VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES
Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, August 19, 2013.
Mario Butler Dealing in a Schedule IV Controlled Substance-Class C Felony
Alanna McNeal Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated Endangering a Person with a
Passenger Less than 18 Years of Age-Class D Felony
Donald Robb Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Serious Violent Felon-
Class B Felony
Battery Resulting in Bodily Injury-Class A Misdemeanor
(Habitual Offender Enhancement)
Eric Toone Dealing in a Schedule III Controlled Substance-Class B Felony
Possession of Marijuana-Class A Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to D Felony Due to Prior Convictions)
Possession of Paraphernalia-Class A Misdemeanor
Fabian Bennett Felony Carrying a Handgun-Class C Felony
Possession of Marijuana-Class A Misdemeanor
(Habitual Offender Enhancement)
Ukuru Stell Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Serious Violent Felon-
Class B 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
Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
On Tuesday, October 01 at 6:30 p.m. a Candlelight Vigil will be held to kick off Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Vigil will be held at Four Freedoms Monument in Downtown Evansville to honor victims and survivors of domestic violence and to raise awareness of the growing problem in our community and in the State of Indiana.
The vigil is being organized by the Evansville-Vanderburgh Commission on
Domestic and Sexual Violence in collaboration with Albion Fellows Bacon Center, the YWCA, Holly’s House, Lampion Center and the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office Victim/Witness Assistance Program.
In the last year, several local women have died in alleged domestic violence incidents. In 2012, 64 people died in the state of Indiana due to domestic violence. As part of an alarming national trend, Albion Fellows Bacon Center and the YWCA, both local domestic violence agencies, report that domestic violence continues to increase locally. This increase significantly affects the safety of women in Evansville and the surrounding area.
This crime is a community issue. Community representatives will speak out at the candlelight vigil and encourage our community to step up and do their part to help end domestic violence as well as remind victims where to receive services and find assistance.
For further information on this event or services from any of the aforementioned organizations, please contact Kyle Phernetton, Director of Public Relations with the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at kphernetton@vanderburghgov.org.
Troopers Recognized at Ceremony
Last week ten Indiana State Police officers were recognized in Indianapolis by Superintendent Douglas Carter for their resolute dedication and appointment to the department’s Underwater Search Rescue/Recovery Team (USRT). The scuba team members had recently completed their six month probationary period as divers and received their uniform pins from Superintendent Carter, designating them as USRT members.
Superintendent Carter addressed the new diver’s with heartfelt emotion and respect. The superintendent started his diving career with the state police in 1986 when he attended the state police Basic Underwater Dive School (BUDS). The superintendent recalled completing the school the hardest thing that he had ever done and respected the divers for their dedication to the program.
The state police BUDS program started in 1960 with 14 men that were sent to a six day scuba school. The program his since evolved into a 24 day school where more than 25 dives are completed combined with 40 hours of classroom work.
USRT Commander Sgt. Alan Lowrance commented that the divers leaving the BUDS program today are well equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to safely navigate the often dangerous waters of public safety diving. Public safety divers often dive in less than ideal conditions including zero visibility and entanglement hazards, commented Lowrance.
Today the state police have 35 divers on the USRT stationed around Indiana to respond to various types of water related incidents including evidence recovery, drowning, and swift water rescue.
New divers
Tpr. Caleb Clark – Peru
Tpr. Christopher Lockman – Seymour
Tpr. Richard Clay – Pendleton
Tpr. Eric Meyer – Wolcottville
Tpr. Andy Cochran – Warsaw
Tpr. Ryan Royer – Lafayette
Tpr. Adam Duffitt – Kokomo
Tpr. Zachary Smith – Henryville
Tpr. Matthew Lazoff – Hudson
Tpr. Skyler Whittington – Pendleton
“1964” …The Tribute coming to Victory Theatreâ€
“The best Beatles tribute on Earth,†according to Rolling Stone magazine. 1964…The Tribute has been captivating Beatles audiences since the early 1980’s, catapulting fans back to Beatlemania with their replication of the classic Beatle sound, look and stage presence. With over twenty years of performing experience, 1964…The Tribute has become one of the most recognized tributes to the Beatles era in the country.
1964… The Tribute in Evansville, IN will feature the following performers: Mark Benson, Graham
Alexander, Tom Work, and Bobby Porter.
