Lyndi rounds up the news from the past 24 hours for the evening of Tuesday, August 26, 2014, and it has been a HUGE one…enjoy!

Topics covered include: Semi wreck in Wayne County hospitalizes driver and passenger; a big Rocky Branch protest continues in Saline County and one so far has been arrested; terrible wreck on U.S. 50 at the county line of Richland and Clay ties up traffic for hours; the Mt. Carmel Police Department gives a report on recent arrests; and the Olney city council will vote on siting a medical marijuana facility in the vicinity of Walmart DC tomorrow at 4 p.m.

Front view of the semi involved in the wreck.

CLAY/RICHLAND COs.—Illinois State Police have issued their report on the major accident the occurred on U.S. 50 at the Clay and Richland counties line in the late morning hours.

The three-vehicle accident, which happened due east of Clay City, closed U.S. 50 for around three and a half hours yesterday (Tuesday, August 26, 2014) following the 11:26 a.m crash.

ISP stated that a vehicle driven by Kathleen Voigt, 43, of Noble, was  westbound on 50 when for unknown reasons, it crossed the center line and struck an eastbound semi-truck head-on, the truck being driven by James Kane, 52, of St. Louis.

Immediately after this, a pickup truck driven by Shannon Williams, 36, of Flora, which was following the Voigt vehicle, ran into the back of the Voigt SUV.

Injured in the accident were Kathleen Voigt and a passenger in her vehicle, Cierra Burgener, 23, of Noble; they were transported to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, with serious injuries.

Another passenger in the Voigt vehicle, 1-year-old James Franks, was transported to Clay County Hospital in Flora, with minor injuries.

Two passengers in the Williams vehicle received minor injuries: Deserea Sheppard, 25, of Ward, Arkansas, and Lydia Nevels, also 25, of Austin, Arkansas. Sheppard was taken to Clay County Hospital in Flora; Nevels was taken to Richland Memorial Hospital in Olney.

The investigation into the collision is ongoing.

Scene of the accident.

Olney mayor Ray Vaughn

OLNEY, Ill.–A reconvened Olney City Council meeting was held two days after the last Monday meeting of the month, which was at 4 p.m. today (Aug. 27). At this meeting, mayor Ray Vaughn let the public know that they were there to discuss an ordinance which would authorize a development agreement with Delta 9 Global or related party for 17.36 acres on Shipley Road in Olney.

Once again several members of the audience spoke to the council on their standpoint of having a medical marijuana facility in Olney. This time there were more people that stood strong on the facility being built and felt that it would be very beneficial. Vaughn allowed several people to speak; with the limited agenda and the input from the public, the meeting was a little over an hour long.

Vaughn wrapped up the public comments and then a few of the council members spoke on how they felt it would be a good opportunity and idea for the facility to be in Olney. The council then voted and unanimously approved the facility.

To get the full story of the council approving the medical marijuana facility be sure to pick up a copy of Disclosure on stands September 9 or subscribe to the e-Edition and see it September 8 online. The current issue—August-September 2014—has the big row from the late July city council meeting; be sure you pick up a copy of that issue at MotoMart or Marilyn’s Liquor Cabinet in Olney, so you won’t miss a thing in these interesting developments!

Lyndi brings you another busy audio presentation of the Nightly NewsCap for the evening of Wednesday, August 27, 2014…all 13 minutes 51 seconds of it!

Topics covered include: Danny Coston’s appeals argument heard in Mt Vernon yesterday; Cindy Stearns gets sentenced in the killing of her father in Williamson County; names released in yesterday’s U.S. 50 wreck; Edgar County Watchdogs plugged on Reboot Illinois; sad anniversary of the plane crash that killed Paris pilot Rusty Bogue a year ago today; Tina Williams finally arrested in Hardin County; former Carbondale teacher Jordan McGuire exonerated in Evansville sex trial; and the Olney city council approves siting of a medical marijuana facility after a short meeting this afternoon.

LAWRENCE CO.–Preliminary reports are that there has been a rollover vehicle accident that occurred at approximately 11:05 a.m., in Lawrenceville just two miles north of Westport on Route 33. A helicopter is currently on scene as there are injuries, with a report of one person that was ejected from a vehicle, that have been sustained due to the wreck. How many persons injured at this time are unknown.

