INCIDENTS
City:
Monday, 2:58 p.m., apartment at 108 S. Johnson St. Officers requested to assist Department of Child Services with a belligerent client.
Tuesday, 8:33 a.m., MidWest America Federal Credit Union, 1840 N. Main St. Holdup alarm. Officers responded. Alarm accidentally tripped.
Tuesday, 11:08 a.m., residence in the 400 block of East Wiley Avenue. Report of a man breaking into the residence. Officers responded and warned the man for criminal trespassing.
Tuesday, 12:24 p.m., residence in the 1100 block of Kenwood Drive. Caller reported discovering someone had fraudulently opened a credit card account in her name.
County:
Tuesday, 3:26 p.m., Bethlehem Lutheran Church and School, 6514E-750N. Report of a suspicious man walking near the school and entered a corn field. Sheriff’s deputies responded and located the man who said he was depressed about his mother dying. He declined transport to Parkview Behavioral Health and said he would ride his moped there instead.
Tuesday, 6:15 p.m., 200S near Meridian Road at the site of the new county highway garage construction. Report of someone in a red Jeep Chrokee “off-roading” on the construction site as witnessed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy. Reportedly when the Cherokee exited the site, it nearly hit the deputy’s personal vehicle, forcing the deputy to swerve off the road to avoid a crash. The deputy followed the vehicle and reportedly witnessed it driving in the wrong lane, nearly hit another vehicle, drive off the road through the yard of a residence, and speed up to 90 mph — in an apparent attempt to put some distance between the Cherokee and the deputy. The Cherokee pulled into a driveway on Silver Street just east of Clark Avenue. The off-duty deputy — now joined by two on-duty sheriff’s deputies and Bluffton police officers — blocked off the driveway and ordered the occupants of the vehicle out at gunpoint. By this time the male and female occupants of the vehicle had reportedly switched places with the female exiting the Cherokee from the driver’s side. The man, later identified as Carter Andrew Rose Jackson, 21, Bluffton, claimed that he was “drunk” but had not been driving the vehicle. He claimed the woman had been driving the vehicle and said she wanted to go off-roading. The woman at first insisted she had been the driver but upon learning she could be subject to arrest, later denied that she had been driving the vehicle. The off-duty deputy told Jackson that he had seen him driving the mud-covered Cherokee. Jackson failed field sobriety tests and blew a .152 percent alcohol concentration equivalency on a Breathalyzer test. He was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a Class A misdemeanor; criminal mischief, a Class B misdemeanor; reckless driving, a Class C misdemeanor; driving while suspended, a Class A infraction; and failure to stop at a stop sign, a Class C infraction. Bond was set at $3,000. Reportedly the off-roading had damaged the construction site.
Tuesday, 1:48 a.m., mobile home in the Silo Farms mobile home park. Burglar alarm. Deputies responded. No sign of foul play found.
Tuesday, 3:04 a.m., mobile home in the Stoneybrook mobile home park in Zanesville. Report of an altercation between a mother and daughter. Sheriff’s deputies, and officers from Markle and Ossian responded. Megan Raelyn Heinze, 26, who lives in the mobile home where officers responded, was charged domestic battery, a Class A misdemeanor, and intimidation of a law enforcement officer, a Level 6 felony. Bond was set at $30,000.
Tuesday, 10:43 a.m., Keystone post office, 100016S-200W. Someone cracked the glass in the door to the building.
FIRE RUNS
Tuesday, 7:22 a.m., 1018 W. Wabash St. residence of Christopher and Kendra Hensley. Smoke detector alarm. Bluffton Fire Department dispatched. A faulty candle warmer inside the residence triggered the alarm.
