Walkerton Woman Sentenced to Ten Years in DOC

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Courtney Owens
Courtney Owens

A Walkerton woman was sentenced in Marshall Superior Court after admitting to possessing heroin in her apartment located in Culver.

She pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of heroin within 1,000 feet of a housing complex. She was sentenced by Judge Robert O. Bowen to ten years in the Indiana Department of Corrections on that charge. Owens was additionally sentenced to a year-and-a-half in prison on a charge of neglect of a dependent in an unrelated case. The sentences will run concurrently, or at the same time, and she was ordered to undergo intensive drug treatment in the purposeful incarceration program.

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Knox Police Recover Stolen Car, Make Two Drug Arrests

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A woman from Walkerton faces multiple felony charges following an arrest Friday by officers from the Knox Police Department at Taco Bell. Courtney Owens, 25, was reportedly driving a car that was reported stolen to the Knox Police on Wednesday, Oct. 30. In addition to a felony auto theft charge, she’s also facing charges of dealing a substance represented to be a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia. Officers also arrested Ryan Anguiano, 21, of Plymouth on a misdemeanor possession of marijuana charge. Both are jailed in Starke County pending arraignment. The incident is still under investigation. Officers from the Knox Police Department are still looking for one other male in connection with the stolen automobile.