There was a report of entrapment, but when personnel arrived on scene the entrapment report was disregarded. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department and EMS are currently on scene.

Keeping checking back as information becomes available to us.

With everybody off tending to prep for the next print version, guess who gets to do the ‘cap tonight??? ME! And so here’s your Nightly NewsCap for the evening of Thursday, August 28, 2014!

Topics covered include: Rollover accident this morning in the Westport area of Lawrence County; big parole bust in Harrisburg this morning nets a couple of locals; Illinois State Police warn of upcoming Labor Day holiday patrols looking for the “Big Four” of traffic violations; and Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing our Environment (SAFE) gets ready for the IDNR rules for fracking, which are introduced tomorrow.

Once again, the specter of Orders of Protection and Stalking/No-Contact Orders has reared its ugly and menacing head in the pages of Disclosure…in particular, on the back page, and disguised as something a lot more appealing than ugly.

The big back page story this month originated in White County with one of those sex assault cases that lil Ricky White messed up by his mere presence in: The case of Jeffery David Casillas, which was litigated earlier this summer in a jury trial, and, largely because of ‘Special Agent’ Rick White’s reputation for not quite getting it right, Casillas walked…because he refused an interview with the sawed-off little ISP ‘investigator.’

But it took off quickly from the Casillas angle and devolved into something that Disclosure is very impassioned about: The abuse of Orders of Protection.

As regular readers know, I was the subject of a frivolous OP issued by my late stepfather as a way to create pressure on our guardianship case with our granddaughter Ev in 2011. Across the nightmare ordeal, which ended early this year (February) when Judge Robert Hopkins issued an opinion basically outlining that an individual couldn’t take out an OP against a newspaper simply for what they wrote about that individual, we examined other OPs and found that they were equally as frivolous, and, fortunately, the frivolous ones didn’t stand.

However, when you have a judge who just doesn’t care about the First Amendment—or any other amendments, apparently—you’re going to have a problem.

And that’s our back page story that’s being featured in our noontime Read the Lead, OP: Dangerous case law set by radical judge in Franklin County.

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Yes, that’s a judge. Yes, she still looks like that. Yes, looks can be deceiving.

FRANKLIN/WHITE COs.—Dangerous case law may have been set by an irrational and irresponsible judge in a Franklin County Order of Protection case.

The situation arose after an Enfield woman, Kendra Carter, issued concerns to a board supported in part by public funds about one of their employees, Tina Gaither Casillas, a woman who is also paid in part by public funds, which makes her a public official and thus open to criticism about the performance of her job.

Following the concerns, issued in the form of Facebook messages or other electronic communication, Casillas, who lives in Franklin County, took out a Stalking/No-Contact Order (OP) against Carter, based solely in the exchange of information Carter began with board members, many of whom she was familiar with, as she has been a fundraiser for CASA, the victim’s advocate group for which Casillas works (CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates, a group formed in 1985 to be a voice for children who are victims of crimes; it is a national group supported by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and is funded not only on tax dollars in the form of grants, but by fundraisers/donations).

On August 5, the OP was granted Casillas on a technicality…something that never should have gotten past the “emergency” order status it was given when it was filed July 16, as the communication between Carter and the board was limited strictly to on-the-record performance, as well as a documented court case.

That court case, however, is the crux of the matter: It was that of David Casillas, 28, of White County, who was charged last year with a child sex assault count after his young stepdaughter went to an aunt and informed her that Casillas was molesting her.

Tina Casillas

Casillas was arrested and spent eight months in jail awaiting trial, which he won, largely because he refused to be interviewed by the investigator in the case, Rick White.

During the course of that trial, Tina Casillas, his stepmother, was caught lying under oath on his behalf.

It was this action, as well as a 35-page DCFS report which indicated that David Casillas was a “high-risk threat” for child sexual abuse, that prompted Carter to issue her concerns to the CASA board, as a citizen and as a long-time fundraiser for the group.

And yet judge Melissa Morgan (formerly Drew), despite the fact that the OP was filed improperly by Tina Casillas and despite the fact that Carter has a First Amendment right to have taken her concerns up the chain of command through CASA as she did, granted the onerous OP…

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WHITE CO.— Special prosecutor Mike Valentine has announced he has decided to re-try a Carmi man who is accused of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse involving a four-year-old female.

