Another year of Youth Leadership Hendricks County (YLHC) is underway. The 34 member class of 2017 recently completed their Opening Retreat at Jameson Camp. The 2017 class will meet monthly through March 2017 to learn leadership skills and about the many facets of life in Hendricks County. Executive Director Susan …
Read More »Avon Chamber of Commerce to host fundraiser to purchase police helmets and vest plates for Avon Police
Avon, IN, September 7, 2016– The Executive Director of the Avon Chamber of Commerce and the Chief of the Avon Police Department will go head to head in a friendly competition beginning at 5:00pm on Tuesday, September 13th, to raise funds for new helmets and vest plates for the Avon …
Read More »The Marion County Traffic Safety Partnership Announces End of the 2016 “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” Campaign
Indianapolis, IN. – The Marion County Traffic Safety Partnership announced today the completion of the national and statewide 2016 Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement mobilization campaign. During the annual 25-day enforcement period officers working overtime as part of the partnership efforts conducted 5 DUI checkpoints within Marion County, …
Read More »Argument turns deadly when man is shot and killed outside a residence
INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal shooting on the city’s east side. Just after 9p.m. on 09/06/2016, officers with the IMPD were dispatched to the 1100 block of N Kealing Ave on reports of shots fired. Responding officers arrived and located an unresponsive …
Read More »One Dead After Serious Crash on I-65 near Downtown Indianapolis Tuesday
Indianapolis, IN – Around 3:45 Tuesday afternoon emergency crews responded to a serious crash on I-65 southbound at the 111.2 mile marker near the south split. A dump truck pulling a trailer rear-ended a semi tractor-trailer, entrapping both occupants in the truck. Traffic was slowing to a stop due to an earlier crash …
Read More »Miller: Indiana Senate Republicans Offering Paid Internships
STATEHOUSE (Sept. 1, 2016) — The Indiana Senate Republican Caucus is offering paid, spring-semester internships in its legislative, legal, policy, communications and information technology offices during the 2017 session of the General Assembly, said State Sen. Pete Miller (R-Brownsburg). Qualified candidates must be at least a college sophomore. Recent college …
Read More »Florida man pleads guilty to securities fraud
INDIANAPOLIS (August 31, 2016) — Today, Mark Bunker of Sarasota, Florida was sentenced for securities fraud. Bunker was sentenced to 2 years of home detention followed by 3 years of probation and ordered to pay $287,995.63 in restitution. Bunker brought $15,000 of the restitution to sentencing and will pay $4,000 …
Read More »Female who assaulted a police officer during a shoplifting incident at a local grocery store has been arrested
INDIANAPOLIS – Detectives have arrested 45-year-old Juanita Scanlan of Indianapolis and preliminarily charged her with resisting law enforcement, theft and unauthorized entry of a vehicle. The suspect was apprehended the same afternoon in the 1700 E. 77th St. inside an uninvolved vehicle, and taken into custody without further incident. The suspect was suffering from …
Read More »IMPD homicide detectives investigating after a person is shot and killed in a gas station parking lot
INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) homicide detectives are investigating after a man is shot and killed in a gas station parking lot on the city’s northeast side. Officers with the IMPD were patrolling the area of 34th and Sherman Dr just after 3:30 p.m. when they heard multiple …
Read More »Safe Labor Day Weekend Travel
The Indiana State Police, the Governor’s Council on Impaired & Dangerous Driving and the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute are participating in the national and statewide 2016 Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement mobilization occurring Aug. 12 through Sept. 5. Officers will join more than 250 state and local law …
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