2010 Area Crime

[Happy Mom]

Police continue search after South Bend home invasion
SBT24/7 News Report

Police continue to search for a man who broke into a South Bend home Monday afternoon, and then locked a resident in the closet.

The home invasion happened just after 3:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of North Johnson Street, according to city 911 dispatch.

After the man came inside, the resident was forced into the closet.

There was no immediate word on whether the man had a weapon during the incident.

The resident was not injured, authorities said.

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[Happy Mom]

Man tells police he was tied up and robbed by prostitute, others
Tribune Staff Report

SOUTH BEND — Police say a 56-year-old man reported being tied up with duct tape and robbed Sunday after he invited a prostitute into his home.

The man told police he previously had used the woman’s services, only to discover she stole his wallet. When he called the woman and demanded his wallet back, she agreed to meet him at his Klinger Avenue home.

The man told police that instead of one woman, he was met by two women and a man when he arrived at his home Sunday. The victim said the trio fastened him to a chair using duct tape, then took several hundred dollars from his home.

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I don't see this story as a "tragedy."

[backstagedee]

Ahhh! Now there are one hundred and two uses for duct tape around the house... I wonder if the working girl carries WD-40 also?

[Happy Mom]

Employee suffers stab wound at Mishawaka restaurant
Tribune Staff Report

MISHAWAKA — Police said an employee at the Hani Yori restaurant on Grape Road was treated at a local hospital for a stab wound Sunday afternoon.

But he told police he didn't want to prosecute the man who threw the knife at him because the suspect was a friend and a co-worker.

Police said the 36-year-old victim told them he noticed that his 44-year-old co-worker was intoxicated about 4:50 p.m. and told him he shouldn't be working in that condition.

Police said the victim told them the two argued and the suspect threw a small food-preparation knife in his direction.

The knife bounced off a table and hit the victim in the arm, according to police.

Police said they took the suspect to his home because the victim didn't want to press charges.

The Tribune is not automatically publishing Web comments on this article. If you wish to comment, send an e-mail to comments@sbtinfo.com. Evidently too tragic a story...

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[Happy Mom]

55-year-old reports beating by trio

SOUTH BEND — A 55-year-old South Bend man told police he was robbed and assaulted by three strangers at the corner of Vassar Avenue and Olive Street Feb. 25.

He filed a police report for medical billing reasons one week later, he told police.

He said three men struck him repeatedly in the head, neck and chest before taking $80 from his suit jacket.

He said he was treated at Memorial Hospital.

When he filed the report, he had bruising around both of his eyes and his jaw appeared to be swollen, according to the report.

CRIME & COURTS

Victim reports she was hit with board

SOUTH BEND — A 34-year-old South Bend woman told police a man hit her with a wooden board and threw a bike at her vehicle around 9 a.m. Wednesday.

It was not clear from the police report whether the man was her husband, though they shared the same last name and she told police they had been separated for a month.

The woman said the 23-year-old man came to her residence, in the 3100 block of West Calvert Street, pounding on the door.

When she went outside, he hit her in the back of the head with a wooden board, she told police.

He also threw a children's bike at her car and shattered the board on it, she told police.

The woman was crying and had redness on her face when police arrived, according to a police report.

Police later arrested the man at his workplace on suspicion of domestic battery, according to a police report.

But the man denied the woman's allegations, and showed police a gas receipt from the time of the alleged assault, according to the report.

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[Happy Mom]

Teen assaulted at South Bend bus station
Tribune Staff Report

SOUTH BEND — A 16-year-old girl who is four months pregnant was treated at a local hospital after being assaulted at the Transpo terminal on West South Street Wednesday night.

Police said they received a report of a fight in the parking lot shortly after 9 p.m. and arrived to find the teenager on the ground in pain.

Police said two other teenagers apparently assaulted her and left before police arrived.



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Don't think this is a "tragic" story either to not allow comments....

[Happy Mom]

Man assaulted, woman injured in fall, police say
Tribune Staff Report

SOUTH BEND — Police are still sorting out an assault that ended with a woman suffering a broken ankle while trying to leave an apartment using a rope made of sheets Wednesday night.

The first call came at 11 p.m., police said, when they found a 56-year-old man at a convenience store at Miami Street and Indiana Avenue who was bleeding from a stab wound in his arm.

