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Owensville Man Arrested for Child Exploitation
A 28-year-old Owensville man was arrested earlier today by Indiana State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Unit for Child Exploitation and Possession of Child Pornography.
A search warrant was issued in April after Indiana State Police received a tip that Coty N. Silvers was allegedly possessing child pornography. Detectives with the Indiana State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force located and seized several devices belonging to Silvers. The devices were later examined and over 1,200 images and 45 videos containing child pornography were located. Some images and videos contained children under the age of 12. After reviewing the investigation, the Gibson County Prosecutor’s Office issued a warrant for Silvers’ arrest. He was arrested this afternoon at his residence without incident. Silvers was taken to the Gibson County Jail where he is currently being held on bond.
Arrested and Charges:
- Coty N. Silvers, 28, 9700 Winyard Place, Owensville, IN
- Child Exploitation, Level 4 Felony
- Possession of Child Pornography, Level 5 Felony
JUST IN: LOCAL FOP LODGE #73 MAKES ENDORSEMENTS FOR UPCOMING GENERAL ELECTION
The Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 just announced their endorsements for the upcoming Vanderburgh County general elections
The Political Action Committee of the Police Lodge #73 held a press conference this morning at the FOP lodge to announce who they support in the upcoming November general election.
All eyes were focused on today’s announcement concerning who the Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 Political Action Committee is endorsing for County Commissioner District 2 and County Prosecutor in the upcoming November 2018 County elections?
The Political Action Committee of the Police Lodge #73 FOP lodge announced the following individuals who they support in the upcoming November 2018 general election.
Stan Levco for Vanderburgh County Prosecutor.
Jeff Hatfield for Vanderburgh County County Commissioner District 2.
Dave Wedding for Vanderburgh County Sheriff.
Stephanie Terry County Council District 3.
James Raben for County Council District 1.
Tom Shelter Jr. for County Council District 2.
John Montrastelle for County Council District 4.
Footnote: The just posted “Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that the local FOP endorsement of Stan Levco for County Prosecutor and Jeff Hatfield for County Commission will greatly enhance their chances of being elected to those positions?
Valley Play Opens On Friday For UE Volleyball
Aces play three matches in four days
Missouri Valley Conference play is set to begin this weekend for the University of Evansville volleyball team as the Purple Aces welcome Loyola and Valparaiso to Meeks Family Fieldhouse this weekend before traveling to Drake on Monday.
UE faces the Ramblers on Friday before the Crusaders come to town on Saturday; the Aces then take to the road for a Monday evening match in Des Moines; all three matches are set to begin at 7 p.m. Last weekend, the Aces finished up the non-conference slate at the Flyer Invitational in Dayton, Ohio. Rachel Tam was named to the All-Tournament Team for her efforts, which included 15 kills against the Flyers.
With a total of 229 kills in non-conference play, Tam ranks fourth in the nation and paces the MVC. She is 9th in the nation in total points with 244.5 on the season. Tam was named to the All-Tournament Team last weekend at Dayton, posting a total of 36 kills in the three matches; her effort in Dayton came on the heels of a 25-kill match against Tennessee State.
Mildrelis Rodriguez had a nice weekend in Dayton, posting 2.60 kills per set and 1.40 digs per game. Elizabeth Giller was third on the team with 1.33 kills/set and was followed by the duo of Alondra Vazquez and Kerra Cornist. Vazquez paced the team at the Flyer Invitational with 2.90 digs.
Loyola comes into the conference opener with a record of 8-4 after picking up a win over DePaul last weekend. Elle Van Grinsven and Heather Kocken are in the top ten in the league in hitting, ranking 7th and 10th, respectively. Quinn Spieker leads the Ramblers with 2.79 kills per set.
Valparaiso has gotten off to a strong 13-2 start in its first 14 matches with its only losses coming to Fresno State and #20 Michigan. Last weekend, they won the Crusader Classic, defeating Cornell, Western Illinois and Wright State. Brittany Anderson is second in the MVC with 10.95 assists per game while Sydney Bronner is second in the league, hitting .358.
Drake is off to a solid 11-3 start heading into the weekend and are coming off of a hard-fought 3-1 loss at Kansas on Tuesday. They open conference play on Friday against UNI before welcoming UE on Monday. Cathryn Cheek is tops on the team with 3.05 kills per game while Elle Tubbs ranks third in the league hitting .322.
FaceBook Twitter Print Page view all articlesFingerprints Link Suspect to Sexually Graphic Notes Left on Cars
- The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Newburgh man who left sexually explicit messages on the vehicles of female students at the University of Southern Indiana.
