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Updated: January 20, 2012 4:52PM

Detention for showing images

A Portage man who showed a boy pornographic images will serve six months in home detention.

Albert N. Owens, 58, also received 30 months of probation on Friday for an earlier plea to class D felony dissemination of material harmful to a minor.

Court records state that between September 2009 and February 2010, Owens also rubbed the boy on his back and stomach after the mother trusted Owens to be a mentor to her son as a pastor.

Guilty plea in road worker’s death

The East Chicago man who killed an Interstate 94 construction worker and drove off pleaded guilty Friday to one of the five felony counts against him.

If Porter County Superior Court Judge William Alexa accepts the plea to class B felony of leaving the scene causing death while operating intoxicated, Ricardo F. Bustos, 22, could serve up to 131/2 years in prison.

As part of the plea, Bustos admitted to striking Roger D. Sadler, 49, of Michigan City, with a 1998 red Chevrolet Cavalier in May 2010, leading to Sadler’s eventual death two days later.

Bustos didn’t stop after he hit Sadler after making a U-turn in a blocked-off area at the 23-mile marker.

Bustos had a .124 percent blood alcohol level according to a blood sample taken about 3 hours after he was taken into custody.

His sentence will be argued March 23.

Man pleads guilty in robbery

After 479 days in Porter County Jail, a Valparaiso man who helped rob a Jimmy John’s delivery man using a baseball bat got released Friday.

However, Aaron Chaim Shaw, 21, will spend time in a halfway house and then go on to serve probation.

The entire sentence for Shaw will be six years, including time served, for his plea to two class D felonies, aiding in a theft and intimidation.

His accomplice, Cedric L. Price, 20, received a sentence of time served on Sept. 9, about a year after the two called the sandwich shop with a false address and threatened the driver with the baseball bat.

Deputy prosecutor Mike Drenth said Price took a cooperation sentence that Shaw turned down.

Judge pro-tem Gary Germann agreed with Drenth that based on two mental health evaluations taken to see if Shaw was fit to stand trial, Shaw needs the structure of probation after he is released from the halfway house.