BEDFORD POLICE OFFICER JESSE CRANE RECEIVED THE 2017 BEDFORD NOON LIONS CLUB OFFICER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING AND DEDICATED SERVICE. OFFICER CRANE WHO WORKS WITH HIS CANINE PARTNER MAXIMUS. CRANE WAS RECOGNIZED FOR HIS OUTSTANDING WORK IN CAPTURING A FELON THAT HAD CRASHED THE NSWC CRANE GATE AND APPEARED IN BEDFORD A DAY LATER. THE PERSON WAS APPREHENDED AFTER STEALING A CAR AND CRASHING INTO 3 POLICE CARS, THEN FLEEING ON FOOT. THANKS OFFICER JESSE CRANE AND MAXIMUS FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK BOTH ON AND OFF DUTY FOR THE COMMUNITY.

INDIANA STATE POLICE ARRESTED 37-YEAR-OLD GAVIN BROWN OF PAOLI ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES. BROWN, WHO SERVES AS PAOLI YOUTH FOOTBALL PRESIDENT WAS ARRESTED ON FELONY CHARGES OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AFTER HE ATTEMPTED TO OBTAIN NUDE PHOTOGRAPHS OF A 14-YEAR-OLD FEMALE JUVENILE IN EXCHANGE FOR NUDE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIMSELF. DETECTIVES PRESENTED THE CASE TO THE ORANGE COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE AND THE SUPERIOR COURT ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR BROWN. BROWN TURNED HIMSELF INTO THE ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND WAS ARRESTED ON THE FOLLOWING CHARGES; POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, DISSEMINATION OF MATTER HARMFUL TO MINORS AND INAPPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION WITH A CHILD. HE LATER BONDED OUT OF JAIL. HE IS SCHEDULED FOR A PRETRIAL CONFERENCE ON JANUARY 22, 2019 AT 9 A.M. IN ORANGE SUPERIOR COURT. HE IS BEING REPRESENTED BY ATTORNEY JOHN-PAUL ISOM. 

FORMER INDIANA UNIVERSITY STUDENT JASON COX WAS SENTENCED ON WEDNESDAY TO PRISON AFTER HE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIS THEN ROOMMATE IN THE FACE ON NOVEMBER 9, 2016. JUDGE KENNETH TODD SENTENCED COX TO THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF TWO AND A HALF YEARS IN PRISON. COX PLEADED GUILTY IN JANUARY TO CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS WITH A DEADLY WEAPON AND POINTING A FIREARM AT ANOTHER PERSON.POLICE WERE CALLED TO AN APARTMENT IN THE 500 BLOCK OF SOUTH JUNYA STREET, OFF PATTERSON DRIVE NEAR WEST THIRD STREET, JUST BEFORE 10 P.M. AFTER THE TRENTON KIRCHMEIER'S GIRLFRIEND CALLED POLICE TO REPORT THE INCIDENT. KIRCHMEIER WAS TRANSPORTED TO IU HEALTH BLOOMINGTON HOSPITAL, THEN FLOWN BY MEDICAL HELICOPTER TO IU HEALTH METHODIST HOSPITAL IN INDIANAPOLIS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. THE BULLET TORE THROUGH KIRCHMEIER'S MOUTH, SHATTERING HIS UPPER PALATE, KNOCKING OUT MULTIPLE TEETH AND SEVERING HIS LEFT CAROTID ARTERY. HE WAS RUSHED TO IU HEALTH BLOOMINGTON HOSPITAL THEN AIRLIFTED TO METHODIST HOSPITAL IN INDIANAPOLIS WHERE HE UNDERWENT EMERGENCY SURGERY. THE DOCTORS AND HIS PARENTS SAY IT WAS A MIRACLE HE SURVIVED - KIRCHMEIER LOST ALL OF HIS BLOOD THREE TIMES OVER. COX TOLD THE COURT THE ORDEAL BEGAN WHEN HE AND KIRCHMEIER DECIDED TO STAY HOME DRINKING AND WERE UPSET THAT DONALD TRUMP HAD BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT. ACCORDING TO THE GIRLFRIEND, SHE AND KIRCHMEIER HAD STEPPED OUTSIDE TO SMOKE A CIGARETTE WHEN THEY NOTICED, AS THEY LOOKED THROUGH A GAP IN THE WINDOW BLINDS, THAT COX HAD OUT A .40-CALIBER SMITH & WESSON HANDGUN, WAVING IT AROUND. COX TOLD THE COURT THAT HE AND KIRCHMEIER PLAYED A GAME WITH THE GUN WHERE THEY PRETENDED TO BE PARANOID ABOUT PEOPLE BREAKING INTO THEIR VEHICLES OUTSIDE. HE WAS POINTING THE GUN IN A JOKING MANNER AS IF KIRCHMEIER AND THIS GIRLFRIENDS WERE INTRUDERS. WHEN HE MOVED TO PULL THE GUN AWAY AFTER THE JOKE, COX TOLD THE COURT THAT THE GUN GOT CAUGHT IN THE BLINDS, BUT HIS HAND KEPT MOVING BACK ON THE TRIGGER. WHILE THIS WAS HAPPENING, KIRCHMEIER APPROACHED THE WINDOW AND WAS PEERING INSIDE. THERE WAS A GUNSHOT AND KIRCHMEIER HAD BEEN SHOT IN THE MOUTH, AND FELL TO THE GROUND. COX RAN OUTSIDE, APOLOGIZING, SAYING HE HAD NOT INTENDED TO FIRE THE WEAPON.

A HENRYVILLE MOTHER WAS SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON ON CHARGES STATING THAT SHE WAS HIGH ON DRUGS WHEN HER SUV COLLIDED WITH A FREIGHT TRAIN, KILLING HER TWO YOUNG CHILDREN. 29-YEAR-OLD ERICKA FOUCH OF HENRYVILLE PLEADED GUILTY IN A NEGOTIATED PLEA DEAL TO TWO COUNTS OF CAUSING DEATH WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE DRIVING UNDER INFLUENCE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AND ONE COUNT OF DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE DURING A HEARING IN CLARK CIRCUIT COURT IN JEFFERSONVILLE. THE JUDGE SENTENCED HER TO NINE YEARS ON EACH COUNT BUT SUSPENDED THREE YEARS ON THE SECOND COUNT. FOUCH HAS ADMITTED TO BEING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MARIJUANA AND METHAMPHETAMINE WHEN SHE TRIED TO BEAT THE TRAIN IN JUNE 2017 IN HENRYVILLE. THE COLLISION KILLED 5-YEAR-OLD ADALYN FOUCH AND 4-YEAR-OLD WYATT FOUCH.