Law and Order Gary

GARY Man accused of beating girlfriend Police arrested a 33-year-old Gary man after his live-in girlfriend accused him of beating her Sunday morning. When Donnell Williams appeared in Gary City Court on Monday, the victim, Denise Gilbert, 26, wanted to recall her accusations. But court …

West side man critically wounded in shooting

GARY — A Brunswick man was critically wounded late Monday night as he walked in his neighborhood with a friend who was also shot. In a separate incident, a west side man was shot while standing in a group of people outside a gas station …

HOBART Man crashes car during police chase Lake County police chased a 45-year-old man through Glen Park and into Hobart, where he crashed late Monday night. Brian J. Swartz was hospitalized after the pursuit that ended on Indiana 130 at Hobart Storage. Members of the …

Law and Order Gary

Man threatens police officers A Glen Park man with a long criminal history garnered a new charge when he uttered threats against a Gary officer who arrested him. Wardell Brown, 49, of 105 E. 39th Ave., was in Gary City Court Tuesday on a criminal …

Feds: Accused kidnapper has history of abuse

Federal prosecutors want to present evidence against a man charged with kidnapping a relative from Missouri and taking her to a Portage motel that would show a history of his abuse to his family, including purposefully causing an accident that killed his oldest daughter. According …

Law and Order Porter County

SOUTH HAVEN Armed robbery reported the next day A 32-year-old man said a gunman robbed him Thursday night in his backyard, in the 300 block of Cherryfield Drive, according to a police report made Friday afternoon. The man said that at about 9 p.m. Thursday, …

Man found guilty of resisting law enforcement

GARY — Miles Beach tried to explain why he didn’t open the door to police who arrived with a federal arrest warrant. “I was at home with my five children, actually four, one was on the way,” Beach, 31, testified in his bench trial Monday …

Law and Order Lake County

HOBART Charges mount for robbery suspect The investigation into gas station robberies in Hobart and Merrillville has led to additional charges in Porter County against the same suspect. Jason Ballard, 19, of 3701 Johnson St., Gary, has been charged in Porter Superior Court with robbery …

Trial for attempted murder in South Haven bar gets under way

VALPARAISO — Whether what happened in a dark South Haven bar was attempted murder or whether the Lake Station man on trial did the shooting is up to a jury to decide this week.

Deputy prosecutor Cheryl Polarek said in opening statements Monday that Jason …

Law and Order Lake County

Hammond Hospital escape earns jail trip A Hammond woman was placed on probation for 18 months for failure to return to lawful detention. Lake Superior Court Judge Salvador Vasquez sentenced Susan Carol Finlon, 30, who had been charged with escape. On Dec. 23, Finlon was …

Law and Order Gary

GARY Hammond man accused of taking ex’s laptop A Hammond man has been charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend and stealing her laptop and cash. The Black Oak woman told Detective JerVean Gates that Tobias D. Aguirre, 37, has been at her house twice in recent …

Alert security guard leads police to alleged scammers

GARY — An offer that seemed too good to be true turned out to be just that. But a 29-year-old Gary woman didn’t learn that until she lost about $200 to a couple who took her cash in exchange for a promise of more than …

Law and Order Gary

GARY Don’t take clothes off at laundromat A teenage girl alerted her mother Sunday night to a man in a state of arousal wearing tights at M&M Laundry. Patrolmen Johnnie Gill, James Sheets and Julian Bliss found the suspect, Michael Berg, 54, of Merrillville, sitting …

Law and Order Lake County

CEDAR LAKE Man faces battery, more charges A man charged earlier this week with charges of receiving stolen property in connection with a ring of vehicle thefts now faces more charges, including battery on law enforcement. Police were responding to a call of two men …

Law and Order Gary

GARY Delaney resident faces 5 felonies A man living in Delaney Community Housing Development has been charged with five felonies and two misdemeanors stemming from confrontations with the father of his girlfriend’s child. Edward Lee Perry, 26, is charged with three counts of stalking, two …