- The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a serial burglar believed to be responsible for a series of commercial burglaries reported within the northern area of Vanderburgh County as well as Gibson County. Mr. John David Heusmann was taken into custody this afternoon and charged multiple counts of Burglary and Theft.
On February 08 the Sheriff’s Office investigated a report of a commercial break-in at the property of Cambridge Golf Course. A maintenance building located at 801 Schroeder Road had been broken into and multiple tools, equipment, firearms and an all-terrain vehicle were taken. On February 09 the Sheriff’s Office investigated a report of a commercial break-in at Mans Excavating located at 20400 Old State Road. A perimeter fence had been cut through and a construction trailer broken into and equipment taken.
Using evidence collected from the crime scene at 20400 Old State Road, the Sheriff’s Office was able to develop Mr. Heusmann as a suspect. A search warrant for Mr. Heusmann’s residence at 12720 County Road 200E in Gibson County was obtained. The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office and the Gibson County Sheriff’s Office conducted a search of Mr. Heusmann’s residence and recovered much of the stolen property. Additional items that were recovered from Mr. Heusmann’s residence had been reported stolen during recent burglaries in Gibson County.
Mr. Heusmann was taken into custody at his residence and denied any involvement in the burglaries. The Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate Mr. Heusmann’s activities and additional charges may be possible.
ARRESTED:
John David Heusmann (pictured above), 37, of Haubstadt. Burglary as a Level 5 Felony (2 counts), Theft as a Level 6 Felony (2 counts), Theft of a Firearm as a Level 6 Felony, Criminal Mischief as a Level 6 Felony
Picture above: Crime scene at Mans Excavating.
North Side Serial Commercial Burglary Suspect in Custody
A POST TO THE EDITOR FROM ClassyEvillepolitics
A Comment From Classykvillepolitics We Felt Worth Re-posting.
Feb 9, 2016 at 12:18 pm
Dear CCO Editors
I agree completely with you in regards to the City Council meetings needing to continue to be verbatim.
If Miss Mosby decides as President to encourage such an action, I would hope the City Council takes an actual vote on this. I find it to be the epitome of sneagal for such a decision to be made by the President only.
Furthermore, I would encourage readers to note that ALL the major Councils, Boards, and Commissions in Evansville and Vanderburgh County do verbatim transcription of their meetings. I find it to be an extremely bad precedent for the City Council to suddenly make this type of operational change after just a few public meetings.
For the record, the Open Door Law requires (per Indiana Code 5-14-1.5-4(b)) that memoranda of meetings be maintained:
As the meeting progresses, the following memoranda shall be kept:
(1) The date, time, and place of the meeting.
(2) The members of the governing body recorded as either present or absent.
(3) The general substance of all matters proposed, discussed, or decided.
(4) A record of all votes taken, by individual members if there is a roll call.
(5) Any additional information required under Indiana Code 5-1.5-2-2.5 or Indiana Code 20-12-63-7.
Part of what the Open Door Law covers are the recordings of the meeting. A public agency such as the City Council is withing the “spirit†of the Open Door law by using recordings of the meetings,
Furthermore, the City Council is NOT legally obliged to transcribe verbatim the tape recording. The Open Door Law’s memoranda requirements do not require a verbatim transcript of a meeting, and the Access to Public Records Act does not require a public agency to create a record that it is not legally required to create.
In conclusion, I would like to know the actual reason that Miss Mosby has suddenly pounced on the change from transcribed to just using the audio files. Audio only files are hideous for a variety of reasons, least of all that if a person does not properly use the microphone, then what they said is lost.
AG Zoeller To Testify Before U.S. House Subcommittee
WHO:
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller
WHAT:
Testify before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
WHEN:
Thursday, Feb. 11, 1 p.m. ET
WHERE:
U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
2128 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
WHY:
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller will testify before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit tomorrow in opposition to new rules proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would preempt state authority to regulate small loan lending and consumer access to credit.
Zoeller says the CFPB’s proposal will create a vast regulatory framework at a national level that would constrict the small loan market and force Hoosiers in need of small loans to turn to less scrupulous offerings.
YESTERDAY-“Haynie Dayâ€
Mayor William Dress (left) sits next to George W. Haynie during “Haynie Day†on May 19, 1937. The location was the Woods Drug Store at the junction of Second Street, Parrett Street, and Adams Avenue. The event celebrated the re-opening of the store, which had been heavily damaged by a major flood earlier in the year. Haynie, who was nicknamed the “Mayor of Goosetown,†operated a pharmacy on the site from 1886 to 1928, when he sold the store to H. A. Woods. Today the area is still known as Haynie’s Corner.
FOOTNOTE: We want to thank Patricia Sides, Archivist of Willard Library for contributing this picture that shall increase people’s awareness and appreciation of Evansville’s rich history. If you have any historical pictures of Vanderburgh County or Evansville please contact please contact Patricia Sides, Archivist Willard Library at 812) 425-4309, ext. 114 or e-mail her at www.willard.lib.in.us.
Complaint Alleges Misappropriation Of Civil Forfeiture Proceeds
Complaint Alleges Misappropriation Of Civil Forfeiture Proceeds
by Marilyn Odendahl for www.theindianalawyer.com
Charging Indianapolis law enforcement is illegally keeping millions of dollars from civil forfeitures, a national legal organization filed a complaint Wednesday in Marion Superior Court to stop the flow of proceeds into city coffers.
The Institute for Justice, a national organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, filed the lawsuit on behalf of three Indiana couples. It claims that the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, the city of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department are dividing the civil forfeitures funds among themselves rather than forwarding the money to the public schools as required by Article 8, Section 2 of the state’s constitution.
“Each year, hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of private property – even millions – is the subject of civil-forfeiture actions in Marion county courts, but police and prosecutors have sent not a single penny of civil-forfeiture revenue to the common school fund in at least the last five years,†the complaint states.
The plaintiffs are asking the state court to issue a permanent injunction preventing the agencies from keeping any forfeited property or proceeds from its sale. If the court denies that remedy for relief, the plaintiffs ask that the defendants be prohibited from retaining any more than their actual costs related to the civil forfeiture action.
In addition, the parties are requesting an award of nominal damages in the amount of $1.
The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office did not return messages seeking comment.
The complaint details the practice of forfeiture funds being split 30/70 between the prosecutor’s office and the police, respectively. During 2011 and 2012, the lawsuit alleges, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office kept an average of $459,848 each year out of an average of roughly $1.5 million that was awarded annually from forfeiture actions.
Indiana’s Civil Forfeiture Statute allows police and prosecutors to deduct the costs associated with the civil forfeiture proceedings before the money is sent to the common school fund. However, the lawsuit asserts the diversion of funds violates the “plain text†of the Indiana Constitution which “requires that ‘all’ forfeitures – not ‘some’ forfeitures – be sent to the school fund.â€
Moreover, the complaint maintains Indianapolis police and prosecutors are interpreting the Civil Forfeiture Statutes incorrectly.
“Under this mistaken reading of the law, police and prosecutors retain staggering sums from forfeiture proceeds by wrongly characterizing them as reimbursement for ‘law enforcement costs,’†the lawsuit stated. “Rather than accurately represent to the courts the amounts needed to cover their actual costs in forfeiture cases, the Defendants have reached agreements among themselves to parcel out all of the property they seize and forfeit.â€
The complaint, Jeana M. Horner, Dennis Jack Horner, Jennifer K. Thompson, et al. v Terry R. Curry, Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, Consolidated City of Indianapolis/Marion County, et al., 49D06-1602-PL-004804, was filed in Marion Superior Court, Civil Division 6.
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