INDIANAPOLIS — Police are investigating after a dead body was found at a landfill on Indy’s south side. Someone reported finding a body Wednesday afternoon at Southside Landfill on Kentucky Avenue. Police arrived and located the body. The person’s manner and cause of death have not been determined. Police are still looking into what happened.
INDIANAPOLIS — Derek Oechsle has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder of Christopher Smith. In November 2019, Smith was at a bar on Indy’s south side with his bachelor party, celebrating his marriage. At some point, Oechsle got into a fight with someone in the bar. When Smith tried to break […]
WASHINGTON — A Vincennes man was arrested earlier this week in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Jonathan Ace Sanders, Sr. is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Court papers say an anonymous tip was received by […]
A 4-year-old child was taken to Riley Hospital for Children and is in stable condition Wednesday after being shot in the leg on the Northeast side of Indianapolis. Officers were called to a house on East 42nd Street, between Post Road and Mitthoeffer Road around 1 am after an unknown shooter fired bullets into the […]
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man has been found guilty of fatally shooting another man outside an east side bar in 2018. Derek Whitt has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of David Ballinger. Video footage from the bar on English Avenue shows Whitt’s then-fiance having an argument with Ballinger on Aug. 25, 2018. Later […]
UPDATE: Bryan Swalley has been found and is safe, Carmel Police said Wednesday on Facebook. CARMEL, Ind. — Carmel Police are asking for the public’s help to find a missing 14-year-old boy. Bryan Swalley was last seen at 4 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of East Main Street and Lexington Drive, according to the Carmel […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Police have provided an update about a shooting Wednesday morning on the city’s northeast side. A 14-year-old was initially believed to have been grazed by a bullet. However, investigators have determined that the teenager’s injuries were “likely from debris and not consistent with a gunshot wound”. A 4-year-old was taken to Riley Hospital […]
INDIANAPOLIS — A man who was arrested in Indianapolis last week on an out-of-state warrant for robberies and sexual assaults in Philadelphia now faces additional charges for an incident that happened in Indy in April. Kevin Bennett was arrested Saturday in Indianapolis for assaulting three women at gunpoint in Philadelphia between May 15 and May […]
COLUMBUS, Ind. — A man from Indianapolis was arrested Monday for lighting another man on fire. The Columbus Police Department says around 3:30 a.m., 39-year-old Ralph Shaw got into a fight with the man. Witnesses say the argument escalated. “He was actually holding a glass jar that contained the gasoline, and at some point, the […]
An Evansville woman was arrested Monday morning after she ran over an Evansville police officer's arm while resisting arrest.
