. Burglar alarm. Officers responded. Alarm accidentally tripped.
Saturday, 12:33 p.m., Pine Grove Apartments. Caller reported someone vandalized her car by writing “vulgarities” on it. On Monday at 1 p.m., the same caller reported someone had smeared dog “poop” all over her vehicle.
Saturday, 4 p.m., residence in the 900 block of Westfield Drive, Bluffton Woods mobile home park. Verbal altercation between a man and a woman. Officers responded. Situation calmed. Both parties warned for disorderly conduct.
Saturday, 6:30 p.m., Flagstar Bank, 101 S. Main St. Power line down behind building. Bluffton Utilities contacted.
Saturday, 10:20 p.m., residence in the 400 block of West Wabash Street. Loud verbal altercation between a man and a woman and the man, wearing a Batman shirt, was allegedly breaking things. Officers responded. Situation calmed. Man warned for disorderly conduct.
Sunday, 12:50 a.m., residence in the 100 block of North Oak Street Extended. Report of a Black male missing teeth staring in the windows of the residence. Officers respond but no one matching the description was found around the residence.
Sunday, 3:48 a.m., residence in the 700 block of Kathryn Drive, Maple Grove Estates mobile home park. Report of loud music. Officer responded and discovered that the source of the loud music was an unoccupied car. The driver’s side door was unlocked so he opened it and turned down the music.
Sunday, 10:42 a.m., 200 block of Columbian Avenue. Report of a patient who had wandered away from the nearby Praxis substance abuse treatment facility requesting assistance. The man wanted to get a ride home. He then started to complain of neck pain. Wells County EMS was dispatched to the scene. He eventually agreed to return to the treatment facility.
Sunday, 12:04 p.m., residence in the 700 block of West South Street. Caller reported there was an 11-year-old boy at her house who had been battered. Officer dispatched.
Sunday, 1:18 p.m., Bluffton Wesleyan Chapel, 1309 W. Washington St. Burglar alarm. Officers dispatched. Alarm accidentally tripped.
Sunday, 4:18 p.m., Creekside RV campground, 3427E-Ind. 124. One of the recreational vehicles broken into. Nothing apparently stolen.
Sunday, 5:02 p.m., Roush Park. Group of juveniles fighting at the park. Officers responded. Two male juveniles detained and information taken for a report.
Sunday, 9:08 p.m., Main Street at Wiley Avenue. Officer pulled over a vehicle and arrested the driver, Paige Lyndy Sills, 24, listed as homeless, on one count of driving while suspended with a prior conviction for the same offense, a Class A misdemeanor. Released on her own recognizance.
Monday, 2:38 a.m., Airplane Express service station, 407 N. Main St. Report that a man who had previously been seen outside of the store slumped over the steering wheel of a vehicle was now inside the store and had been in the restroom for more than 20 minutes. Officers and sheriff’s deputies responded. The man was warned for criminal trespassing at the store.
County:
Friday, 12:53 p.m., Ted Habegger contacted the sheriff’s department and reported that one of his employees forgot to lift a tillage implement when exiting a field and entering the road and inadvertently tore up about 20 feet of the road, mainly in the southernmost lane of travel. Wells County Highway Department was advised of the damage.
Friday, 7:52 p.m., residence on South Main Street in Liberty Center. Report of a loud verbal altercation between neighbors over the location of the property line between them. Sheriff’s deputies responded. Situation calmed. Parties separated. Surveyor was to be contacted to determine where the actual property line is.
Saturday, 9:32 p.m., residence on Ind. 1 south of the Allen County line. Caller reported she noticed a light on in her barn that shouldn’t be n and then saw a car speed out of her driveway. Sheriff’s deputies responded, checked the barn, found no one inside and nothing missing.
Monday, 10:37 a.m., residence on 600W south of 900S, northwest of Montpelier. Caller reported someone had broken into the cap of his pickup truck bed.
Ossian:
Saturday, 10:45 a.m., Ind. 1 at 350N. While southbound on Dehner Drive near Davis Road, an Ossian police officer decided to perform a license plate check on a Ford Explorer traveling in front of him and discovered that the registered owner, Trisha Money, Fort Wayne, had a driver’s license that was suspended until 2024. The officer pulled the vehicle over on Ind. 1 at 350N. She was cited by the officer for driving while suspended, a Class A infraction, and operating a motor vehicle without insurance.
