Due to a health emergency, the Brown Bag Series performance from the Shade Tree Players has been cancelled. Please join us on Wednesday, October 23rd at noon at the Arts Council located at 318 Main Street in downtown Evansville for our next Brown Bag performance. There will be two performances in one! The Newburgh Dance Academy and Sean Holleran will split time in the gallery for our audience. If you have questions, please call (812) 422-2111.
Eight Mole Award Winners & Announcements Front-lined Event
By Scottie Thomas
On Monday, October 14th, 2013, City-County Observer hosted its Annual Mole Awards Luncheon to honor 8 individuals for their outstanding public policy and efforts to exhibit good public policy in our community. The event was held at Tropicana Evansville in Walnut Room A & B with a sell out crowd that was represented by a cross-section of people of all political persuasion. The Corporate Sponsor was Torian, Hofmann, Dillow & Flittner Insurance.
Pigeon Township Trustee Mary Hart, State Senator Vaneta Becker, City Councilman John Friend, Honorable Judge Brett Neimeier, Honorable Judge Wayne Trockman, Ben Trockman and Matthew Burkart were the seven individuals that received honors and their ‘Mole’ Award.
A surprise and special ‘Mole’ Award was given to President and City Councilwoman Connie Robinson for her outstanding leadership for Councilwomen this year. The Master of Ceremonies for the event was Editor-in-Chief Joe Wallace. The Invocation was performed by D-Patrick General Manager Tony Ricketts.
Wallace also made the major announcement that we will be carrying state legeslative news and videos of state committee and board meetings.
Wrapping up another season in good public policy, community happenings and local politics, City-County Observer had the huge turn out to honor those highlighted.
DATE: October 15, 2013
SUBJECT: Area Business Break-Ins/Arrest
RELEASE NUMBER: 2014-NR-066(A)
CONTACT: Lt. Doug Daza
AUTHORITY: Sheriff Eric Williams
The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a second person in connection with several burglaries to area businesses. Brick Bruce Phillips was arrested yesterday on a warrant for two counts of Burglary and two counts of Theft. Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s detectives obtained the warrant following an investigation into burglaries that occurred at Mulzer’s Crushed Stone and United Minerals properties in Vanderburgh County. On October 8th, Sheriff’s detectives served a search warrant at the residence of Steven Vile and arrested him on similar charges.
The investigation by the Sheriff’s Office continued and Phillips was developed as a suspect. An interview of Phillips resulted in a confession to the crimes as well as an admission of participation in the theft from the Highland Baseball Club. Phillip’s cooperation led to the recovery of several off-road vehicles stolen from the Highland Baseball Club. Vile, while initially uncooperative, gave a statement to Sheriff’s detectives implicating himself and Phillips in the burglaries at Mulzer’s in both Vanderburgh and Warrick County, United Minerals and the theft from the Highland Baseball Club. Sheriff’s Detectives were able to recover more stolen property based on information provided by Vile.
Phillips is currently in the Vanderburgh County Detention Center on a $5,000/$50,000 cash/surety bond awaiting a court appearance.
Brick Phillips, 37 YOA, Henderson, KY
Burglary Class C Felony (2 Counts), Theft Class D Felony (2 Counts)
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The Evansville Police Department will be hosting an 8 hour “Responding to Church Crisis” training course for area religious leaders. The training will be presented by Sgt. Darren Sroufe of the Evansville Police Department. Sgt. Sroufe also serves as a Police Chaplin.
Some of the topics discusssed will included Vulnerability Assessment, Staff Awareness, Crisis Communcation, Police Reponse, and Recovery After a Crisis.
The training will be held at the National Guard Armory on October 16th from 8:00am-4:00pm. The only cost to attend is a canned good to help the EPD “SWAT out Hunger”. All donations will go to the Tri-State Food Bank.
There is no requirement to pre-register.
For full details, view this message on the web.
Evansville Police have arrested the second suspect in an October 4th armed robbery case.
Shun Webster was arrested on Monday night and is in the Vanderburgh County Jail.
Police believe Webster and Bryan Lewis robbed Ricardo Irvine after Irvine gave the men a ride. Lewis is in custody on this robbery and the robbery/ shooting of Walter Ferguson.
Christopher McKinnon                   Theft-Class D Felony
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Brandon Parker                   Dealing in Cocaine-Class A Felony
Possession of a Synthetic Drug or Synthetic Drug Lookalike Substance-
Class A Misdemeanor
Dalton Swanson                   Criminal Confinement-Class B Felony
Intimidation-Class C Felony
Criminal Mischief-Class BÂ Misdemeanor
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Steven Vile                            Burglary-Class B Felonies (Two Counts)
Theft-Class D Felonies (Two Counts)
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Terry Hanna                         Intimidation-Class D Felonies (Three Counts)
Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanors (Two Counts)
Failure to Stop after Accident Resulting in Non-Vehicle Damage-Class B
Misdemeanors (Two Counts)
Failure to Stop after Accident Resulting in Damage to Unattended
Vehicle-Class B Misdemeanor
Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated-Class C Misdemeanor
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Arthur Jones IV Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Attempted Murder-Class A Felony
Attempted Robbery Resulting in Bodily Injury- Class A Felony
For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at KPhernetton@vanderburghgov.org
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Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Local Law Enforcement Officers from around Indiana participated in the annual Tip-A-Cop Day that raised $13,962. The grand total is expected to rise to more than $15,000 as two restaurants have yet to report their totals.
