Jail

A Starke County Jail inmate escaped Wednesday afternoon and as of Thursday morning, has not been located.  Joshua Hunnicutt escaped about 4 p.m. Wednesday, possibly by means of his girlfriend Rachel Berdine who was waiting for him near the jail. Hunnicutt was arrested for an active warrant for possession of methamphetamine and maintaining a common nuisance. Descriptions Joshua Hunnicutt: White mail, 30 years old, 6-feet tall, 170 lbs, brown short/shaved hair, short beard.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - A Terre Haute man wanted on child pornography charges has been returned to the Vigo County Jail after he was mistakenly released. The Tribune-Star and WTHI-TV report 38-year-old Chauncey Krantz was released from jail Friday due to a clerical error. Authorities say Krantz was released following an appearance in Terre Haute City Court on unrelated charges before he ever appeared in Vigo County court on charges of child exploitation. Krantz was captured later as he was on his way to his attorney's office.

New details in the weekend death of a LaPorte County Jail inmate were released late Monday night by Sheriff Michael Mollenhauer. Dead is Roy E. Young, 37, of Michigan City. He was pronounced dead at 7:42 a.m. Saturday at Indiana University Health Center/LaPorte Campus. An autopsy Monday revealed the cause of death as cardiac arrhythmia brought on by a drug overdose. During the autopsy, a plastic baggie was found in Young’s body. A cellmate of Young’s told police Yong “swallowed cocaine” during a traffic stop to avoid being arrested for possession, according to Mollehauer’s news release.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) - A 35-year-old East Orange, N.J., man has been found dead in the Isabella County Jail in Mount Pleasant. The Saginaw News reports ( http://bit.ly/nALStg ) that Bradford Gibson was found unconscious, not breathing and without a pulse about 3 a.m. Saturday in the facility about 60 miles north of Lansing. Gibson had been arrested about an hour earlier by police in Mount Pleasant for being a disorderly person, resisting a police officer and aggravated assault on an officer.

SOUTH BEND — Indiana State Police have concluded an investigation into suspected drug trafficking by several former guards at the St. Joseph County Jail and turned the results over to the county prosecutor’s office. Prosecutor Michael Dvorak said he expects to determine within a few weeks whether the investigation uncovered grounds for filing criminal charges. "It will have priority attention," Dvorak said. The investigation involved allegations of five guards trafficking forbidden items with inmates, including illegal drugs, tobacco and cell phones.

During their investigation, Kosciusko County police learned 49-year-old Grover Layne likely had been having sex with a teen for two years. Thursday, detectives arrested Layne on three preliminary felony charges of child molestation of a now 14-year-old girl. Police began investigating recent allegations against Layne, according to a news release from Sgt. Chad Hill, Kosciusko County Sheriff Department's public information officer. Layne confessed to having engaged in sex with the girl on numerous occasions, according to the news release.

GOSHEN - A Goshen man has been arrested for knifing a nephew. Police got a call from a woman on Brookside Manor just after midnight Tuesday. Officers were told two brothers got into an argument, waking up the uncle, 44-year-old Terry Lemler. Police were told Lemler came out of his bedroom with two knives that appeared to be small swords. He struck his 19-year-old nephew, Jason Lemler, on the head. Terry Lemler was taken to the Elkhart County Jail and booked for aggravated battery.

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) - A woman arrested on her wedding day and jailed while wearing a white gown and veil has been arraigned on identity theft charges. The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports Wednesday that 53-year-old Tammy Lee Hinton is accused of using or trying to use her son's identification to get phone and utility service, and a credit card. Jackson District Court Magistrate Frederick Bishop ordered Hinton held on a $100,000 bond. The theft was reported in 2009 and a warrant was issued.

NILES — Good people can make bad choices. That was the message Berrien County Trial Judge Scott Schofield gave Buchanan resident Jennifer Mollberg when he sentenced her Monday for embezzling more than $33,000 from a Buchanan school organization. "You may be a good person, but you made a series of terribly poor choices," Schofield told Mollberg. "One of the lessons I hope the community learns is that even good people are capable of terrible choices. "You have the opportunity to teach your children that even good people can be at terrible risk of making poor choices, and you have the opportunity to teach them how to recover," he said.

SOUTH BEND - A St. Joseph County Jail escapee is back in custody. Police say around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Franklin Rice, 27, of South Bend got access to a bread delivery truck which had the keys in the ignition. Rice then drove the truck from the rear dock area on the north side of the jail on W. Sample St. in South Bend, smashing through a gate before fleeing onto Lafayette Blvd. Police say Rice stopped and left the bread truck between Sample and Bronson Streets and ran. It appears he got into another vehicle and continued fleeing.