He told police he didn't know what happened, but they found blood in his apartment in a nearby building. They didn't find anybody in the apartment, though.

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The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Almost three hours later, at 1:50 a.m., police were called back to the area when a woman was heard screaming.

Police said they found a 47-year-old woman on the ground with a broken ankle and a rope of sheets coming from the window of the apartment where the man was injured.

The woman told police she and the man argued after drinking. She said he hit her and she stabbed him.

She apparently fell trying to leave the apartment using the rope made of sheets. The police report did not explain why she was leaving the apartment that way.

The woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

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[Happy Mom]

Police find meth lab in Mishawaka hotel
Tribune Staff Report

MISHAWAKA – Police say they uncovered a working meth lab early Thursday morning in a room at the Studio Plus hotel.

According to police reports, a person staying at the hotel, 4715 N. Main St., said she could smell a strong chemical smell coming from a third-floor room. Police discovered that the chemical smell was so strong that they evacuated other guests staying on that floor.

Inside the room, police found a 21-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man, both from Edwardsburg. Police say they also found the ingredients required to make meth.

Investigators from the county's joint narcotics unit, as well as the Indiana State Police, determined that meth was being manufactured in the room, police reported.

Both the man and woman were arrested and taken to the St. Joseph County Jail, where they were accused of manufacturing meth, maintaining a common nuisance and other crimes.


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Woman, 23, spits on South Bend police officer
Tribune Staff Report

SOUTH BEND — A 23-year-old South Bend woman was arrested early Thursday for spitting on a police officer, according to a police report.

Police were called to the 900 block of north Portage Avenue around 1 a.m. Thursday, where a woman was yelling and screaming that she wanted to go to jail.

Cpl. Christopher Bortone and Patrolman Nicholas McKinley told the woman they could not take her to jail without a reason, the report said. It said she appeared heavily intoxicated.


McKinley offered to give her a ride home, but the woman refused.

She began swearing at Bortone and then spit in his face, according to a police report.

When police tried to arrest and handcuff her, she became combative and started kicking and screaming, the report said.

McKinley eventually handcuffed her on the ground, the report said. When she arrived at the St. Joseph County Jail, she attempted but failed to spit on the officers.

She was booked into the jail on suspicion of felony battery to a police officer, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and public intoxication, according to the report.
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CRIME & COURTS

Suspect arrested in October slaying

SOUTH BEND — Police have arrested a 19-year-old in connection with the October 2009 killing of a South Bend man.


Sean Lottie was arrested by the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit March 17, according to county jail records.

Lottie and seven others have been charged in connection with the shooting death of Phillip Bell. Bell was shot to death in the 600 block of Birdsell Street Oct. 21.

Lottie has been charged with one count of attempted murder and is being held in the St. Joseph County Jail on a $10,000 cash bond.

Quentin Leonard, 17, is the only suspect who has not yet been booked into the county jail.

He faces one count of murder.

CRIME & COURTS

Father, son jailed after gun fired

SOUTH BEND — Police arrested a South Bend teenager Tuesday after he allegedly fired a gun from his front porch while children were getting off the school bus in the 700 block of south Brookfield Street.

Police also arrested the teen's father, a convicted felon, who allegedly gave the gun to his son.

The pair had been feuding with neighbors earlier that afternoon, police said, and the son had fired the gun to intimidate the neighbors.

When police arrived, the 47-year-old father and 19-year-old son said they did not have a gun, but the son later admitted he had hid it in the furnace of their house before police arrived.

The serial number on the revolver had been obliterated, police said.

The father was convicted in 1978 of involuntary manslaughter and served two years in prison, police said.

Police have been called to the 700 block of Brookfield six times in the last two days on various neighborhood disturbances, police records show.

CRIME & COURTS

2 arrested; stolen gun is recovered

SOUTH BEND — Police say they recently recovered a stolen gun from a February burglary — in the car of a 57-year-old convicted felon.

On Feb. 15, a woman in the 100 block of Walton Avenue reported that her .25-caliber semi-automatic hand gun had been stolen from her residence, according to a police report.

On Monday, police stopped a vehicle on Huey Street after an officer noticed the car's tail lights were not working properly, according to a police report.

The female driver and male passenger both had outstanding warrants, and were taken to jail, the report said.

Police found the stolen handgun in the center console of the pair's vehicle, and determined it was the stolen gun from the February incident, the report said.
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