On Tuesday, September 04, 2018 deputies assigned to the Sheriff’s Office USI Patrol Unit began an investigation after several female students contacted USI Public Safety to report obscene notes left on the windshield of their vehicles. The notes were sexually explicit in nature, proposed sexual activity in graphic detail and seemed to refer specifically to each female victim. The notes were written in a manner that suggested the offender had been watching each victim prior to leaving the note. The notes themselves were obviously written by the same person and were on the same type of paper. While only three notes were reported to our Office, it is possible that more were simply discarded and not reported.
Deputies took possession of the notes and submitted them into evidence for further investigation. Two certified crime scene technicians from our Office were able to use the laboratory facilities at the Sheriff’s Operations Center to forensically process the notes. Detectives were able to develop not only fingerprints but palm prints suitable for submission to the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). On September 18 our detectives were notified of an AFIS “hit†on the submitted fingerprints. The prints were matched to an Aaron Douglas Otto of Newburgh, Indiana.
Detectives consulted with the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office and obtained an arrest warrant today. Late this this afternoon Mr. Otto was stopped leaving his home in Newburgh and taken into custody. He was later booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail on $3000.00 bond.
Sheriff Dave Wedding stated, “We hope there are no other victims, but we realize that Mr. Otto’s activities may not have been confined to the campus. By publishing the details of his arrest, we hope that other victims might come forward with additional information.†Sheriff Wedding added, “I’d like to thank Dr. Ronald Rochon and his team at USI Public Safety for their assistance and continued support of our campus security partnership.â€
ARRESTED:
Aaron Douglas Otto (pictured above), 31, of Newburgh. Intimidation as a Class A Misdemeanor (3 counts), Harassment as a Class B Misdemeanor (3 counts).
Presumption of Innocence Notice: The fact that a person has been arrested or charged with a crime is merely an accusation. The defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.
“IS IT TRUE” SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?
IS IT TRUE it been rumored that yesterdays officials of State Board Of Accounts (SBOA) held an exit conference with several city officials? …it is also rumored that the State Auditors expressed that they are extremely concerned that the City of Evansville has had 11 months of overdrawn cash balances in their general funds during the year they audited? …its also been rumored that city official were also told by the SBOA there have also been an additional 9 to 10 different funds that have been overdrawn during the audited period?  … that word at the Civic Center is that the SBOA has given the Winnecke Administration 6 months to find a remedy to correct the problems of the overdrawn city accounts?  …we are told when this audit is made public it will cause some serious public discussion about the spending habits of the Winnecke administration?
IS IT TRUE that it looks like that former City Council President and Finance Chairman John Friend, CPA predictions that beginning in 2018 that the City shall be experiencing some serious cash flow problems may be spot on? Â …we would like to hear Mr. Friends prediction for the 2019 budget year?
IS IT TRUE we wonder what would the Board of Directors of a major Corporation do when they found out that their Controller has had 11 months of overdrawn cash balances in their general funds during the year?  …we think the answer would be a resounding “Your Fired”?
IS IT TRUE if you overdraw your personal checking account for 11 months in a row what would the bank do with your account? Â …the answer is that they would close it after the first month your account was overdrawn?
IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 will announce their endorsements for the Vanderburgh County general elections this morning at 11:00 am? …that the Political Action Committee of the Police Lodge #73 will hold a press conference at the FOP lodge at 801 Court St at 11:00 am?
IS IT TRUE that all eyes will be focused on today’s announcement concerning who the Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 Political Action Committee is endorsing for County Commissioner and County Prosecutor in the upcoming November 2018 County elections?
IS IT TRUEÂ in the past current County Prosecutor Nick Hermann and former County Prosecutor Stan Levco both received endorsements from the Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 Political Action Committee? Â … in the past whoever received the political endorsements from Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 Political Action Committee were elected County Prosecutor?
IS IT TRUEÂ we are told that it’s reasonable to expect that whoever receives the political endorsements for Vanderburgh County Prosecutor by the Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 Political Action Committee chances of then being elected to this position will be greatly be enhanced?
IS IT TRUE that everyone expects that former Vanderburgh County Sheriff Mike Duckworth will receive the unanimous endorsements for County Commission by the Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 Political Action Committee? Â …we have been told if County Commision candidate Jeff Hatfield receives the political endorsements for Vanderburgh County Commissioner by the Evansville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #73 Political Action Committee it would drastically improve his chances of being elected to this position?