Phillip Lowery, 40, is also a corrections officer at the city-county jail and has been on administrative leave since 2012 pending the final outcome of the case.

During the first trial April 11, the jury deliberated for nearly 12 hours before the judge in the case realized a unanimous verdict could not be reached and a mistrial was declared.

Lowery took the stand in his own defense and jurors heard him testify that his wife had been a babysitter for the four year old for more than two years, but that he was never alone with the little girl.

“It was Lowery’s word against the word of a (now) seven-year-old who testified about abuse that allegedly took place when she was three or four,” said the source. “The jury just heard tough facts, there was no confession or anything like that.

State’s attorney Denton Aud called in Valentine as a special prosecutor due to Lowery being an employee of the county.

Lowery is due back in court September 25 and a new trial date is expected to be set at that time.

After one of the wildest news weeks in a long time, we got kind of a break today…but we still have some great headlines, so here’s Lyndi with the Nightly NewsCap for the evening of Friday, August 29, 2014!

Topics covered include: Philip Lowery is getting re-tried on child molestation charges in White County; man suspected of being the Marshall bank robber nabbed in Ohio; autopsy results on man found deceased in Flat Rock last week.

WHITE CO.— Authorities have confirmed they have rescued a Carmi woman who they believe may have fallen at the city dam last night.

“It appears she may have been there all night,” said Sheriff Doug Maier.

Maier said a call had come in to the sheriff’s department last night but nothing was located.

“We are not sure if that call is connected to this case or not,” the sheriff said.

Maier said it appears that Amy Chitwood, approximately 38 years of age, had stumbled and fallen on the rocks at the dam and when she fell, injured herself to the extent she could not walk.

The sheriff said Chitwood may have been suffering from a broken hip.

“She was LifeFlighted out to an area hospital,” Maier said. “He injuries do not appear to be life threatening.”

WHITE CO.— A Grayville man has been reported injured following an early morning crash on Illinois Route 1 at Interstate-64, south of Grayville.

According to Illinois State Police Sergeant Mark Zimmerman, Seth A. Schmittler, 22, was southbound on Ill. Rte. 1, this morning Monday, September 1, when the blue 1994 GMC Yukon truck he was driving left the roadway and struck a guardrail.

Schmittler was transported from the scene by the Edwards County Ambulance Service to an Evansville, Ind., hospital.

The extent of Schittler’s injuries have not been made available.

The vehicle was towed from the scene by Rick’s Towing of Grayville.

Zimmerman said that Schmittler was cited for Improper Lane Usage and Texting While Driving.

Here’s Lyndi, rounding up the headlines from over the weekend (August 29-31) and today, September 1, 2014, with your Nightly NewsCap!

Topics covered include: Stranded Amtrak train makes news (and makes for some uncomfortable passengers) in Carbondale Friday; Amy Chitwood falls at Carmi’s Little Wabash River dam; and texting and driving wreck in White County on Interstate 64.

WHITE CO. (Carmi), Ill.—The man responsible for notifying authorities of what was initially believed to be a body (later discovered to be the very-much-alive but injured Amy Chitwood) at the Little Wabash River dam in Carmi Sunday spoke to Disclosure later that evening about the situation…and what impact it had on him

Bruce Merritt, 50, has lived in Carmi for a couple of years. Originally from Chicago, he told Disclosure that he’d “never encountered anything like this before,” even coming from the big city and settling in little Carmi, population 5,200.

Approximate area of the Little Wabash River dam just north of Carmi where all this occurred

Merritt said he was fishing on Sunday morning, August 31, as he frequently does. At about 10:20 or so, he hadn’t gotten any bites above the dam site, so he decided to get closer to the dam.

Walking the bank, he said he turned around and “saw something that didn’t look normal for being down there.”

Merritt said he just stood and stared at the object, for what seemed like a really long time.

“It seemed like 20 minutes,” he told Disclosure, “but it was more only like about five, that I stared at it, trying to figure it out. Then I saw an ear. And then as I looked I figured out it was a person, all balled up in a fetal position.”

Merritt said it was his immediate assessment that whoever the person was, it “looked like they’d been down there for a long time. They were completely covered in mud.” A little up the river, he said he could see a pewter-colored Dodge truck “kinda buried in the mud.”