Saturday, 1:32 p.m., Ind. 1 at 1100N. While off duty and traveling south on Ind. 1 from Yoder Road, an Ossian police officer observed a vehicle ahead of her that appeared to be having difficulty staying within its lane. The vehicle reportedly made a wide turn at Davis Road on the north side of Ossian and then another wide turn into the parking lot of the Ossian Health & Rehabilitation. The officer watched as a man exited the vehicle and entered the facility. The man, identified as Fernando Jose Heredia, 48, listed as homeless, advised he was visiting his parents at the facility. He reportedly appeared to be intoxicated, smelled of alcohol, failed field sobriety tests, and blew a .252 percent alcohol concentration equivalency on a Breathalyzer test, which is more than three times Indiana’s legal limit for intoxication of .08 percent. He was charged with two counts of operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, both Class A misdemeanors. Bond was set at $1,500.
ACCIDENTS
City:
Saturday, 3:30 a.m., Main Street south of 300N. Angi A. Dahma, 24, Bluffton, was driving south on Ind. 1 in a 2021 Chevrolet Equinox when she looked down away from the road. When she returned her eyes to the road, the Equinox was already off the road and continuing southbound where it slammed into a Bluffton Utilities electric pole. Wells County EMS and Bluffton Fire Rescue were dispatched to the scene. Dahma suffered minor injuries but she declined transport to the hospital. Damage exceeded $25,000.
Sunday, 3:13 p.m., Silver Street at Reid Street. Trina Hamrick, 45, Bluffton, made a right hand turn from Reid Street to head east on Silver Street. Her 2006 Kia Rio reportedly sideswiped a westbound 2010 Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by Robert J. Donahoe, 51, Bluffton. Hamrick claimed that Donahoe was in her lane of travel. Donahoe claimed that when Hamrick made her turn, she swung out into his lane of travel. Damage exceeded $1,000.
County:
Friday, 4:28 p.m., 200W at 800S. Steven W. Bausch, 66, Anderson, was driving a 2019 Freightliner Cascadia north on 200W when he attempted an eastbound turn onto 800S. The trailer he was pulling dropped off the edge of the road during the turn and the semi tipped onto its side, causing the tanker to develop a small puncture and spill milk. Liberty Township Fire Rescue was dispatched to the scene along with Wells County EMS and the Bluffton Fire Department Hazardous Materials response team. Wells County Emergency Management was also contacted. Bausch was checked out by medics, but declined transport to the hospital. Total damage exceeded $25,000.
Saturday, 11:11 p.m., 300W near Ind. 124. Curt A. Gilbert, 43, rural Poneto, hit a deer with his 2016 Ford Taurus. Damage to the car exceeded $10,000.
Sunday, 11:20 a.m., Stoneybrook mobile home court, Zanesville. Report of a loud verbal altercation between a man and a woman at the residence. Deputies and Ossian police responded. The male half of the argument, identified as Barry Blain, 56, Hudson, was arrested on a warrant out of Steuben County for failure to return to lawful detention, a Level 6 felony.
Sunday, 1:19 p.m., residence on Main Street in Petroleum. Caller reported that she discovered someone had placed a dead cat inside a house she is in the process of remodeling. Nothing else was found disturbed.
FIRES
Friday, 8:05 p.m., 5569W-Ind. 218. Liberty Township Fire Department paged for a rekindle of a house fire earlier in the day. When firefighters arrived, they discovered a small fire in the debris that remained from the two-story house and noted that it did not pose any hazard to the structures around it. Firefighters were again paged out after passersby reported smoke and some flames from the rubble at 8:22 p.m. Sunday and 4:11 a.m. Monday
Saturday, 9:54 a.m., Wabash Village apartments, 401 E. State St. Fire alarm. Bluffton Fire Department dispatched. No fire.
Saturday, 12:29 p.m., Mary L. Baumgartner, 1520 Treyburn Court. Carbon monoxide detector alarm sounding in the residence. Bluffton Fire Department dispatched. No carbon monoxide detected by firefighters. Batteries replaced in the detector with the alarm sounding.
Sunday, 8:24 a.m., James and Irene Green residence, 321 W. Spring St. Smell of natural gas inside the garage. Bluffton Fire Department dispatched but the only areas where gas was detected were around the clothes dryer vent — very minor readings that then went away — and just to the left of the outside gas meter. Northern Indiana Public Service Company contacted to make the scene.
TICKETS
Shondria N. Rangel, 44, Bluffton; no valid driver’s license in her possession, Main Street at Wabash Street.
Sara Moeller, Bluffton; animals running at large, 1413 W. South St.
Vanessa Eskridge, Bluffton; animals running at large, 1414 W. South St.
