INCIDENTS
City:
Friday, 3:20 p.m., West Miller Street resident reported being scammed out of $150 but managed to close her bank account before the scammer could get more. However, she did inadvertently give out her personal information.
Friday, 3:23 p.m., Capri Meadows apartments. Caller reported someone stole the catalytic converter from her vehicle.
Friday, 4:42 p.m., Bluffton Police Department, 204 E. Market St. Woman reported a battery.
Friday, 5:24 p.m., Outdoor Concepts, 2275 N. Main St. Burglar alarm. Officers responded. It was tripped by an employee.
Friday, 7:13 p.m., Hampshire Court apartments. Caller complaining of a non-handicapped tagged or plated truck parked in a handicap parking spot. Officer responded. Someone had painted the spot so that it appeared to not be a handicap spot.
Friday, 8:31 p.m., Lancaster Street at the KOA Campground entrance. Someone left behind a large orange tool bag with tools inside.
Saturday, 12:35 a.m., Main Street south of Spring Street. Two minors briefly detained after an officer pulled over their vehicle and noticed the inside of it smelled of marijuana. A search was conducted but no marijuana was found, but they were both cited for possessing an e-cigarette.
Saturday, 12:54 a.m., McDonald’s restaurant, 984 N. Main St. Report of someone in a white extended cab pickup truck spinning the truck in circles in the parking lot and ran up over the curb. The truck then sped away north on Main Street and west on Dustman Road.
Saturday, 1:04 a.m., apartment in the 400 block of West Wabash Street. Report of two men fist fighting. Officers responded. The fight had broken up and neither wanted to pursue the matter further.
Saturday, 9:54 a.m., 1500 block of West Central Avenue. Someone stole a riding mower from the residence.
Saturday, 11:13 a.m., Pine Grove apartments. Officer requested to assist in evicting two tenants from an apartment. Both were warned for criminal trespassing at the apartment complex.
Saturday, 11:38 a.m., Connecting Center, 116 S. Johnson St. Juvenile caller reported two girls tried to jump him. Both girls then went into the Wells County Public Library. There was reportedly a significant time lapse between the time the activity occurred and when the juvenile called to report the minor altercation.
Saturday, 10:17 p.m., residence in the 1400 block of McConnell Drive. Caller reported a man, whom the caller recognized, had just stolen a 10-speed bicycle from the residence. Officer responded. The man was located at Save-On Liquor at Spring and Main streets and arrested.
Sunday, 2:23 a.m., Praxis substance abuse treatment facility, 1529 W. Lancaster St. Former patient banging on the doors of the facility. Officer responded and took the man to the Airplane Express convenience store to be picked up by family or friends. He returned at 10:44 a.m. and again was removed by an officer who took him to America’s Best Value Inn.
Sunday, 4:51 a.m., Harvest Road. Bluffton police officer pulled over a vehicle and arrested the driver, Kevin Holman, age and address not listed, for operating a motor vehicle while never having been issued a driver’s license.
Ossian:
Thursday, 9:36 p.m., 500 block of South Jefferson Street. Ossian police officer pulled over a vehicle for not having a working license plate light and cited the driver, Andrea Willoughby, Fort Wayne, into Wells Superior Court for driving while suspended, a Class A infraction.
Friday, 3:34 p.m., TI Automotive, 1200 Baker Drive. A 25-year-old male employee suffered chest pain. Wells County EMS, Ossian Fire Department first responders and Wells County EMS dispatched.
Friday, 8:29 p.m., Jefferson Street north of 900N. Ossian police officer decided to perform a license plate check on a vehicle ahead of his patrol car and discovered that the registered owner, James Falk, age and address not listed, was driving while suspended. The officer cited him into Wells Superior Court for driving while suspended and operating a motor vehicle without insurance, both Class A infractions.
Saturday, 4:44 p.m., Ossian BP station, 506 S. Jefferson St. Someone driving a black Dodge pickup truck with the word “wicked” emblazoned on the tailgate fled the business without paying for $50 in gas.
Saturday, 10:20 p.m., while patrolling North Jefferson Street, an Ossian police officer spotted an oncoming vehicle with only one working headlight and pulled it over in the parking lot of the Ossian All American Deli. Kedreionna Humphrey, Fort Wayne, reportedly had four active suspensions against her driver’s license and was cited by the officer into Wells Superior Court for driving while suspended with a prior conviction for the same offense, a Class A misdemeanor.
ACCIDENTS
City:
Saturday, 5:28 p.m., Williams Street at Washington Street. Virginia A. Croy, 80, Bluffton, was driving north on Williams Street when she entered to the intersection in a 2016 Ford Fusion and collided with an eastbound 2005 Dodge Dakota driven by John C. Osmun, 58, Fort Wayne. Damage exceeded $5,000. Wells County EMS and Bluffton Fire Rescue were dispatched to the scene, but no one was transported to the hospital.
FIRES
Saturday, 10 a.m., Wells County 4-H Park, 1240 4-H Road. Bluffton Fire Department dispatched to set up a landing zone for Lutheran Air for a patient transfer from Bluffton Regional Medical Center to Lutheran Hospital.
Monday, 1:08 p.m., 3476S-County Home Road residence of Stephen Sturgeon. Heat lamp ignited a small goat shed. Bluffton Fire Department dispatched and Liberty Township and Poneto fire departments dispatched for backup. Fire quickly doused. No goats harmed.
Monday, 3:09 p.m., 20/20, 785 Decker Dr. Fire alarm. Bluffton Fire Department dispatched. No fire. Alarm company workers accidentally triggered the alarm while working on it.
