An Evansville burglary that disabled home security systems led a state lawmaker to draft legislation that would criminalize the manufacturing, selling, and use of jamming devices.
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The state’s efforts to combat high tech crimes brought Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council members, law enforcement and public officials together at Indiana State University earlier this month, as they heard about the recent successes of the state’s High Tech Crimes Units.
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The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis was interviewed by FBI agents last year after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop,” the bureau said Friday. Authorities also released the names of the eight victims late Friday.
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A man with a mental disability who has for years claimed he was wrongfully convicted of an Elkhart murder and who spent more than 15 years behind bars can proceed to a new trial after the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a post-conviction relief order vacating his murder conviction.
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The dismissals highlight the risks of Trump’s emergency surge strategy: an unprecedented flood of arrests that has produced headline-grabbing numbers but faltered under judicial scrutiny.
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms, an escalation of his military deployment that makes good on a directive issued late last week by his defense secretary.
The questions came fast to the mayor of the nation’s capital, many of them designed to get her to say something harsh about Donald Trump — in particular, the president’s freshly announced plan to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and call in the National Guard.
The Republican governor’s statements came on the heels of a string of shootings involving youth in the city’s core, including one on July 5 that killed two minors, and just before Indianapolis hosts WNBA All-Star Weekend.
Chief Chris Bailey said IMPD will also seek “stay away orders” meant to keep people who have been charged with violent or disorderly crimes out of downtown.
A decade after Indiana overhauled its criminal code to reduce incarceration, lawmakers approved more than a dozen new crimes and sentencing enhancements.
The owner of Rock Lobster and other bars is the second owner charged as a result of an investigation that began with 10 Broad Ripple establishments.
The myth has reduced accountability for young people who break the law in Indiana and across the country.
Family members, a determined coroner and state researchers are behind a renewed effort to identify all of the unknown dead whose remains are among some 10,000 bones and fragments unearthed on Herbert Baumeister’s suburban Indianapolis property.
Investigators are hunting for any clues about what may have driven Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to assassinate former President Donald Trump. The FBI said Sunday it was investigating the assassination attempt as a potential act of domestic terrorism.
More than 500 people — some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime rings — have been charged with gun trafficking and other crimes under the landmark gun safety legislation President Joe Biden signed two years ago Tuesday.
After a year in which youth homicides hit a high in Indianapolis, the city’s Office of Public Health and Safety is adding staff with a focus on prevention.
Cybercriminals used Yunhe Wang’s network of zombie residential computers to steal “billions of dollars from financial institutions, credit card issuers and accountholders, and federal lending programs since 2014,” according to an indictment.
Evansville-based Old National Bank disclosed Monday that it has placed its chief financial officer, Brendon Falconer, on leave. Falconer was charged last week with two counts of felony child molestation.
Murdaugh was convicted a year ago of killing his younger son Paul with a shotgun and his wife, Maggie, with a rifle. While he has pleaded guilty to dozens of financial crimes, he adamantly denies he killed them and testified in his own defense.
The violence took place near the intersection of Illinois and Maryland streets, in the vicinity of numerous restaurants and other businesses.
The Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission voted unanimously to revoke a liquor license extension for 11:11 Bar & Grille on the city’s far-east side.
A new provision in House Enrolled Act 1047 makes the distribution of unauthorized and undisclosed “intimate” images generated or altered by AI a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.
Two men were sentenced to a combined 44 years in prison for their roles in a string of armed robberies at Indianapolis businesses in the summer of 2020.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and officials involved in the city’s gun-violence-reduction strategy held a press conference Thursday to announce progress two years into their three-year $150 million plan.