A Nashville woman, 55-year-old Anjeanette Crumrine, faces multiple charges after reportedly stealing a truck and attempting to use a debit card that was in it last month.
According to the probable cause affidavit, on April 6, Nashville Police Officer Heath Young was dispatched to the Brown County YMCA to take a stolen vehicle report.
Upon arrival, he was greeted by the victim, who was behind the counter, watching surveillance camera footage of the parking lot.
According to the report, the video showed a female who police said was Crumrine, looking inside vehicles. Young watched Crumrine enter the victim’s truck and drive out of the parking lot in the footage.
The victim told Young that he had left the truck’s keys in the ignition and his daughter had left her wallet and debit card, inside the vehicle.
While Young was speaking with the victim, his wife got an alert from his daughter’s bank indicating the card had been used at the CVS Pharmacy in Nashville.
NPD Lt. Mike Horn went to CVS to speak with the employees and check surveillance footage there.
According to the report, the footage showed Crumrine enter the store, shop and attempt to check out using the debit card that was reported stolen.
After Young finished the stolen vehicle report with the victim, he relocated to CVS to speak with the employee, who gave him a verbal description of events and a suspect.
Later that day, Young was dispatched to the Hard Truth Distillery parking lot for a recovered stolen vehicle. He arrived and confirmed it was the same truck from earlier, then contacted the victim so he could come complete an inventory of the vehicle.
According to the report, the victim said his keys, his daughter’s wallet and debit card and around $20 in change was missing from the truck. Young the released the truck back to the victim.
The Nashville Police Department asked the public via Facebook if anyone in the community could identify the person in the photos taken from the CVS surveillance footage.
A few hours later, Lt. Horn received a call from Family Dollar in Nashville, who informed him that an individual matching Crumrine’s description was checking out at the store and leaving on foot.
Young was informed of her location and traveled to Family Dollar. While en route, Young saw her walking through the parking lot of the Salt Creek Inn.
He pulled his police vehicle beside her, stepped out and asked Crumrine if she had any identification on her. She said she did, and gave him an ID card from California with her name and date of birth on it, the report said.
Horn then arrived and began to question Crumrine.
According to the report, Crumrine told the officers that she has a drug problem and needed some extra money. She had walked the Salt Creek Trail earlier that morning and noticed a truck with keys in the ignition, which she said was an “opportunity to get a little extra money.”
Crumrine said she told him she did not want the truck, the report said, but thought there may be something of value in it. The report indicated she drove it to the parking lot where it was recovered and searched. Police say that the suspect said she found the debit card and walked to CVS where she tried to make a purchase.
The officers placed Crumrine under arrest and recovered the truck keys and debit card from her.
Crumrine was transported to the Brown County Jail and booked with auto theft, a Level 6 felony; fraud, a Class A misdemeanor; theft, a Class A misdemeanor; and unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle, a Class B misdemeanor.
The probable cause affidavit was filed on April 11.
Motorcycle hits gravel patch, leaves roadway
A motorcyclist and passenger were injured in a single-vehicle crash that took place last month.
According to the crash report, Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Austin Schonfeld responded to the crash on Nineveh Road at the intersection of Beech Tree Road on the afternoon of April 15.
The one and only vehicle involved in the crash was a motorcycle that had been traveling south. While going down a hill on Nineveh Road, the motorcycle ran off the west side of the road.
The driver, Steven Absher, of Noblesville, advised that they had hit a patch of gravel, causing them to go off the roadway, the report said.
Both Steven and the passenger, Teresa Asher, were injured. According to the report, Steven refused treatment and Teresa was transported by EMS.
Photos were taken of the area and a friend of the driver and passenger stayed with the crashed motorcycle until a tow truck arrived.
Cement truck reportedly run off road into ditch
The driver of a cement mixer truck was left injured following a crash last month.
According to the crash report, Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Kyle Minor reported the scene of a crash on Tuesday, April 18 on Ford Ridge Road at the intersection of Upper Salt Creek Road.
Minor reported that upon his arrival, the driver, Cooper Olmstead, was being transported from the scene by Nineveh EMS due to neck and back pain.
Firefighters on the scene reported that Olmsted said he was run off of the road by a red passenger car.
The cement truck was laying on its passenger side in a ditch and the firefighters said Olmstead had been trapped in the truck. However, he was able to remove himself from the vehicle, the report said.
A tow truck arrived and removed the truck from the ditch. A manager from the company that owned the truck came out to inspect damages.
According to the report, the truck had damage on its passenger side, and another driver from the company arrived and drove it back to the shop.
Car ends up in ditch after avoiding deer; driver hurt
A driver, Carter Condon, sustained injury to his legs during a crash last month, after swerving to avoid a deer and losing control of the vehicle.
According to the crash report, Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Oliver Hitz responded to a crash on Abe Martin Lodge Road on the evening of April 29.
When he arrived on scene, Hitz reported that the vehicle was off the east side of the road. Condon was out of the car and waiting in a bystander’s car for EMS to arrive, the report said.
While medics were checking Condon, Hitz got his license, registration and insurance information. Hitz then checked the skid marks at the scene, and noted that the road was wet and there was dense fog, making visibility limited.
When medics were finished, Hitz spoke with Condon. According to the report, Condon said he was leaving Abe Martin Lodge and as he was approaching a hillcrest, he turned on his high beam lights to see better in the dense fog.
At that moment, Condon said, he saw a deer in the middle of the road, so he maneuvered to the left to avoid collision. He ended up leaving the road, and as he tried to get back to the road, he sideswiped a tree with the back, driver’s side wheel and lost control of the vehicle.
The report said the car drive in a straight line forward and collided frontally into a tree, causing the airbags to deploy.
Hitz also reported that Condon seemed to be injured on his lower legs. Condon’s parents arrived and EMS transported him to Columbus Regional Hospital.
A tow truck came to remove the vehicle and towed it to Nashville.
Local man faces multiple drug charges
A Nashville man, 26-year-old Garrett Hoskins, faces a felony and two misdemeanors for possession of drugs and paraphernalia following an event last month.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Edward Scales was dispatched to a welfare check at the Speedway in Nashville on April 22.
Upon arrival, Scales said he noticed a vehicle and approached it, alongside Brown County Lt. Colt Magner. As they approached, EMS arrived on scene.
According to the report, Magner had the driver, later identified as Hoskins, step out of the vehicle to speak with the medics. Hoskins allegedly refused medical treatment.
The officers spoke with Hoskins and asked to search him. Hoskins agreed, the report said, and the officers allegedly found a marijuana vape pen and a bag of a white, crystal-like substance, which Scales identified in the report as methamphetamine.
According to the report, the officers asked Hoskins what the substance was and he told them it was meth.
The officers placed Hoskins under arrest and searched his vehicle. The report said they located a bag of marijuana inside the car.
Hoskins was transported to the Brown County Jail and booked with possession of methamphetamine, a Level 6 felony; possession of marijuana, a Class A misdemeanor; and possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.
The probable cause affidavit was filed on April 24.