Merritt said he was about 12 feet away from the “body,” and that the mud in the area was about two feet thick. Knowing that recent rains had caused the river to rise, and then in the last days of August, the river had gone down, Merritt said he believed right away that it might’ve been a body that had come to rest on the bank after the water had gone down. So he grabbed his gear and ran up the bank and to the first house he saw, and had the resident notify authorities while he went back to the riverbank. The situation was tense, as there have been a number of women reported missing in Illinois and Indiana in recent months, with several of them never having turned up.

Merritt said it took about 20 minutes for authorities to arrive. He stood by and talked to them intermittently while they worked with the “body.”

At the point in time when one of the white body bags was being zipped up, that’s when authorities saw the bag move…and they figured out that it wasn’t a “body” at all, but a still-alive woman.

A helicopter was summoned, and authorities took the woman up the bank and managed to get whom they later identified as Amy Chitwood out of the riverbank and to a hospital.

Merritt said he was never told anything about the Dodge truck; authorities kept asking him if the truck was his (it was not). He also said that they took his name and phone number and said he could “come back and get his gear,” but he’d already gotten it out of there.

Now, Merritt said, the incident, which has left him somewhat traumatized, has adversely impacted his fishing in a considerable way. He told Disclosure he’s disinclined to fish at all, and especially at that locale (near the dam), ordinarily a great spot.

“I usually catch catfish and filet em, and give them to an elderly lady who lives across the street from me,” he said. “Not now. Not for awhile. This was eerie. I can’t get it out of my head.”

Chitwood’s condition wasn’t immediately available, but authorities yesterday said that she was recovering, with an injury to her hip that apparently was sustained when she fell on the rocks in the dam area.

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It’s been a somewhat quiet news day, but Lyndi has the ‘cap for it: your NewsCap for the evening of Tuesday, September 2, 2014!

Topics covered include: Bruce Merritt interviewed about having found Amy Chitwood on the Little Wabash Sunday; and an arrest made in a stabbing occurring during Gravyille Days.

In just two weeks, it will be the two-year anniversary of when Ed Hataway disappeared at age 61, from his home just outside of Olney.

In that amount of time, the investigation has stalled, despite submission to the Richland County state’s attorney’s office telling where Hataway’s remains would be found; despite the family staying silent upon admonitions from Illinois State Police investigator Tim Brown (and despite the fact that the family has KEPT silent, regardless of the inaccurate accusations Brown has leveled); and despite the abundance of information available to point to likely suspects and likely motives.

In the two years, Disclosure has featured many articles on situations surrounding the discovery of the body, the probate case the four Hataway brothers were embroiled in, the backstory of the lead investigator in the case and the search of the Texas home of one of the brothers.

Now, new information submitted by sources close to ISP has been published by Disclosure, one of the only area media outlets to keep the Hataway story in front of the public, since the trail seems to have gone cold and no law enforcement authorities are apparently willing to act upon what they already know. Here now is the big front page article in the August-September issue, New details in Hataway death case, your noontime Read the Lead:

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Ed Hataway

RICHLAND CO.—September 16, 2014 will mark two years since anyone saw the late Ed Hataway alive.

And as the month of September arrives, there have been no developments whatsoever regarding a suspect in what authorities are calling Hataway’s death: a murder.

Hataway, 61, disappeared in the evening hours of that Sunday in 2012, and local authorities (City of Olney and Richland County) didn’t take his disappearance seriously, despite family claiming that it wouldn’t have been characteristic of him to leave without notifying anyone—family or friends—of his whereabouts.

It wasn’t until more than a week later that Hataway’s brother John and John’s girlfriend, Anita Scott, were able to get Illinois State Police involved; then, in early November 2012, the Richland County prosecutor’s office, having received a letter about the location of Hataway’s body in neighboring Lawrence County, caused a search to be conducted, and the skeletal remains were found north of U.S. 50 near Red Hills State Park.

Since that time, despite the homicide determination, no discernable movement has been made in the case.

However, many revelations have occurred in the two years, with two primary ones taking front and center: the probate case of Opal Hataway as it involved her four sons, Ed and John and their brothers, William Robert (Bob) and Daniel Hataway, and the seeming ignoring of that case by the lead investigator, ISP’s Tim Brown out of District 12 in Effingham.

