INCIDENTS
City:
Monday, 5:03 p.m., residence in the 700 block of Clark Avenue. Caller reported a Nintendo Switch video gaming system that was owned by Rent-A-Center was stolen from his residence.
Monday, 7:08 p.m., Ind. 124 East in front of Bluffton Woods mobile home park. Man walking in traffic in all dark clothing. Officer checked the area, but whoever it was gone.
Monday, 11:20 p.m., residence in the 400 block of Wiley Avenue. Officer requested to remove an unwanted man from the residence.
County:
Monday, 2:41 p.m., 2 by 4 slab of oriented strand board in the road. Deputy checked the area, but someone had picked up the board.
ACCIDENTS
City:
Monday, 3:33 p.m., Lancaster Central Elementary School, 275 E. Jackson St. Tamara I. Laisure, 46, Bluffton, was driving a 2013 Dodge Dart. Shelby J. Burkley, 61, Bluffton, was driving a 2009 Chevrolet Impala. Brandon M. Gill, 41, rural Markle, was driving a 2017 GMC Sierra pickup truck. All three were in the child pickup line at the school at the end of the school day. Laisure’s foot slipped off the brake of her Dart, causing it to move forward into the back side of Burkley’s Impala, propelling it forward into the back of Gill’s Sierra. Damage exceeded $1,000.
Monday, 7:02 p.m., Main Street at Dustman Road. Jennifer M. Flick, 39, Bluffton, was stopped at the intersection in a 2012 Dodge Journey. She was hit from behind by a 2004 Buick LeSabre driven by Marilyn J. Gerber, 84, Bluffton.
Tuesday, midnight, WEG employee parking lot, 400 E. Spring St. Denice A. Russell, 61, Fort Wayne, drove a 2016 Jeep from a parking space, turned too sharply and scraped a parked 2004 Pontiac Grand Am registered to Balina Prater, address not listed. Damage exceeded $2,500.
County:
Tuesday, 7:45 a.m., 100W north of 1000N. Jocelynn Jackson, 17, Zanesville, hit a deer with her 2014 Ford Fusion. Damage to the car exceeded $1,000.
ARRESTS
Chelsea Kay Patton, 32, Uniondale; probation violation. No bond set.
Isaac Matthew West 30, Bluffton; probation violation. No bond set.
TICKETS
Thomas L. Steffen, 56, rural Bluffton; 46 mph-35 zone, Lancaster Street at Meadow Lane.
Keith P. Golonka, 53, Clarksville, Tenn.; driving left of center, 200S east of 100W.
Jessica R. Heller, 28, rural Bluffton; 87 mph-55 zone, Ind. 218 west of 700E.
Emily A. Beucler, 34, rural Craigville; distracted driving, Main Street at Capri Court.
Stephanie N. White, 38, rural Bluffton; 62 mph-55 zone, Ind. 218 west of 200E.
John T. Thompson, 47, rural Hartford City; 62 mph-55 zone, Ind. 218 west of 200E.
Billy R. Miller, 27, Elkmont, Ala.; disregarding an automatic signal causing a traffic crash that injured a person, U.S. 224 at Ind. 1.
Gary C. Greeno, 58, Fort Wayne; disregarding a traffic control device, Ind. 1 at 850N.
