A Merrillville man, 25-year-old Joseph Steven Sanders, has been charged in Lake County after investigators detailed a violent incident that they say caused significant injuries during an alleged domestic battery and confinement on November 29, 2025. According to the probable cause affidavit, officers responded to a Merrillville home after receiving a report that a man … Read more
Jeffrey Raymond Crider, 20, of DeMotte, has been charged and arrested after investigators say security footage captured him breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s Hebron apartment, cutting out a window screen, entering the residence, and leaving with her pet cat. According to the probable cause affidavit, police were dispatched around 11:45 AM on October 22, 2025, to … Read more
Authorities have charged Sean Ray James Hutchins, 37, of Valparaiso, with three felony counts of child molesting after investigators documented allegations involving a child at a Danvers Parkway home between 2021 and 2022. According to the affidavit, a family member took a young child to the Valparaiso Police Department on September 30, 2022, reporting concerns … Read more
Joshua Westervelt, 36, is facing felony charges after police say he spent the year repeatedly stealing and selling copper wire from utility poles on Indy’s near east side. Court records from Marion County show Westervelt began small in January, selling a few pounds of stolen wire for $2 to $20. The amounts quickly escalated into … Read more
Kennedy Paige Carter, 27, of Portage, faces a felony neglect charge after police say she left her two young children home alone before being stopped for a traffic violation on November 30. According to the affidavit, officers observed a 2014 Kia Optima at U.S. 20 and County Line Road allegedly speeding, weaving, and running a … Read more
Enrique Verdecia-Cala, 35, Alien Sanchez-Mozo, 41, and Adrian Cubela-Rives, 32, face felony charges after Chesterton Police say the trio attempted to steal used cooking oil from two local restaurants and later claimed they had authorization to collect oil across Indiana, according to Porter County court documents. Police were called to Northside Diner at 100 N. … Read more
Charles William Krone, 57, of Michigan City, faces two felony child-solicitation charges after investigators say he drove to Portage to meet someone he believed was a 13-year-old girl. According to the affidavit, NWI Predator Catchers reported the incident to Portage Police on November 29, 2025, after interacting with a decoy profile posing as a 13-year-old. … Read more
Rep. Robin Kelly, a Democratic congresswoman from Illinois and longtime maternal health advocate, is pushing Congress to act after a disturbing video showed a Black woman in Indiana being turned away from a hospital while in active labor — forcing her to give birth in her truck minutes later. Kelly introduced the Women Expansion for … Read more
A Michigan mother who publicly spoke about her newborn daughter battling a rare virus has been arrested for allegedly killing the child by repeatedly suffocating her with a bag. Irene Aiyana Whitehead, 27, was taken into custody last week and charged with first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse in the death of her daughter, Ryleigh Whitehead, … Read more
The Indiana State Police says it is watching for fraudulent commercial driver’s licenses reportedly issued to illegal immigrants, after being warned by other states. ISP told News 10 that, under a 287G agreement with the federal government, troopers help ICE detain suspected illegal immigrants — including commercial drivers traveling on Indiana interstates. “There are illegal … Read more