And now, Disclosure has learned of incidents that have occurred in recent months, having to do with both the probate, and with Brown’s seeming lack of concern with how Ed Hataway met his demise.

ISP sources: ‘Look at the probate’

Regular readers will recall that following Disclosure’s July and August 2013 detailed coverage of the Opal Hataway probate—in which John and Ed Hataway were made executors of the estate, a position for which both Bob and Dan Hataway were jockeying—Brown accused Anita Scott of “feeding” information to this publication.

In point of fact, Illinois State Police sources were the ones who, in early 2013, advised Disclosure of the pending probate case and urged the publication’s staff to study the probate documents closely, as they might lead to clues as to why what happened to Ed Hataway happened, in particular, the fact that the day after Ed Hataway’s disappearance, there had been a scheduled court date to discuss transferring of executorship from Ed and John Hataway to Dan Hataway. Neither Scott, nor John Hataway, were responding to queries for comment on the probate case at that, nor any other, time.

Disclosure staff studied copies of the file for at least three months before putting a three-part series together for the Summer run of papers in 2013.

Upon publication of the probate case, however, Scott herself contacted Disclosure to advise what Brown had done when the material was revealed and questions were posed in print.

Scott said that on July 16, 2013, Brown called her and accused her of “feeding information to the media.” Upon issuance of this statement, she said, he then threatened her with obstruction of justice.

“Early in the investigation,” Scott told Disclosure, “he even advised me that I could quit my job, investigate the murder and then he wouldn’t have to investigate it.

“Right then he played his cards,” Scott said. “He had not been to the courthouse to review the probate file.”

Scott said that she doubted Brown knew of the existence of the file at all, meaning he was not investigating anything regarding Hataway’s murder with any serious intent.

OP issued during probate

During the pendency of the probate, things got so heated among the brothers that an Order of Protection had to be filed by Ed and John Hataway and Scott against Bob and Dan Hataway, this in 2005 (which material was covered thoroughly during the course of the three-part series).

The estate was not a large one, but accusations of mismanagement….

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 7:30 AM

From HTNDaily

VINCENNES – Vincennes City Police arrested a Lawrenceville woman on a warrant for drug related charges.

At 9:37 AM Tuesday, Vincennes City Police found 39-year-old Angela June Shoulders in the 600 block of Busseron Street. According to police, Shoulders was wanted on Knox County Superior Court I warrants for possession of methamphetamine and resisting law enforcement. Shoulders is being held on $5,000 bond for the arrest.

She is also being held on $3000 bond in an unrelated Knox County Superior Court 2 Case.

Regular readers will recall that Ms. Shoulders turned up claiming she was “homeless” just recently, in this article also covered by HTNDaily.

When anyone will be doing anything meaningful with Ms. Shoulders and her proclivities remains up for debate at this time.

Clark Kirkman mugshot

JEFFERSON CO. (Mt. Vernon), Ill.—A 72-year-old man’s alleged attempt to increase his income by visiting a bank with a note was brought to an abrupt end Friday in Mt. Vernon, Illinois after the old guy was observed switching license plates on his car from Texas.

Clark Kirkman was the guy in question, who caught the attention of shoppers at Times Square Mall in Mt. Vernon August 29 when they watched him back his car into a parking space, then proceed to switch an Illinois plate off a vehicle and replace the Texas plate on his car with it.

Authorities were notified, and detectives from the Mt. Vernon police department actually watched as Kirkman sat in his car and appeared to be writing out a note of some sort.

It wasn’t just any note; it was a bank robbery/holdup note, which the detectives quickly ascertained when they approached Kirkman in his vehicle.

They also soon learned that Kirkman is a federal felon, out on parole, for bank robbery…and is a suspect in a Chandler, Arizona, robbery one week earlier.

Why all the bank robberies lately? Who knows. Times are getting harder. Or maybe Kirkman liked it in federal lockup so much that he just wanted to get back; the FBI is investigating all these circumstances surrounding Kirkman, and locally, he’s been charged with Attempted Bank Robbery as well as felony Theft (the license plate). He’ll likely be extradited if Arizona authorities can pin that robbery on him…taking one more alleged lawbreaker off Illinoisans’ hands.

