Suspects released in Javins case

Four people were arrested in connection with the disappearance of missing Indiana State University student Scott Javins, who investigators believed were responsible for Javins' disappearance, but police have now released two of the four suspects, holding the other two on drug charges.\nRonnie Boerner, 23, of Terre Haute, allegedly lied to police about information on Javins. The woman, who investigators say admitted lying about the involvement of four people in the college student's two-month-old disappearance, pleaded innocent Wednesday to a charge of false informing.\nBoerner was being held in the Vigo County Jail on a $25,000 bond. She faces an Oct. 18 trial date, said Vigo County Lt. Steve Barnhart.\nJavins was last seen around 2:30 a.m. May 24 in Terre Haute leaving a friend's home in a 2002 silver Honda Civic SI.\nAbout 30 minutes before leaving, he called his mother to tell her he would be heading to their northern Vigo County home. He never arrived.\nMissing posters of Javins have been posted in Terre Haute restaurants and stores. A $25,000 reward has been offered in the case.\nThe supposed break in the case came with a tip on Thursday to the CrimeStoppers line, said Barnhart, the lead investigator in the case.\nBoerner, who said she witnessed part of the crime, met later with detectives. Officers searched a Terre Haute home on Friday, seizing and arresting five people, including a woman and her son who are suspected of having information about the Javins case.\nThey were arrested after marijuana, more than $1,900 in cash and other evidence suggesting a drug operation were found inside their home, police said.\nPolice on Saturday arrested two other men who they thought were connected to the case.\nJavins' father, Merv Javins, said he never believed the story Boerner told detectives: that his son was killed in Illinois over a drug debt and brought back to Terre Haute where his body was dumped.\n"The story they told just didn't make sense," Merv Javins told the Tribune-Star for a story Wednesday. "I told my wife this just didn't add up. I told her I'm not going to believe it."\nBarnhart said Boerner failed a polygraph test Tuesday, and later admitted making up the story.\nAfter Boerner talked with investigators, the four people were arrested over the weekend and officers spent a combined 400 hours over three days searching a wooded area for Javins' body and repeatedly combing the Wabash River for his car.\nMerv Javins said he was concerned that authorities jumped the gun in announcing the arrests, though overall he was satisfied with the investigation.\n"I hope they won't quit until they find answers," he said.\nVigo County Sheriff Bill Harris said detectives still have other leads to pursue.\nMerv Javins said he and his wife still believe their son will be found alive.\n"If you give up hope, what have you got left," he said. "Someone out there knows something. We just need them to come forward and come forward soon"