IS IT TRUE we are really surprised that County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave is leading Mayor Winnecke in the vote count in our non-scientific but trendy “Readers Polls” after two days? …today’s “READERS POLL” question is:Â If the Republican primary election for the Mayor of Evansville was held today who would you vote for?
IS IT TRUE that County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave recently held a big tickets political fundraiser at Wolf’s Barbecue restaurant?  …we been told that Commissioner Musgrave raised over $20,000 at this event?  …that the Democratic candidate for Vanderburgh County Commission Jeff Hatfield introduced Ms. Musgrave to those in attendance?  …we are impressed with Mr. Hatfield decision to introduce Ms. Musgrave because it shows that he can work across party lines?
IS IT TRUE that in spite of the City of Evansville spending $127 million on the Ford Center, receiving $13 million dollars from Old National Bank for renaming the Centre, subsidizing a hotel with nearly $30 million taxpayer dollars, and dropping another $50 million on a medical school that was supposed to have 2,000 students but really has a couple of hundred students? Â ….we are surprised that Evansville is still not a serious contender for big money conventions?
Todays“Readers Poll†question is: Do you feel that the local FOP endorsement of Stan Levco for County Prosecutor and Jeff Hatfield for County Commission will greatly enhance their chances of being elected to those positions?
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Commentary: Our Quarrels That Go Nowhere
Commentary: Our Quarrels That Go Nowhere
By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.comÂ
INDIANAPOLIS – The late Andy Jacobs Jr. had a problem with a certain kind of campaign rhetoric.
“Why do so many candidates have to say, ‘I will fight for you?’†he said to me once when we were shooting the breeze. “Why can’t they say, ‘I will work for you?’ Or, better yet, ‘I will work with you?’â€
John Krull, publisher, TheStatehouseFile.com
Andy – I’m going to use his first name because we were friends – was a wise man.
His wisdom was born of experience. In addition to serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for 30 years, he was a decorated veteran, a Marine who had been wounded in the Korean War.
Andy didn’t have a romanticized view of either combat or conflict. He wasn’t a pacifist. He knew there were times to fight and things worth fighting for – primarily when either his country or innocent people were threatened.
But the list of things to go into battle over didn’t extend to most causes of political disputes: tax cuts, program expansions, who claimed which piece of turf, who got which slice of the pie.
He was smart enough to know that a solution to a problem was almost always better than a “victory.â€
Solutions to problems don’t have winners.
More important, solutions to problems don’t create losers.
For that reason, solutions don’t foster resentment. They don’t plant the seeds for the next battle.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Andy’s words these days.
We now are locked in another campaign season in which political parties and political candidates do everything they can to pit American against American. Republicans and Democrats both are desperate for victories. They want wins.
Not solutions.
I’m not naïve about elections. They are designed to prod people to make choices, to pick party 1 over party 2, to choose candidate A rather than candidate B.
As such, they invite, even encourage, comparisons between the people running for office and where they stand on the issues. Elections are meant to foster debate about who we are, where we stand and where we want to go.
Nor am I blind to the fact that, when it comes to accessing government support, there often are billions of dollars at stake, reason enough for many people to succumb to temptation and forget or ignore their best selves.
Even so, some things should be beyond the pale.
It’s one thing to assert that someone is wrong or mistaken or misguided.
It’s another thing altogether to say that he or she is evil.
There is a world of difference between arguing, in good faith, over the solution to a common problem and asserting that, because a fellow citizen disagrees with one way or another to solve that problem, he or she is less than American.
Or that his or her views don’t merit consideration.
Or respect.
Because your neighbor doesn’t want to see millions of Americans to suffer without healthcare coverage doesn’t mean that he or she hates freedom.
Similarly, because another neighbor believes tax cuts will foster economic growth and create a prosperity that will benefit almost everyone, that doesn’t mean he or she is blind or insensitive to human suffering.
So many of the challenges before us call for collaboration rather than conflict.
Our task isn’t simply to foster economic growth or to extend health care to all Americans but to try to do both.
After all, the preamble to our Constitution doesn’t call for us to “provide for the common defense†or “promote the general welfare†or “ensure domestic tranquility.â€
No, it charges us to do all those things.
Our founding document pushes us to solve problems, not indulge in senseless squabbles. The Constitution prompts us to work with, rather than fight against, each other.
What we need now from our leaders are solutions, not winners, losers and a never-ending list of justifications to keep skirmishing.
Andy Jacobs understood that, better than most.
That’s why we sure could use his voice right now.
FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits†WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.