Brian M. Young filed paperwork in the Pulaski County Clerk’s Office Wednesday morning officially resigning from the Pulaski County Council. He also withdrew from the November 8 General Election Ballot as a candidate for Pulaski County Council in District 3.
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Pulaski County Councilman Brian M. Young pleaded guilty to Level 6 Felony charges of voting outside precinct residence in a plea hearing before Special Judge Jonathan Forker in La Porte County Tuesday afternoon.
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A man accused of murder in the death of 11-month-old Mercedes Lain appeared in Starke Circuit Court Monday afternoon for a plea hearing.
Continue readingA Knox woman found to be in possession of 57 grams of meth was sentenced in Starke Circuit Court Thursday. Annemarie Armes, 48, was in a vehicle that was pulled over by police on June 4, 2018, when a police K9 reportedly alerted to the presence of methamphetamine.
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A Knox man will spend 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in a plea agreement to a Level 3 Felony charge of rape.
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A South Bend man will spend the next six months on probation after pleading guilty in Starke Circuit Court to a charge of possession of a narcotic as a Level 6 Felony.
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A North Judson man was sentenced this week after pleading guilty in a plea agreement negotiated between his attorney, Richard Ballard, and the Starke County Prosecutor’s Office.
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A Knox man who pleaded guilty to charges of dealing and possessing methamphetamine will serve time on work release.
Continue readingA former Starke County resident pleaded guilty to a charge of maintaining a common nuisance in a hearing in Starke Circuit Court Thursday morning.
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A man accused of rape in an incident at a Culver residence on July 3, 2017 was sentenced in Starke Circuit Court Wednesday morning.
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The sentencing hearing for child molesting suspect 34-year-old Adam Fritz was delayed in Starke Circuit Court after a proposed plea agreement was filed the day of the hearing.
A suspect in a rash of thefts in October of 2017 was sentenced in Starke Circuit Court Wednesday morning.
Two people were sentenced Wednesday morning in Starke Circuit Court.
Dallas Sheets, 19, of Knox pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the state to a charge of residential entry as a Level 6 felony. He admitted to entering his father and step mother’s house without permission and took a futon. The incident occurred on Sept. 19, 2017. Sheets was sentenced to 12 months in the Starke County Justice Center. That sentence was suspended to be served on probation. Sheets will have to complete all programs recommended by the Starke County Probation officers. If he violates his terms of probation, he will have to serve the remainder of his term in the Starke County Justice Center.
Defendant Jason Cooke appeared in Starke Circuit Court last week for a plea agreement and sentencing hearing, but Judge Kim Hall rejected the proposed agreement between Cooke and the State.
Cooke was arrested in October 2015 in an alleged robbery and beating of Sescoe Wireman of Knox at a home in the 100 block of East 500 South in Knox. Cooke is accused of hitting Wireman in the head and taking money, prescription medication, an Indiana ID card, and multiple credit cards from him. Wireman died following the alleged incident.
