INCIDENTS
City:
Friday, 4:11 p.m., Bluffton Regional Medical Center, 303 S. Main St. Report of a man who had been in the emergency room was now lying in the middle of Cherry Street just outside of the emergency room doors. Bluffton police responded. Mark Anthony Holbrook, 61, Indianapolis, charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication, both Class B misdemeanors. Bond set at $2,000.
Friday, 5:10 p.m., Main and Spring streets. Report that a man had fallen off his bicycle in the roadway, two men had dragged him out of the street, and he was now sitting on the corner. A Bluffton police officer spotted a man later identified as Stephen R. Steinhausen Jr., 48, Bluffton, standing in a grassy area next to the intersection. A Breathalyzer test reportedly showed Steinhausen’s alcohol concentration equivalency to be .143 percent, or nearly twice Indiana’s legal limit for intoxication of .08 percent. Steinhausen was charged with public intoxication, a Class B misdemeanor. Bond was set at $1,000.
Friday, 8:16 p.m., McConnell Drive at Clark Avenue. Report of six or seven juveniles throwing rocks at passing cars.
Friday, 8:22 p.m., Hoosier Highway on the far southwest side of Bluffton. Juveniles throwing water balloons at passing cars. Officer spoke with the father of the youth who said he would take care of the situation.
Friday, 10:20 p.m., 1700 block of North Main Street. Report of people in a vehicle having a loud verbal altercation. Officers responded. Information taken for a report.
Friday, 10:23 p.m., Wayne Street at Harrison Road. Deputy pulled over a 2010 Chevrolet Malibu for having a its passenger side headlight out. The driver, Jordan Edward Gaunt, 34, Decatur, was charged with driving while suspended with a prior conviction for the same offense, a Class A misdemeanor. He was released from custody on his own recognizance. Gaunt’s license has been suspended indefinitely since Oct. 10, 2010, for failing to appear in court. He was sentenced on both Oct. 30, 2014, and May 11, 2016, both times for driving while suspended.
Saturday, 2:33 a.m., Main Street at Elm Street. Bluffton police officer spotted a vehicle that did not have a functioning license plate light and attempted to follow it. Reportedly the vehicle made several turns before finally stopping in a driveway of a residence on Wabash Street. The officer pulled in behind it. In his report to the court, the officer observed that the driver, Joshua Alan Brigner, 30, Bluffton, appeared intoxicated, smelled of alcohol failed field sobriety tests and blew a .187 percent alcohol concentration equivalency on a Breathalyzer test. He was charged with operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalency of .15 percent or more and operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, both Class A misdemeanors, and improper display or no license plate light and/or taillights, a Class C misdemeanor.
Saturday, 1:16 p.m., residence on Sunrise Way. Caller reported check fraud.
Saturday, 4:44 p.m., Sun-N-Suds, 2190 Commerce Drive. Report of a man and a woman drawing on walls and may have stolen a small shopping cart from Walmart. Officers responded. Ashley Nichole Wood, 32, Bluffton, was arrested on a Madison County warrant for violating probation from an April 17, 2017, conviction for failure to return to lawful detention. She was also charged locally with identity deception, a Level 6 felony. Bond set at $5,000.
Saturday, 5:01 p.m., Pak-A-Sak convenience store, 904 S. Main St. Amazon driver backed into the building.
Saturday, 8:10 p.m., residence in the 600 block of South Jersey Street. Caller reported theft of bicycle.
Saturday, 11:39 p.m., State Farm Insurance, 1796 S. Main St. Report of a suspicious vehicle parked in the parking lot. A man got out of the vehicle and was walking behind the residence next door. Officer responded and located the man who said he was looking for a creek to fish. The man did have fishing supplies in his truck.
INCIDENTS
City:
Sunday, 3:08 a.m., Lowe’s Home Improvement, 2105 N. Main St. Burglar alarm. Officers responded. No sign of foul play found.
Sunday, 12:27 p.m., Wiley and Bond streets. Report of a suspicious suitcase at the stop sign. Officers responded and requested assistance from the Fort Wayne bomb squad as a precaution. Only personal items that would normally be found in a suitcase were found inside.