U.S. DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT, Ill.—The U.S. District Court (federal) system has been busy lately resolving several cases that involve locals, including a Mt. Vernon nurse sentenced for prescription drug abuse, and an Olney man found guilty of cheating the system while in the Richland County Jail.

LOCAL NURSE SENTENCED FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE

Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on September 3, 2104, Amber Jennings, 29, of Mt. Vernon, Illinois was sentenced to a term of three years’ probation. The two-count indictment alleged that Ms. Jennings obtained a controlled substance by fraud, misrepresentation and deception. At her plea on September 3, 2014, Jennings admitted to having a long history of drug and alcohol abuse which lead to the theft of prescription drugs from her workplace.

The investigation in this case was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration Office of Diversion Control. The case was handled by Assistant United States Attorney Ranley Killian and Special Assistant United States Attorney Michael Hallock.

PRISON INMATE CHEATS TAXPAYERS OUT OF MEDICAID FUNDS 

Christopher Spivey, from a May 21 post on his Facebook page.

Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on September 3, 2014, Christopher Spivey, 30, pled guilty to submitting false and fraudulent bills in relation to personal assistant services in the Home Services Program, a Medicaid Waiver Program designed to allow individuals to stay in their homes instead of entering a nursing home. The investigation determined that Spivey was submitting bills claiming to care for the customer while he was incarcerated in Richland County Jail in Olney, Illinois.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General and the Illinois State Police’s Medicaid Fraud Control Bureau. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Liam Coonan and Special Assistant United States Attorney Michael J. Hallock.

MT. CARMEL, Ill.—Mt. Carmel, Illinois, police have issued their arrest report for the past week, and some new names are appearing in this latest round.

The following subjects were arrested by the Mt. Carmel Police Department. All subjects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Dustin I. Fisher, age 18, of Mt. Carmel was arrested September 2, 2014 after he was observed entering vehicles not belonging to him.  Fisher was arrested and charged with burglary to a motor vehicle and criminal trespass. Fisher was transported to the Wabash County Jail where he is being held pending the posting of bond.

Also on Sept. 2, Erica D. Coram, age 37, of Panama City, Florida was arrested after she was stopped for a traffic violation. A records check indicated Coram was wanted on a Wabash County warrant for failure to pay child support fees. Coram was arrested and transported to the Wabash County Jail and held pending the posting of bond.

On September 1, 2014, Sione M. Militoni, age 33, of Mt. Carmel was arrested for DUI after he was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle parked in the 400 block of Cherry Street. Militoni was arrested and charged with DUI, illegal transportation of alcohol, and possession of a controlled substance. Militoni was subsequently transported to the Wabash County Jail where he is being held pending the posting of bond.

On August 31, Jack M. Brown, age 54, of Mt. Carmel was arrested for driving while suspended. Brown was stopped for having a suspended registration. A records check also revealed that Brown’s driver’s license was suspended. Brown was transported to the Wabash County Jail and charged with driving while suspended and cited for operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration.

Also on August 31, Phillip L. Lang, age 33, was arrested after he was observed operating a motor vehicle in the 300 block of W. 9th Street. Lang’s driver license is suspended. Lang was arrested and charged driving while suspended.  Lang was transported to the Wabash County Jail and held pending the posting of bond.

On Aug. 30, Quincy A. Jones, age 18, of Mt. Carmel was arrested and charged with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor. Jones was located in 200 block of W. 12th Street. Jones was arrested and transported to the Wabash County Jail where he was later released. 

Also on Aug. 30, Megan E. Phipps, age 19, of South Jasonville, Indiana, was arrested and charged with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor. Phipps was found in the 400 block of Poplar Street. Phipps was transported to the Wabash County Jail where she was later released.

Here’s Lyndi with a very busy Nightly NewsCap for the evening of Wednesday, September 3, 2014!

Topics covered include: First Financial Bank robbery in Farmersburg, Indiana, one of many; an old guy, out of the federal pen, allegedly attempts robbery of another bank, this one in Mt. Vernon, Illinois; Lawrenceville problem child Angela June Shoulders busted again in Knox County, Indiana; and two U.S. District Court cases are resolved, both of them involving locals.