Victory Theatre
600 Main St.
Evansville, IN 47708
Friday, October 4, 2013 at 8:00 PM
INFO: Tickets go on sale Friday, August 23 at 10:00 AM (Central). Tickets may be purchased at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/05004B0F891343C7, by calling 800.745.3000 or by visiting the Ford Center Ticket Office at 1 S.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Evansville, IN 47708 between the hours of 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Central), Monday – Friday.
Indiana State Police Investigate Fatal Crash on I-64
Posey County – Monday afternoon, August 19, at approximately 12:25 p.m., Indiana State Police and Posey County Sheriff’s Department responded to a single vehicle crash on I-64 at the 4 mile-marker that killed a 69-year-old Kansas woman and her pet dog.
Preliminary investigation revealed Edwina Cabe, 69, of Overland Park, KS, was driving her 2002 Chevrolet pickup truck westbound on I-64 at the 4 mile-marker when for unknown reasons her vehicle left the roadway on the south side striking the guardrail then crossing both westbound lanes striking the north side guardrail. The vehicle then crossed both lanes again striking the concrete barrier and coming to a final rest in the passing lane. Cabe, who was wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Posey County Coroner’s Office. Cabe’s pet dog was also killed in the crash.
The investigation is continuing.
IS IT TRUE August 20, 2013
IS IT TRUE August 20, 2013
IS IT TRUE the Winnecke Administration has submitted a budget for 2014 for the City of Evansville to the Evansville City Council in the amount of $307 Million of spending?…it was just a few short years ago that the City budget was crossing the $200 Million figure for the first time?…if memory serves this writer correctly the last Weinzapfel budget was in the range of $220 Million making this 3rd budget submitted by Mayor Winnecke roughly 40% higher than the budget he inherited?…these budgets of course do not include giant capital projects like the Ford Center or the hotel that the Winnecke Administration wants so badly to grant $37.5 Million to HCW of Branson, MO to build?…The Fire Chief has requested a 19% raise for his executive secretary, which would make her 1 of 3 people that has parity on the Fire Department?…The other 2 are the Fire Chief & Asst Fire Chief?…the firefighters union just voted down the contract offered by the City by a margin of 166 to 46?…if not for the appearance of excess in spending for frivolous games projects and the 16 person expansion of the Water and Sewer Department staff maybe these firefighters would have been more open to the City’s offer?
IS IT TRUE that the Facebook page called “Citizens of Evansville against a Taxpayer funded Hotel†is tonight reporting that the artwork they created for the page has been stolen by those who oppose what the page has to say?…the post announcing the theft of the artwork reads as follows?
“The opposition for my fanpage against the subsidized hotel has stolen our artwork, the cover page and profile picture, and is using it for their own fanpage!!! They deliberately stole it, with the exception of a few words to show that they support the hotel. This really upsets me! Go ahead and provide your own information and take a stand, that’s fine. but to take someone’s artwork behind our back is unethical and copyright infringement. First they steal our public funds for a private business and now they steal our artwork! I hope this shows how unethical they really are! I’m fuming right now! I have done fan pages and tons of artwork before and created this fanpage with help from others, 4 admins currently, and never had this happen before. ahhhh!!!! I feel like punching a wall.†Phillip Schutz
IS IT TRUE the Facebook site goes on to show an exact copy of the artwork used by “Citizens of Evansville against a Taxpayer funded Hotel†that has been repackaged into another Facebook page that is certainly confusingly similar that is called “Citizens of Evansville for a new downtown convention hotelâ€?…I have seen both of these sites with my own eyes and if this were a trademark infringement case the people who did this would be on the losing end of an expensive lawsuit and may be subject to criminal prosecution?…seeing this happening in real time is like being a customer in an establishment that is being robbed?…this ranks up there ahead of digging through opponents garbage to count beer cans or destroying campaign signs both of which have been alleged in recent elections?
IS IT TRUE if the supporters of the hotel would do what any person or entity that is applying for a grant would have to do they would not have to resort to ripping the opposition’s artwork off?…if they could explain how the Mayor can claim the hotel will create 250 jobs when the report he paid $105,000 for says the number will be 41 they may not be needing to steal someone else’s intellectual property?…thus far this whole hotel attraction process has been marred with the same brainless unvetted antics that the Earthcare Energy fiasco and the McCurdy Hotel tragedy were?…the new motto of the City of Evansville should be changed to “if you can’t VET, lie, cheat, and stealâ€?…whichever side you may be on in this discussion this is a new low in Evansville politics?…this one is even worse that the Opus One Christmas party at the CVB or the after council meeting boozefest in downtown Evansville paid for by an Indianapolis lobbyist?…this time some heads should hang in shame, but it is doubtful they will have the presence of mind to even know they have destroyed a young person’s belief that being active in civic matters can make a difference?…a pox on all who participated.
VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES
Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday, August 16, 2013.
Derrick Collins Theft-Class D Felony
(Habitual Offender Enhancement)
Laquita Crenshaw Operating a Motor Vehicle after Forfeiture of License for Life-
Class C Felony
Neglect of Dependent-Class D Felonies (Two Counts)
Floyd Stevison Operating a Motor Vehicle after Forfeiture of License for Life-
Class C Felony
Operating a Vehicle with an ACE of .08 or More-Class C Misdemeanor
Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated-Class C Misdemeanor
Brandon Humphry Operating a Motor Vehicle after Forfeiture of License for Life-
Class C Felony
Dealing in Marijuana-Class D Felony
Possession of Marijuana-Class D 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
Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
DANGER! CONSTRUCTION ZONE AHEAD!
Each year lives are lost in construction zone crashes nationwide. Construction zone workers are struck by vehicles passing through the zones and vehicle occupants are killed most often in rear end collisions that occur when traffic begins to slow or stop. This danger has become all too evident most recently in northwestern Indiana. On July 31 and again on August 15 traffic was slowed or stopped in a construction zone or construction zone back up when, on both occasions, a semi crashed into the rear end of a passenger car pushing it into the rear of another semi and killing the occupants of the passenger car. In the August 15 crash, seven people died including four children seven years of age and younger. The primary cause of both tragic incidents-DRIVER INATTENTION.
While these most recent tragedies happened in northwestern Indiana, such crashes can happen anywhere. Drivers must follow the direction of construction zone signs to include speed limits and lane restrictions. But most of all, drivers must PAY ATTENTION!! Construction zone crashes can be reduced by following these tips:
1. PAY ATTENTION!! When you observe signs indicating a construction zone is ahead, prepare to reduce your speed to observe construction zone speed limits, make lane changes as directed by signage, and be alert for vehicles ahead of you slowing or stopping. Remember, back-ups can occur miles from the actual construction zone.
2. Make appropriate lane changes IMMEDIATELY upon seeing signs indicating a particular lane will be closed ahead. Although traffic will be moving slower, by observing this traffic control device immediately, bottle necks can be reduced or avoided thus reducing the likelihood of traffic coming to a complete stop.
3. As drivers enter a construction zone or construction zone back up, keep a significant distance between your vehicle and the vehicle ahead.
4. Watch traffic in your rearview mirror as it approaches from behind and be alert for possible escape routes ie, shoulder of the roadway, ditch, or median should vehicles approaching you from the rear appear as though the may not be slowing down or may not be able to stop before striking your vehicle in the rear end.
5. Be alert for workers in the construction zone and give them as much room as possible while traveling through the zone.
6. Avoid distracting behavior in construction zones. Stay off your cell phone, don’t look away at construction work, avoid eating or drinking while traveling through construction zones, and STAY ALERT!
As annoying and inconvenient as construction zones can be, our nation’s roadways need to be maintained to allow for safe travel and the movement of interstate commerce. By staying alert at all times, observing the signs and other traffic control devices, taking your time, and being tolerant of other motorists, construction zone crashes and the serious injuries and fatalities that often result can be greatly reduced.
Storage Wars – Part 1
 RAIDers of the Lost Ark
by Jason Dowd, www.pinncomp.com
Data is the center of the IT universe. Users and devices generate it, applications process it, networks transfer it, and storage – well – stores it.
One trend in storage which seems established beyond question is that our appetite for it is growing exponentially. For example, the Square Kilometer Array, a radio telescope array being deployed in South Africa and Australia and slated to be fully operational in 2016, is expected to generate so much data that the traffic on its private fiber network will be twice that of the present day Internet.
As another example, connectomics researchers estimate that a map of all the connections in just one human brain will require 1 exabyte of storage. That’s one million terabytes. Or, if you prefer, one billion gigabytes.
And that’s for just one brain!
But more down to earth examples are readily available in just about every organization we talk to. From ever growing email databases, to automated meter reading initiatives in power companies, to web intelligence initiatives, to regulatory archival requirements, to IP camera video surveillance storage requirements, we see companies with storage capacities that only a few years ago seemed like more than they would ever need scrambling to add additional capacity.
The typical IT storage capacity planning process.