Who: Special Olympics Indiana (SOIN), local Law Enforcement Torch Run officers, and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (Red Robin International, Inc.), Plainfield Police Department, Porter County Sheriff’s Office, Schererville Police Department and multiple Indiana State Police Districts
What: Local law enforcement traded in their handcuffs and badges for gourmet burgers and aprons at Red Robin® restaurants in Indiana as part of the national Tip-A-Cop event benefitting Special Olympics. Law enforcement across the U.S. helped collect tips and serve Red Robin restaurant guests from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday.
When: Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Where: All ten Indiana Red Robin® restaurants. Special Olympics Indiana was excited to have the Superintendent of the Indiana State Police, Douglas G. Carter participate at the Clay Terrace location. (SEE ATTACHED PHOTO OF SUPERINTENDENT CARTER AND GUESTS)
(Locations: Carmel, Carmel-Clay Terrace, Fort Wayne, Noblesville, Plainfield, Evansville, Mishawaka, Valparaiso, Schererville, Merrillville-Hobart)
Event Day Results: Officers raised a grand total of $13,962 across the state in one day. The grand total is expected to rise to more than $15,000 as two restaurants have yet to report their totals.
ABOUT SPECIAL OLYMPICS INDIANA
Special Olympics Indiana is a not-for-profit organization that provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in more than 20 Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, reaching more than 11,000 athletes across Indiana. Special Olympics Indiana is part of the international network of accredited Special Olympics Programs that reaches nearly 4 million athletes with intellectual disabilities worldwide.
ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT TORCH RUN
Tip-A-Cop® is part of the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run® (LETR) campaign. LETR, which includes an international series of relay runs and special events like Tip-A-Cop®, is presented by more than 144,000 law enforcement officers worldwide to help raise money and public awareness for Special Olympics. LETR is the largest grassroots fundraiser and public awareness vehicle for Special Olympics through which funds raised go directly to local programs in states or countries where the funds are generated.
CONTACT:
Duchess Adjei, PR & Marketing
Special Olympics Indiana
317-260-9553
dadjei@soindiana.org
Stephanie Stewart, Community Partnerships (LETR)
Special Olympics Indiana
317-508-2373
sstewart@soindiana.org
Food stamps, unemployment benefits and social security payments could be delayed for days if the US suffers a debt default, an alarming prospect given that an EBT card outage which lasted for just hours on Saturday caused mini-riots and looting at several Walmart stores.
Should the US enter a post-debt ceiling economy on Friday, “payments to Medicare and Medicaid providers, unemployment benefits, Social Security checks and tax refunds would be postponed for one to four days,†reports the Washington Post, citing a Bipartisan Policy Center report.
This means that food stamps set to be distributed on October 25 would be delayed until at least October 30, and nearly $60 billion in Social Security checks could be delayed by two weeks.
Judging by the reaction to Saturday’s EBT card glitch, which prompted “mini-riots†and looting after just hours, a food stamp freeze lasting for days would threaten even more widespread unrest.
Food stamp-style debit cards stopped functioning on Saturday after a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. Although the problem was fixed by the evening, the temporary outage caused a “mini-riot†at a Walmart in Philadelphia, Mississippi, prompting managers to close the store.
Walmart spokeswoman Kayla Whaling said the financial impact of the “mini-riot†was still being assessed and that the company was working with police to identify the culprits. Customers staged the disturbance before walking out “with groceries that hadn’t been paid for,†reports the Clarion Ledger.
EBT card holders in Louisiana also ransacked local Walmart stores in an attempt to exploit temporarily unlimited credit balances.
“Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits,†reports KSLA. “The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.â€
One woman attempted to steal $700 dollars worth of groceries despite the fact that she had a balance of just $0.49 on her EBT card.
“As this small EBT card glitch clearly demonstrates, if given half a chance, many EBT card holders will immediately engage in the mass looting of food and supplies as long as they can get away with it,†writes Mike Adams. “This was not one or two isolated people; this involved masses of people who spontaneously transformed into a rampaging mob of looting maniacs that ransacked a private business and caused huge losses in stolen goods and displaced inventory.â€
If a relatively minor EBT card glitch that lasted just hours caused looting and “mini-riots†at several Walmart stores, what will the consequences be of a five day hold on food stamps?
If lawmakers and the White House fail to strike a deal that will temporarily raise the debt ceiling before the end of this week, we’re about to find out.
Source: InfoWars
