Police: Distracted driver rear-ended vehicle
GNAW BONE — A driver from Arizona rear-ended a vehicle after looking away from the road last month.
Emergency responders were dispatched to the 4500 block of State Road 46 East on May 27 in reference to a crash with injuries.
The second driver, Ivan Thomas, 21, Morgantown, told police a camper was turning into Friends O’ Mine Campground in Gnaw Bone and westbound traffic was waiting behind the camper.
Thomas told police that as he waited he was rear-ended by a vehicle, driven by Henry Barber, 20, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Barber told police he was traveling westbound and looking at the campground when he turned to look back at traffic in front of him, which was stopped.
According to the accident report, Barber said when he saw drivers in front of him stopped he was unable to react quickly and rear-ended Thomas and continued off the north side of the road.
The three occupants of the vehicle were checked by EMS but refused transport to the hospital.
Man facing felony charge for meth possession
GNAW BONE — A Brown County man is facing a Level 6 felony for possession of methamphetamine after an incident in April.
Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Kyle Minor responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle at the Pentecostal Church in Gnaw Bone on April 4.
Upon his arrival, Minor observed a man sitting in the driver’s seat. Deputy Nicholson Briles arrived on scene to assist.
Officers made contact with the individual in the vehicle, Jerry Walls, 56, of Nashville, who said he was texting his mother and that his phone had to do an update.
Briles located a clear plastic container and officers asked Walls to exit the vehicle, to which he was hesitant.
Walls was detained and shown the container, which he told police was methamphetamine, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Minor found drug-related paraphernalia during a search of Walls’ person.
Walls reportedly told police he had used meth four hours before he arrived to the church and that when he used it “hurt like sin,” and had gone to the church to dispose of it.
He was arrested and transported to Brown County Jail.
Indianapolis woman faces felony OWI charges
A traffic stop on Dec. 23 has led to three Level 6 felonies for a woman from Indianapolis.
Brown County Sgt. Chad Williams initiated a traffic stop after observing a vehicle traveling to the right of the fog line.
Williams made contact with the driver, Lisa Kitchen, 66, and administered field sobriety tests. Kitchen failed the field sobriety tests and was administered a blood draw. The results eventually came back at showing her blood-alcohol content was 0.20, which is more than twice the legal limit.
Kitchen was formally charged on May 6 and her charges were increased to felonies due to prior OWI convictions in 2018.
