A hit and run accident was reported on U.S. 30 near Oak Road at approximately 6:23 p.m. ET. One vehicle involved in the incident continued traveling east on U.S. 30. A deputy located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop on Jarrah Road north of 5th Road. The officer noted that the driver, identified as Omer Trent, appeared intoxicated.
A woman called the Marshall County Dispatch Center to report that a man, identified as Shawn Amor, had reportedly attempted to have unwanted sexual contact with her the previous morning. Investigators applied for a search warrant at the trailer in question and later arrested Amor on a charge of Attempted Rape, a Class B felony.
He was booked into the Marshall County Jail with a bond set at $20,000.
A Starke County man was arrested after a pursuit incident that spanned two counties.
Early this morning, a Starke County detective was patrolling around 1100 East and 700 North just north of Koontz Lake when he recognized the driver of a black pickup as Julius Novitzke. Novitzke was known to be wanted on an active Starke County Circuit Court Warrant for Possession of Methamphetamine.
A traffic stop was attempted but Novitzke failed to stop.
Marshall County Sheriff’s Department Captain Dan Butt asked the commissioners for approximately $32,000 to be added to the prisoner meals line item in the sheriff’s budget. He asked the council to take some money out of the General Fund and the CAGIT fund to be used to fund this request and the council denied that. They suggested transferring approximately $30,000 into that line item for now which will be done within the sheriff’s budget. Captain Butt told the council that more money will be requested as they are about $82,000 short to fulfill the needs at the jail in terms of meals.
The driver, Glenn Linderman, was pulled over near the intersection of Glenn Overmyer Drive and State Road 17 for multiple traffic infractions. Linderman was reportedly found to be operating a vehicle with a suspended driver’s license.
The burglary was reported in the Creek Side Trailer Park just south of Lapaz. An extensive investigation was conducted by a Marshall County Sheriff’s patrolman which lasted throughout the day.
Evidence collected led to the arrest of James N. Spiegel on preliminary charges of Burglary Entering a Dwelling, a Class B felony, and Theft, a Class D felony. Spiegel is being held in the Marshall County Jail on a $5,000 cash bond.
A Saturday night traffic stop resulted in the arrest of three people.
Marshall County police received information that Lacy Holzwart, 24, would be in the LaVille area and she was known to have active arrest warrants against her. A traffic stop was initiated on a vehicle in which she was a passenger and during the traffic stop a substance believed to be methamphetamine was found in the vehicle. Holzwart was arrested on two active arrest warrants for Dealing a Narcotic Drug as a Class A and a Class B Felony, plus an arrest warrant for Conspiracy to Deal in a Narcotic Drug, a Class A Felony, and for Possession of Paraphernalia.
A Culver man was injured in a two vehicle accident in Marshall County Wednesday night.
Tracy McDaniel, 45 of Knox, was stopped at a stop sign on 13th Road preparing to travel westbound over State Road 17 onto State Road 8. McDaniel then entered the intersection and struck a pickup driven by Jonathan Schmidt, 40 of Culver.
According to Marshall County Sheriff’s Department deputies, Schmidt attempted to avoid a collision but could not. Schmidt was transported to the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Plymouth for a rib injury.
Three people were injured after a two vehicle accident Thursday morning on Lincoln Highway west of Pioneer Drive in Marshall County.
Marshall County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to the area where they found 30-year-old Cordelia Baxter trapped in her vehicle. She had to be extricated from her vehicle by the Plymouth Fire Department. Her two-year-old daughter received a laceration to her forehead. They were transported to Memorial Hospital in South Bend to receive treatment.
Marshall County deputies arrested a man wanted on a warrant out of Fulton County late Tuesday night.
Officers were responding to a call of a suspicious vehicle that was parked in the parking lot area of the Marathon Station located near the intersection of Queen Road and U.S. 30. Deputies identified Seth Houin and he had an active arrest warrant out of Fulton County. As police were searching his vehicle for impound purposes, they found controlled substances in the car.
Officers from the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department were involved in a standoff late Wednesday night with a suicidal subject.
The officers were asked to perform a welfare check on a person residing in the 7000 block of 11A Road in Plymouth. The man had reportedly contacted a suicide hotline and expressed a desire to harm himself. When officers from the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department and the Argos and Bourbon Police Departments arrived at the scene, they found a man armed with a gun. The officers were then involved in a standoff with the man.
Marshall County police are looking for the driver involved in a single vehicle accident Friday morning.
Deputies have determined that the unknown driver was traveling east on the Plymouth-Goshen trail east of King Road when for unknown reasons, the driver lost control and the vehicle went off the southside of the road and struck several trees.
Three juveniles were injured in an afternoon accident in Marshall County.
Emergency responders and Marshall County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at Kenilworth Road and 17th Road just south of Argos. The preliminary investigation suggests that the juveniles were traveling north on Kenilworth Road when their Jeep ran off the road and rolled several times.
Three people were arrested Tuesday after a traffic stop conducted by officers from the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department.
A traffic stop was conducted at Skylane Drive and Michigan Road at about 11:49 p.m. ET and an investigation found methamphetamine-related material within the vehicle.
Eighteen-year-old Shayna Polley, 29-year-old Kyle Stiles and 29-year-old Justin Felix, all of Plymouth, were arrested on meth-related charges. The three were booked into the Marshall County Jail.
During the course of the traffic stop, a K9 unit was requested at the scene. K9 Arras indicated the presence of narcotics inside the vehicle. When the officer searched the vehicle a substance believed to be methamphetamine was found along with drug paraphernalia.
Dennis Bell of Winamac was arrested and booked into the Marshall County Jail on a preliminary charge of Possession of Methamphetamine. His bond was set at $3,000.
Marshall County ranked ninth in the state for most labs seized with 42.
At approximately 2 p.m. on Friday, patrolman Bryant with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of U.S. 31 and 12th Road after he witnessed a vehicle traveling 83 mph in a 60-mph zone. The patrolman then learned that the driver, China Swift, was operating the vehicle on a suspended driver’s license.
Bryant then requested assistance from patrolman Jeff Sharp and Plymouth Police officer John Weir. Weir’s K9 partner, Jax, indicated the presence of narcotics in the vehicle and a search was conducted, turning up marijuana and paraphernalia in the purse of Minequa Toliver. She was arrested and transported to the Marshall County Jail for the offense.
