BEDFORD – On Thursday, July 20, Lawrence County Superior Court II Judge Bob Cline sentenced Cody Cassidy to 510 days at the Indiana Department of Corrections for violating his terms of probation.
Cassidy violated his probation by using methamphetamine and marijuana and failing to complete his Community Service obligations. He was also arrested on new charges in Morgan County.
The State of Indiana was represented by Prosecutor Samuel C. Arp II who argued for Cassidy to be sentenced to the Indiana Department of Corrections as opposed to the Lawrence County Jail.
Arp stated that the IDOC sentence takes the burden away from the Lawrence County taxpayer
and also opens up more rehabilitative programs for Cassidy.
Cassidy was arrested on Sunday, July 17, 2022, after a Bedford Police Department received a 911 call about an impaired man dancing in the roadway and walking in people’s yards in the area of 27th and H street.
When police officers arrived they found 31-year-old Cody Cassidy laying in the grass shirtless near a lamppost at the intersection of 27th and H streets. Cassidy told the officers he had nowhere to go and that he was going to stay in the area until Monday.
Police say Cassidy was impaired.
Cassidy told officers he was laying in the street to fix his injured shoulder.
Cassidy was detained after officers found a partial pill of Buprenorphine Hydrochloride and Naloxone Hydrochloride, a Schedule III controlled substance in Cassidy’s pants.
Cassidy was transported to the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department on charges of public intoxication, and possession of a controlled substance. He was sentenced by Judge Cline on October 13, 2022, to 545 days in jail. He was given credit for 13 days served and placed on probation for 519 days.
