INCIDENTS
City:
Monday, 4:01 p.m., First Bank of Berne, 404 N. Main St. Report of a suspicious man pacing back and forth in front of the entrance to the bank. Officer responded and located the man who apparently was frightened by the spread of COVID-19 to the point that he was unwilling to enter the bank until more people had left.
Monday, 8:51 p.m., Wabash Village apartments, 401 E. State St. Caller reported seeing a suspicious flashing red light on the building across the street. Officer responded and located the source of the light as a reflection off a metal box. The flashing lights from an ambulance at the nearby Lilac Lane apartment complex was reflecting off the box.
Tuesday, 2:52 a.m., PNC Bank, 304 W. Market St. Caller reported seeing people inside the bank and thought it was suspicious. Officer checked. It was a cleaning crew.
Tuesday, 4:12 a.m., Main Street at Water Street. Officer pulled over a vehicle containing four juveniles, none of whom had a license to drive and all of whom were out after curfew. The four were detained at the police department until parents could arrive to pick them up.
Tuesday, 7:10 a.m., Fresenius Medical, 1100 S. Main St. Man walked into Fresenius, which is inside the former Wells Community Hospital. The man then walked into the part of the building that is not occupied and promptly started to trash the interior of the building. Officers and sheriff’s deputies dispatched. The man was located. Derek Todd Liebo, 21, Bluffton, reportedly was not very cooperative but did not resist arrest. He was charged with arson, a Level 4 felony, and criminal mischief, a Class B misdemeanor. Reportedly the man spoke about seeing only the color red and that “the shadows were attacking him.”
He had reportedly thrown an electric drill through a window pane, had broken other glass and wood inside the building, had attempted to set fire to two separate areas of the building. In a medical supplies storage area, he had reportedly piled up papers and attempted to set them on fire.
Tuesday, 11:32 a.m., residence in the 200 block of West Cherry Street. Woman reported finding a knife discarded in her yard.
Tuesday, 11:56 a.m., Main Street bridge over the Wabash River. Someone dumped a bicycle under the bridge.
County:
Monday, 12:40 p.m., residence on Ind. 116 northwest of 300W. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a verbal altercation between three adult siblings at the residence. Situation calmed. Parties separated.
Tuesday, 9:05 a.m., 1100N at the Norfolk Southern Railway crossing. Report of two females in hooded sweatshirts walking on the tracks carrying a blanket between them. State excise officer was close by and checked the tracks but the females were gone.
ARRESTS
Shawnta Marie Turner, 29, Ossian; three counts of theft, all Class A misdemeanors, and revocation of bail from a previous case. Bond set at $4,500 on the theft charges.
