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California Man Arrested for Dealing Approximately 13 Pounds of Marijuana

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Yesterday evening, a California man was arrested for dealing approximately 13 pounds of marijuana. 


Tuesday, at approximately 4:31 P.M., Trooper Casey Boeckman was working the Pike County area of I-69.  Trooper Boeckman initiated a traffic stop on a Black 2020 Nissan Altima for speeding.  When Trooper Boeckman spoke to the driver, he detected the strong odor of raw marijuana coming from inside of the vehicle.  Trooper Boeckman called for another police officer to come assist him.  Trooper Stein, Trooper Manning and Pike County Sheriff’s Department arrived on scene.  A search of the vehicle produced approximately 13 pounds of suspected marijuana in the back seat and the trunk.  The suspected marijuana was collected.  Ward was transported to the Pike County jail where he is being held without bond.  The female driver took possession of vehicle.

Arthur Ward

Arrested and Charges:

  • Arthur Ward, 26 1008 Mable Avenue, Bakersfield, CA
  1. Dealing Marijuana, Level 6 Felony
  2. Possession of Marijuana Over 10 Pounds, Level 6 Felony

Arresting Officer: Trooper Boeckman, Indiana State Police

Assisting Officers: Trooper Stein and Trooper Manning, Indiana State Police

Assisting Agencies:  Pike County Sheriff’s Office

 

Otters top ThunderBolts behind Portela’s strong start

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With a strong six-inning outing, Polo Portela led the Evansville Otters to victory in their series opener against the Windy City ThunderBolts Tuesday night by a 3-1 final.

 

The Otters struck first in the opening frame, as back-to-back two-out hits from J.R. Davis and Riley Krane set the table for Elijah MacNamee, who drove in a run on a line drive, base hit to centerfield. Evansville then led 1-0.

 

Following a 1-2-3 inning for Otters starter Polo Portela in the bottom half of the first, Windy City would tie it up in their second turn at bat. Jack Strunc drove in Zac Taylor with two outs to knot the score at one.

 

From then until the sixth, Portela and T-Bolts southpaw Kenny Mathews traded scoreless innings.

 

The Otters broke the 1-1 tie in the top of the sixth, when Elijah MacNamee drove in his second run of the day with an RBI groundout that scored Andy DeJesus from third.

 

Andretty Cordero extended Evansville’s lead in the following at-bat, lining a run-scoring single to right center that drove in J.R. Davis from second.

 

Polo would finish through six, having allowed the lone second-inning run on five hits and two walks, while striking out six.

 

Tyler Spring came into the ballgame to work perfect seventh and eight innings.

 

With a two-run lead, the Otters turned to their hard-throwing closer, Logan Sawyer, who struck out two en route to his eleventh save of the season.

 

Polo Portela earned his sixth win of the season in the 3-1 decision. Kenny Mathews took the loss.

 

Evansville will look to take the series Wednesday, as they send rookie right-hander Ryan O’Reilly to the rubber. First pitch is scheduled for 10:35 a.m.

 

VANDERBURGH COUNTY RECENT BOOKING RECENT

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https://www.vanderburghsheriff.com/jail-recent-booking-records.aspx

Town Hall Meeting Connect Hoosier Veterans To Needed Resources

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By Carolina Puga Mendoza

TheStatehouseFile.com 

INDIANAPOLIS—The challenges veterans face, such as mental illness and unemployment, can be overlooked as the country focuses on reopening at full capacity. However, resources for them remain.

Rep. Mike Andrade, D-Munster, is hosting what he describes as the first town hall for veterans held by a legislator in Lake County. The town hall meeting has invited a variety of agencies to promote their resources.

Andrade belongs to the Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee in the Indiana House. He said he wants to bring awareness to the issues veterans face and connect them to what they and their families need.

About 7.6% of Hoosiers are veterans, mainly livingaround the Marion and Lake County areas.

“I felt that it was my responsibility to make sure that the veterans have a voice at the Statehouse, and I want to be able to show them that I care. They paid a sacrifice in their lives to go fight for our country and to help in other areas, and so the least we can do is to support them,” Andrade said.

Andrade and his team have been planning the event since March and managed to invite 15 agencies that will provide veterans a variety of resources. They wanted to hold an in-person meeting earlier to make the most out of it, but due to COVID-19, it was delayed until this summer.

The agencies will provide information on subjects ranging from mental health and therapy to housing and employment.

A common challenge among veterans and those who have actively served involve mental health issues and applying their experience to civilian jobs.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, common mental health factors affecting veterans include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. Research shows that unattended mental health problems lead to lower performance by the individual, leading to social and economic costs.

Homelessness and housing insecurity also challenge many veterans. According to a study, in the U.S., 14% of homeless adults are veterans.

Similarly, adjusting back into civilian life comes as a challenge for many. As previously reported in The Statehouse File, veterans can struggle in the transition back to civilian employment, failing to adapt their resumes from active duty.