Sunday, 2:41 p.m., apartment at Pine Grove. Caller reported her ex-husband was trying to break into her apartment. He reportedly left the apartment complex in a Chrysler 300. Officer located the car at Save-On Liquor and arrested Clint Joseph Dankson, 39, Bluffton, on one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a Class C misdemeanor. Bond set at $500.
Sunday, 6:12 p.m., Wells County Public Library, 200 W. Washington St. Bicycle stolen.
Sunday, 6:28 p.m., Valley Park apartments, 320 W. Dustman Rd. Caller reported unauthorized charge of $60 on his debit card.
Sunday, 6:44 p.m., 1800 block of North Main Street. Dually truck lost its back wheels.
Sunday, 7:23 p.m., residence on Wasau Court. Officers requested to assist a man with retrieving his wallet from his wife.
Sunday, 8:11 p.m., Pine Grove apartments. Caller reported a juveniles throwing rocks at her apartment.
Sunday, 10:52 p.m., Pak-A-Sak convenience store, 904 S. Main St. Customer upset and refusing to leave after being unable to pump gas from a faulty pump. Officer responded.
Monday, 3:05 a.m., Quality Car Care, 600 N. Main St. Burglar alarm. Officers responded. No sign of foul play found.
County:
Friday, 2:35 p.m., residence on Ind. 124 west of 200W. Caller reported fraud.
Saturday, 1:23 p.m., Skyline Village apartments. Maintenance worker called police on a report of an unresponsive man in one of the apartments appeared to not be breathing and cold to the touch. Officers and Wells County EMS responded. Man was sleeping, not dead.
Saturday, 4:11 p.m., 300W north of 1100N. Markle Fire Department first responders, sheriff’s deputies and Wells County EMS dispatched on a report of a man down in a ditch having difficulty breathing.
Saturday, 5:12 p.m., Ind. 301 between northwest of Vera Cruz. Man flipped an all-terrain vehicle, suffering a compound fracture to his left forearm. Sheriff’s deputies, Bluffton Fire Department first responders and Wells County EMS dispatched. He was taken to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne.
Saturday, 6:23 p.m., residence in the 1000 block of North Washington Street, Murray. Verbal altercation between an 18-year-old girl and her parents. Deputies responded. Situation calmed. The daughter was warned for trespassing at her parents and her parents were warned for trespassing at the daughter’s residence.
Sunday, 3:04 p.m., 100E near 1000N. Report of a woman walking northbound and crying with a man with face tattoos walking behind her. Deputy dispatched but whoever it was could not be found.
Sunday, 4:38 p.m., Thomas and Patrice Felger residence, 2239E-500N. Report that a 19-year-old man was jumping a dirt bike on a ramp, lost control and upon landing was suffering from left arm numbness and was missing some teeth. Sheriff’s deputies, conservation officer, Bluffton Fire Department first responders and Wells County EMS dispatched.
Ossian:
Wednesday, 9:01 a.m., residence in the 100 block of South Melching Street. Caller reported a metal detector and an electric drum set were stolen from the residence and pawned by a family member.
Thursday, 6:12 p.m., while monitoring traffic on West LaFever Street, an Ossian police officer checked the license plate of a Toyota Corolla that passed by him and discovered it was registered to a person with a suspended driver’s license. He pulled the vehicle over at Ind. 1 and U.S. 224 and discovered that the driver, Ra Tee Par, 25, Fort Wayne, had never been issued a driver’s license. She was charged with operating a motor vehicle while never having been issued a driver’s license, a Class C misdemeanor. She was released on her own recognizance.
Thursday, 9:37 p.m., residence in the 100 block of South Metts Street. Verbal altercation between an ex-husband and wife. Officer responded. Situation calmed. Parties separated.
Friday, 3:19 a.m., Berne Apparel, 2501E-850N. Burglar alarm. Officer responded. Alarm tripped by a delivery truck driver.