Fortunately, storage technology is keeping pace with these demands, but it is also rapidly evolving. This series of articles will take a look at how it has evolved to this point, where we are now, and give you some
idea of where it looks like we are headed over the next few years along with some specific recommendations for getting your organization there.
This particular article will focus on some history which lays the groundwork for our discussion of present and future technology in our upcoming installments.
The crucial first step in the evolution of modern storage began in the 90’s when servers needed more storage capacity than they could get from a single hard drive, either because drives of that size simply didn’t exist or weren’t economical. The obvious solution was to add more than one hard drive to such a server, but this didn’t always cut it. While the storage capacity might have been enough, often times the server needed to see its storage capacity as a single drive which could store a database, for example, that couldn’t be split up across multiple drives.
Adding additional hard drives to a machine also increased the odds that at least one hard drive in the machine would fail in the same way that flipping three quarters greatly increases the odds of getting at least one tail.
RAID is the technology that solved both of these problems. Standing for “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disksâ€, RAID allows users to put a number of relatively inexpensive and not necessary very large drives of the same storage capacity into a single machine, but present a very different picture of the hard drive configuration to the operating system running on the machine.
RAID is configurable in a variety of ways, but the most popular configuration for RAID in those days was RAID Level 5, or just RAID 5 for short. As an example, RAID 5 can configure any numbers of physical hard drives to appear to the operating system as one logical drive, but with a catch. Using a formula that will sound immediately familiar to any fan of “Raiders of the Lost Arkâ€, the logical drive presented to the operating system will be the size of the sum of all the drive capacities, but then take back the capacity of one drive.
The RAID 5 capacity formula explained in detail.
That “missing drive†is not being sacrificed to the God whose server this is, but is actively being used by the RAID array to store redundancy information, or “parity†as it is known in the industry. Should one drive of the array fail, it’s no big deal. The operating system and applications running on it will keep right on humming along none the wiser while the failed drive is replaced. The array will then rebuild itself using the new drive.
It is this capability both for expanding storage using relatively inexpensive drives and providing fault tolerance that made RAID 5 so popular. All of the “smarts†required to make it work are taken care of by a device known as a RAID controller. RAID controllers are usually dedicated hardware devices in the machine that simply replaced the more common – and considerably less smart – traditional hard drive controllers.
However, some operating systems actually have the capability to perform RAID in software. This is something that should be avoided like leech infested waters. The only reason I mention it is because we still occasionally see machines configured this way by individuals who think they are being very clever, but are really just creating an accident waiting to happen.
Anyway, RAID 5 is great in that it can handle a single drive failure, but in the event of another drive failure prior to the replacement and rebuild, that is all she wrote. Fortunately, this isn’t very likely. Unfortunately, there were so many servers in the world even then that it was bound to happen occasionally. We’ve been unfortunate witnesses to several such events including one at a local bank that no longer exists. To make matters worse, they quickly found out that, in spite of what their backup software was telling them, they hadn’t actually backed up the server to tape for months.
The result? Data loss, which is pretty much the worst thing that can happen in IT. A University of Texas study found that small businesses that had suffered a major data loss had only a 6% survival rate over the next two years. That’s a rather sobering statistic.
We refer to incidents like this as “Resume Generating Eventsâ€, and such events have led to the wide deployment of hot spares in an attempt to further minimize such catastrophic scenarios. Basically another drive in the machine will sit completely idle until a drive in the array fails when it will be activated and the array rebuilt immediately.
As a final layer to the RAID cake, it is worth pointing out that the storage pool created by a RAID controller doesn’t have to be used as a single, large logical drive. Instead it can be carved up into smaller logical drives that will appear to the operating system as separate disks. And in this way, the separation between logical and physical drives is complete.
While RAID arrays really do offer significant advantages, they also present clear and present dangers for the unwary. Pull the wrong drive out of the machine when attempting to replace a failed one? Disaster! Pull more than one drive out of the machine? Disaster! Misconfigure the array controller? Disaster! And so on. Unfortunately, these disasters are much more common in small companies where the server admin is likely someone who has a “real†job and only dabbles with the server because somebody onsite has to.
Did you just pull the wrong drive?
The reason for going over all of this is that RAID still plays a very prominent role in modern storage environments. Different RAID levels, separation of physical and logical drives, and hot spares ready to fire up at a moment’s notice are all part and parcel of any modern storage architecture. Indeed, many organizations still use exactly the type of configuration we have described here. Such deployments are generally used by small, single server companies or by larger companies for small branch office servers. For larger deployment though, Storage Area Networks (SANs) are the order of the day, and it is to this