“We talked about all the different things that they’ve done in their military careers and show them how that’s a direct correlation with what happens in civilian life, and once we make those connections, then people are like, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re right, I did do that kind of thing. I do have a lot more skills than what I thought I did,’” said John Zeigler, employment transition manager at Operation: Job Ready Veterans.

At the town hall, there will be people from colleges that offer tuition to veterans who want to pursue higher education. According to the Postsecondary National Policy Institute, in the U.S. as of 2018, 52% of veterans were enrolled in undergraduate programs.

Also present will be food banks to provide veterans and their families with groceries. According to the Journal of Nutrition, almost 33% of surveyed families connected to a U.S. Army installation said they were food insecure in 2019.

Other organizations that will attend the town hall include Purdue Northwest, Combat Bike Saver, Lake County Recorder, American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and Lake County Veterans Treatment Court.

“On a state level and local level, we need to do a better job of marketing and letting people know [about resources] so that our veterans know about it,” Andrade said.

This year, only two out of 16 bills related to veterans became public law. Among them, Senate Enrolled Act 93 provides qualified nonresident veterans eligibility to pay in-state tuition, and SEA 316 changes the definition of “qualified service member” and requires the Indiana veterans’ affairs commission to complete certain changes to policies.

The town hall will take place at 10 a.m. EST Friday, July 16 at the Indiana Army National Guard, 2530 173rd St., Hammond, Indiana.

FOOTNOTE: Carolina Puga Mendoza is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

Hoosiers Ready for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020

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A total of 15 current and former Indiana University student-athletes, as well as two coaches, have arrived in Tokyo for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

Competition for the summer games begins with women’s soccer on July 21. The Opening Ceremonies are scheduled for July 23. The Hoosiers will have representation in men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s diving, women’s soccer and women’s water polo.

Fans will be able to follow along with all of the Hoosiers in Tokyo here. The page will include participating schedules, bio information, updated results and general news regarding all athletes competing in the Olympics.

TELEVISION/VIDEO COVERAGE

The Tokyo Olympics will be broadcast and streamed in the U.S. on NBC Universal platforms, which will feature more than 7,000 hours of coverage.

In addition to NBC, the Games will be featured on CNBC, Golf Channel, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Network, Telemundo and USA.

Olympic shows and live events also will be streamed on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and NBCSports.com.

NBC’s streaming service Peacock has started some of its Olympic channels and will carry livestreams of most sports, including popular gymnastics and track and field. All of Peacock shows and event coverage will be available free of charge except for men’s basketball.

HOOSIER OLYMPIC HISTORY

Indiana holds a storied history of Olympic successes matched by few universities across the country. With 15 more athletes and coaches slated to represent the Cream and Crimson this year, IU has posted a total of 240 Olympic berths, representing 26 countries. Indiana will be representing Israel for the first time at the 2020 Games. In addition, on 17 occasions, Olympic coaches have come from IU.

For athletes, the Indiana University medal count is at 104 including 55 gold, 17 silver and 32 bronze. The Hoosiers have earned a medal at every Olympic Games they have competed in except 2004. The most productive year was 1968, with 17 medals for IU competitors in Mexico City.

Indiana University has had at least one Olympian in the last 21 Olympic Games – a stretch that goes back to 1932.

HOOSIERS IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020

Bailey Andison – Team Canada – Women’s Swimming

Zach Apple – Team USA – Men’s Swimming

Michael Brinegar* – Team USA – Men’s Swimming

Andrew Capobianco* – Team USA – Men’s Diving

Marwan Elkamash – Team Egypt – Men’s Swimming

Tomer Frankel* – Team Israel – Men’s Swimming

Jessica Gaudreault – Team Canada – Women’s Water Polo

Mike Hixon – Team USA – Men’s Diving

Ali Khalafalla – Team Egypt – Men’s Swimming

Lilly King – Team USA – Women’s Swimming

Vini Lanza – Team Brazil – Men’s Swimming

Shae (Fournier) La Roche – Team Canada – Women’s Water Polo

Jessica Parratto – Team USA – Women’s Diving

Blake Pieroni – Team USA – Men’s Swimming

Gabi Rennie* – Team Australia – Women’s Soccer

Drew Johansen – Team USA – Head Diving Coach

Ray Looze – Team USA – Assistant Swimming Coach

 

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HEALTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES STATEWIDE COVID-19 CASE COUNTS

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HEALTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES STATEWIDE COVID-19 CASE COUNTS

Commentary: Another Year, Another Record Murder Rate

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Commentary: Another Year, Another Record Murder Rate

July 20, 2021  
Posted by:
Statehouse Files

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
IndyPoltics.Org 

Indianapolis is on track for another year of record murders.

I will let that sink in.

Abdul Hakim-Shabazz is an attorney and the editor and publisher of IndyPoltics.Org.

As I write this column, we have had close to 130 murders in the city, or a murder every 1.44 days. This puts us on track for 254 criminal homicides, far exceeding the 214  murders we saw in 2020. And even if you exclude the three mass shootings we had this year, Indianapolis is still on track to break last year’s record.