Friday, 8:26 p.m., Ossian Subway restaurant drive-through. Employee heard someone pull up to the menu board and asked the customer to wait a minute because she was serving other customers. When the employee turned her attention back to the drive-through she asked the customer to order when he was ready. She then asked again. Then again. Then again, still getting no response. A customer then came inside the store to report that there was a man asleep in his car at the menu board in the drive-through. The employee then called police who discovered Robby W. Middleton, 56, Defiance, Ohio, asleep behind the steering wheel of his Chevrolet sport utility vehicle. Middleton reportedly admitted to the officer that he had been drinking. He reportedly smelled of alcohol, failed field sobriety tests and blew a .201 percent alcohol concentration equivalency on a certified breath test conducted at the Wells County Jail. Middleton was charged with operating a motor vehicle after having been found to be an habitual traffic violator, a Level 6 felony; operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalency of .15 percent or more, a Class A misdemeanor; operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a Class A misdemeanor; and operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a prior conviction for the same or a similar offense, a Level 6 felony. No bond was set.
Saturday, 2:17 a.m., report of two people walking with flashlights along the Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks in the Ossian Industrial Park. Officer checked the tracks but whoever it was had left.
Saturday, 12:17 p.m., Ossian All American Deli, 404 N. Jefferson Street. Woman fell and hit her head. Ossian Fire Department first responders, Wells County EMS and Ossian police dispatched.
Sunday, 6:41 p.m., 400 block of Crist Street. Caller reported there was a man on the property that he did not ant to be there. Officer responded but the man had left before the officer arrived.
ACCIDENTS
City:
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 6 p.m., Main Street at Capri Court. Nicholas T. Johnston, 22, Bluffton, made a left turn in his 2006 Chevrolet Aveo into the path of a northbound 2015 Honda Odyssey van driven by Megan E. Schantz, 33, Bluffton. The ensuing collision caused more than $10,000 in damage.
Saturday, 11:26 a.m., Walmart Supercenter, 2100 N. Main St. Nicole M. Harding, 40, Montpelier, drove a 2012 Dodge Journey into a parking space and struck a 2005 GMC Sierra pickup truck head-on that was parked in the space across from where Harding had driven into. Damage estimated at less than $1,000.
Saturday, 8:55 a.m., Bluffton High School parking lot, 1 Tiger Trail. Juan M. Cruz, 16, Bluffton, was eastbound in a 2011 Chevrolet Malibu. Daniel L. Dunnuck, 39, Bluffton, was backing a 2007 Ford Freestyle van into a parking space when the two vehicles collided causing more than $1,000 damage
Saturday, 11:45 a.m., Walmart Supercenter parking lot, 2100 N. Main St. Parked 2006 Dodge Ram pickup truck, registered owner not listed, hit by a hit-and-run driver. Damage exceeded $1,000.
County:
Friday, 5:47 a.m., 200S east of 350E. Lisa K. Flueckiger, 58, Bluffton, hit a deer with a 2017 GMC Savanna van registered to Reliable Van Rentals, Portland. Damage to the van exceeded $2,500.
Friday, 2:06 p.m., 100E at 1100N. William T. Semon, 33, Markle, was driving a Mazda 6 south on 100E. Shane Little, 24, Bluffton, was driving a 2016 Chrysler 200 east on 1100N. At the intersection 1100N has the right of way over 100E. Semon’s Mazda entered the intersection and collided with Little’s Chrysler. After impact, both vehicles traveled into the front yard of David and Linda Bouman, 1048E-1100N. Semon suffered a severe head injury in the crash and was taken by Wells County EMS to Lutheran Hospital. Little was not injured in the crash. Total damage exceeded $10,000.
ARRESTS
Sevada Arness Palmore, 47, South Bend; vehicle theft, a Level 6 felony. Bond set at $5,000.
Megan Renee Eisaman, 21, Bluffton; disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor, and violation of probation. Bond set at $3,000.
Austin Matthew Voss, 29, rural Alexandria; 10 counts of stalking, all Level 6 felonies. Bond set at $50,000.
TICKETS
Juan M. Cruz, 16, Bluffton; seat belt violation, Main Street at Spring Street.
Roy D. Seegars, 47, Gaston; 75 mph-45 zone, Adams Street at Cherry Street.
