INDIANAPOLIS — Beginning Wednesday, March 18, to lessen strain on offenders and their loved ones as a result of the COVID-19 virus, Indiana Department of Correction officials worked with the telephone and video service provider to help prisoners keep in contact with those outside prison walls. The short-term policy permits each eligible offender the opportunity …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — While there are currently no known cases of Coronavirus among staff or offenders housed at Indiana Department of Correction facilities, visitation to certain prison facilities has been suspended indefinitely. The decision to suspend visitation is precautionary in nature and was made in the interest of the health and safety of IDOC staff and …read more.

WARSAW — A Syracuse man received a 17-year prison sentence after accepting a plea deal for drug dealing and other charges in Kosciusko Circuit Court Monday, Jan. 6. Neal Ryan Minnick, 40, 202 E. Washington St., Syracuse, pleaded guilty to six charges in two separate cases. A third case was dismissed pursuant to the plea …read more.

WARSAW — A man convicted of multiple drug charges received a 25-year sentence in Kosciusko County Circuit Court Tuesday, Sept. 24. The sentence was the result of a plea agreement involving charges in four separate cases. Per the plea agreement, Eric Scott McFarland, 38, with an address on file of 41 EMS W16 Lane, North …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Law enforcement agencies are currently searching for a man who was sentenced to serve seven years at the Indiana Department of Corrections in November 2017. Kevin L. Bronson, 59, was one of three persons indicted by a Kosciusko County Grand Jury in late 2015, with official charges brought against him,  Aaron Rovenstine and …read more.

INDIANA — Indiana Department of Corrections offender Travis Hornett, 39, who escaped Wednesday, July 10, was captured shortly after midnight Thursday, July 11. Officials yesterday confirmed that Hornett, of Waterloo, walked away from the low-level facility located at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. At approximately 11 a.m. Wednesday, it was discovered that Offender Travis …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — A North Webster man was sentenced to three years at the Indiana Department of Corrections for his involvement in a drug deal that took place at a local nursing home.  Kevin Stuckman, 20, 5430 North CR 900E, North Webster, pleaded guilty to dealing in methamphetamine, a level 5 felony, in Kosciusko Circuit Court …read more.

WARSAW — Kimbert Alvin Gregory Crafton, 34, 609 W. Boston, Syracuse, has found himself returning to the Indiana Department of Corrections to serve out his sentence in two Kosciusko County cases. He had been released from IDOC March 17 after serving time for probation violation in a Marshall County case. Crafton appeared before Kosciusko Superior …read more.

WARSAW — County Sheriff Kyle Dukes spoke to the Kosciusko County Council on Thursday night, Feb. 14 and touted his efforts to continue to reduce the county jail’s prison population and also invited county officials to come take a whiff of the place since his tenure began at the first of the year. “I want …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — A Syracuse man was sentenced to five years in the Indiana Department of Corrections in Kosciusko Circuit Court Wednesday, Dec. 26, for dealing methamphetamine while children were present at a residence. Jerry Wayne Jilton, 29, 509 Prairie Drive, Syracuse, through a plea agreement, pleaded guilty to dealing in methamphetamine, a level 4 felony, …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — A Warsaw man was sentenced to 15 years in the Indiana Department of Corrections in Kosciusko Circuit Court Wednesday, Dec. 26, in three different cases involving animal cruelty, battery and drug charges. In the first case, Jerrod Wayne Turpen, 33, 3171 Deerfield Path, Warsaw, was charged with battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, …read more.

Nathan Michael Ries WARSAW — Nathan Ries, 18, who has had addresses of 16032 CR 52, Syracuse, and 8017 E. Pioneer Way, North Webster, is going to have to prove to the court he really has changed. Ries, who was involved in two incidents allegedly involving drugs, retaliation and assault rifles, was sentenced to 12 …read more.

ELKHART — “It’s not everything you wanted,” Special Judge Stephen Bowers, Elkhart Superior Court 2, told Alexander Jackson Thursday, Nov. 29. “The step down is more pronounced as before… .” Jackson, 27, Syracuse, was before Bowers for a hearing on a sentence modification with the courtroom nearly packed with family and friends showing moral support. …read more.

WARSAW — Coulter M. Slone, 20, 1520 E. Winona Ave., Warsaw, will be serving an additional two years at the Indiana Department of Corrections following his sentencing Thursday, Sept. 27. Slone is currently serving a four-year sentence in an Allen County case. Slone pleaded guilty to two level 6 felony battery charges in two separate …read more.

WARSAW — A South Whitley man was sentenced in Kosciusko County Superior Court 1 on Thursday, Sept. 20, for his role in an attempted retaliation between drug dealers, according to the police report. Jeffery John Walker, 23, 106 N. Maple St., South Whitley, was initially charged with dealing and possessing marijuana as well as armed …read more.

WARSAW — A Warsaw man was sentenced to jail time with both the Indiana Department of Corrections as well as the Kosciusko County Jail after he was found guilty of drug offenses while out of jail on work release. Shane Dale Cox, 40, 321 S. High St., Warsaw, was charged with two counts of possession …read more.

WARSAW — A Warsaw man was sentenced to seven years in jail with two of those years suspended as a result of an incident where a couple he’d known for two decades reported coming home and catching him in the act of burglarizing their home. Michael Lee Eppenbaugh, 36, 5049 Reo Ave., South Bend, was …read more.

WARSAW — Kosciusko County Sheriff Rocky Goshert championed public safety and rehabilitation for inmates in his address to the Kosciusko County Council Thursday, Feb. 8. The sheriff told the panel he would be looking into the addition of a body scanner, which would detect drugs coming into the Kosciusko County Jail. Goshert said such a …read more.