And to add insult to injury, the murder stats haven’t really changed all that much. Roughly 89% of the victims had criminal histories and accounted for 272 adult felony arrests. About 77% of the suspects had criminal records and accounted for 156 adult felony arrests. And 63% of the murders involved a black victim, even though blacks are less than 30% of the population.

What makes this annoying is that this city has spent millions over the years in crime prevention grant money, and it seems all we get for our results is more crime. Since 2017, the city of Indianapolis has spent nearly $17 million in crime prevention grant dollars, and at the end of the day, it seems that all we have is more crime each year, particularly with our murder rates.

And the city is getting ready to spend another $3 million on summer crime prevention, but that money won’t be distributed for a few more months, so there’s plenty of time for the body count to get higher.

You have to ask where has all the money gone? What are these community groups doing with the cash, make that taxpayer dollars that they’ve received? I realize this could be asking to prove a negative; after all, how do you demonstrate someone didn’t get shot because of your efforts, but something has to be done, and there needs to be some form of accountability.

And don’t get me started on the “Violence Interrupters,” the city’s answer to the Ten-Point Coalition. What violence have they interrupted? I know they took a trip to Oakland to study their anti-crime efforts, which by the way, pretty much boiled down to gentrification.  But the body count in Indianapolis continues to grow. And did I mention that one of the violence interrupters was recently charged with the Level 6 felony of intimidation?

So what is the city to do to get its murder rate under control?

The  Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police has put out a shortlist of four things that the city could do today.

  1. Purchase and deploy a gunshot detection system.
  2. Purchase and deploy mobile and static license readers.
  3. Staff the arrestee processing center 24 hours a day, particularly during the summer months.
  4. Cease automatic low bonds for repeat convicted felons for all-new Level 6 felonies charged.

I am a big fan of point number four, ceasing low bonds. The fact that most of the crime victims and suspects have adult felonies is a pretty good indicator that someone isn’t spending enough time behind bars. If they were, someone would probably still be alive today.

Speaking of which, I didn’t get a chance to mention our non-fatal shootings, which are also through the roof. And note, had someone had better aim, or Indianapolis not had a really good medical infrastructure, our murder numbers would be a lot higher.

I get the fact that crime is up nationwide and addressing the issue will take long-term solutions.  But with that said, something needs to be done and done now. Another year of record criminal homicides is not another record I want to see Indianapolis break.

FOOTNOTE: bdul is an attorney and the editor and publisher of IndyPoltics.Org. He is also a frequent contributor to numerous Indiana media outlets. He can be reached at abdul@indypolitics.org.

The City County Observer posted this article without bias or editing.

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HEALTH OFFICIALS URGE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES

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HEALTH OFFICIALS URGE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES AS WEST NILE VIRUS ACTIVITY IS DETECTED

U.S. Department of Education Backs Off Critical Race Theory, Marking A Win For Hoosier Families

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the Biden Administration reversed course on educational proposals aimed at imposing the teaching of critical race theory (CRT), the 1619 Project, and other similar curriculum into America’s classrooms. The move comes on the heels of a 20-state letter led by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita  pushing back against the proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Education establishing priorities for grants in American History and Civics Education programs.

Attorney General Rokita issued the following statement:

“Chalk up a win for Hoosier families! In May, I led a coalition of 20 state attorneys general calling on the U.S. Department of Education to back off its promotion of leftist ideologies such as critical race theory. More importantly, thousands of parents nationwide raised their voices making the same demand. The work has paid off! Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced it is changing the grant program that quite rightly came under fire.

“Even as we celebrate this victory, however, we must stay watchful. Bureaucrats in Washington could very well stop using the term ‘critical race theory’ while continuing to fund programs that veer into bigotry, divisiveness and indoctrination aimed at discrediting American institutions and the beauty of our Constitution. We will continue working to preserve the qualities that make our republic a shining city on a hill.”

IVY TECH TO HOLD 16th ANNUAL CRUISE-IN Event ON JULY 31

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The public is invited to Ivy Tech Community College’s 16th CRUISE-IN car show presented by Lucas Oil Center on Saturday, July 31 from 3:30 – 8 p.m. at the main campus in Evansville, 3501 N. First Avenue.

The annual event is free and open to the public, and typically attracts between 200-400 visitors. There will be live music by Cinco de Blues, food trucks and a Lucas Oil race car.

Attendees can expect to see street rods, trucks, and other unique cars from around the Tri-State. Awards will be presented for Best Domestic Car, Best Import Car, and Best All-Around, People’s Choice, and someone will win the Lucas Oil Big Kahuna Trophy.

This year’s event is sponsored by Lucas Oil Centers; Larry’s Automotive; Evansville Teachers Federal Credit Union; Menke’s Auto Repair; The Duell’s Evansville Hyundai and Kia; Kenny Kent Toyota; Expressway Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Ram; Technician.Academy; Romaine Cross Pointe Auto Park, Ivy Tech’s Automotive Technology Program; and the Ivy Tech Foundation.

 

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