Police: Man beat 7-year-old with belt
Police arrested a Brown County man for hitting a 7-year-old on May 28.
Richard Spivey, 37, was charged with domestic battery resulting in bodily injury to a person less than 14 years old, a Level 5 felony.
The victim’s mother said that she had been in the hospital, and upon returning to the home, had heard the child screaming upstairs. While she said that she and Spivey do spank children as punishment, this violence made her sick to her stomach.
Spivey had hit the 7-year-old at least 16 times with a belt, according to witnesses. Officers reported that the child had severe bruising on his leg and buttocks.
The children were moved to a relative’s house with their mother and Spivey was arrested. He later admitted to “whooping” the child because he had cut a wood countertop, the police report said.
Report: Indy man arrested after taking acid
Police arrested 18-year-old Noah June on May 30 after he had taken acid, stripped in Brown County State Park and hit a woman over the head, according to a police report.
June, of Indianapolis, had allegedly taken two hits of the capsule form of LSD and was babbling obscenities when police arrived. He was first spotted by a couple who had parked behind his gray Honda Civic at the park, the report said.
The couple saw June almost back his car into theirs, then said he started hitting and kicking a woman who was riding in the passenger’s seat. The couple drove the woman, who said she was fearing for her life because of the look in June’s eyes, to her home. They also said they saw June try to approach their car and then run off into the woods, flailing his arms, the police report said.
The victim had been hit over the head, causing a headache, and had injuries on her legs and left arm.
Police found June and another man in the park. June had taken his clothes off except for his underwear and had scratches all over his body from running through a brier patch, the report said. June and the other man were taken to Columbus Regional Hospital.
At the hospital, June received medication and an IV to calm him down, and both men eventually received clearance from the hospital. The other man’s mother was contacted and she came to pick him up, while June was taken to the Brown County jail.
June was charged on June 4 with public intoxication and battery, both Class B misdemeanors.
Officers investigate invasion of privacy
A local man is facing invasion of privacy charges after police say he went to the home of a woman who has a protective order against him and damaged her car.
Officers responded to a call May 21 to investigate the actions of Duran Morgan, 25, of Creamer Drive.
Morgan had allegedly driven to the woman’s house in a dark blue truck and rammed into her car, pushing it into the garage she had parked in front of. Morgan then got out of the truck and busted out her passenger side window and headlight with a bat, the police report said. Three witnesses confirmed the victim’s story.
The three witnesses and victim said that they yelled at Morgan to stop and he replied to one of them, “You’re supposed to be my friend.” Eventually, he did stop and drove off in the truck in an unknown direction, the police report said.
Officers investigated a tip that Morgan was parked by the railroad tracks near State Road 135 North and Railroad Road, but when they arrived, he was nowhere to be found.
The victim said she got a no-contact order against him after his release from Owen County Jail. He now faces charges of invasion of privacy, a Level 6 felony, and criminal mischief, a Class B misdemeanor.
Man charged with marijuana possession
A Nashville police officer was conducting a routine traffic stop on May 13 when he made a marijuana possession arrest.
Officer Cody Poynter was pulling the vehicle over because the owner, 51-year-old John Bock of Helmsburg Road, had a conditional license on an ID card only. While walking up to the driver’s side door, the officer immediately noticed a small bag of marijuana in Bock’s overalls pocket, his report said.
The officer asked Bock if he had marijuana on him and he said yes. Bock was placed in restraints while the vehicle was evacuated and searched. Nothing else illegal was found, and Bock received a citation for marijuana possession. All parties were released from the scene without issue.
Bock was charged June 3 with possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor.
Two arrested after altercation outside BP
Two people were arrested in Brown County on May 21 after a fight outside the BP gas station in Nashville.
Courtney Roberts, 24, of Columbus, and Richard Grubb, 43, of Bedford, were arrested on May 21.
According to a BP employee, the two victims, both from Brown County, were inside the store purchasing drinks when an SUV parked outside. The employee said the two victims, a man and a woman, thought it was unsafe to go outside with the SUV parked. However, they eventually left the store before the employee was able to contact the sheriff’s office.
Meanwhile, Roberts and a third member of the group exited the SUV and stood outside. Grubb, who was on the side of the building, met the two outside the front door and waited for the two victims to exit.
Once the two victims left the store, they were circled by Grubb, Roberts and a third man and pushed up against the outside wall. The third man began yelling at the female victim, and after a few seconds Roberts punched the man near his right ear.
The man tried to leave afterward, but was blocked by the third group member. Grubb then pushed the man and kicked his leg while Roberts knocked the woman’s drink out of her hand, the report said.
Eventually, the two victims moved away from the BP entrance, but the group continued to yell at them from across the lot. After the Nashville Police Department arrived, Grubb and Roberts were arrested on charges of battery resulting in bodily injury and taken to the Brown County jail.
Men charged in connection with robbery
Alfred Davis, 49, and Edward Cummings, 52, were arrested on March 14 after speeding into Nashville, crashing into the CVS parking lot and fleeing on foot. On May 22, they were formally charged in Brown Circuit Court.
The men, both from Memphis, Tenn., were swerving and speeding down State Road 46 East, according to one person who called the sheriff’s department. Officers began to chase their SUV, which at one point was going 136 MPH in a 50 MPH zone, according to a Nashville Police Department officer also in pursuit.
The SUV matched the description of a vehicle involved in a nearby robbery in Edinburgh, officers said.
They vehicle did not slow down once officers were in pursuit. Eventually, the car sped into the CVS parking lot, almost hitting multiple cars and striking two light poles as it drove over a curb and down a hill, the police report said.
A K-9 officer was deployed in order to track the two men, who had fled on foot. Officers found scattered $1, $10 and $100 bills along the trail, eventually coming up on a drainage ditch where Cummings was found with money stuffed in his waistband. He said he didn’t know who was with him or where the money came from, the police report said. Cummings was handcuffed and taken to the Brown County jail.
A second K-9 arrived on the scene shortly after and both were used to track the second suspect, to no avail. As officers finished getting the suspect’s car towed, the station received a tip that a man matching the suspect’s description was seen running by Brown County High School.
The man evaded officers for some time, eventually being found after a second tip that he was in the Speedway parking lot in Nashville. Officers arrived to find no man in the parking lot, but eventually found him across the street at Hoosier Buddy.
The second man, Davis, was arrested and taken to be interviewed, where he started to complain of chest pain and said that he had heart complications. After emergency medical services arrived, Davis refused treatment, the report said.
Both men were later taken to the Bartholomew County jail where they were charged with crimes in that county.
In Brown County, Cummings was charged with criminal recklessness, leaving the scene of an accident, both Class B misdemeanors; and two counts of resisting law enforcement, a Class A misdemeanor and a Level 6 felony; while Davis was charged with misdemeanor resisting law enforcement.
Driver falls asleep behind the wheel, hits tree
CORDRY-SWEETWATER — A 34-year-old man drove off the road on June 3 after falling asleep and hit a tree, a police report said.
David Metsch, of Sweetwater Trail, was heading south on Nineveh Road near Beech Tree Road at about 5:30 p.m. Police determined that neither the road nor the car conditions were what caused the accident, the report said. Metsch told authorities that he was tired from working in the heat all day and must have passed out.
Officers noticed a deep cut on the top of Metsch’s head. He was treated at the scene. His car, a 1999 white Mazda B4000, was towed to Brown County Tire. The police estimated the damage to be between $1,000 and $2,500.
