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(03/04/08 4:17am)
Bloomington police are investigating three fires from the weekend, two of which were dumpster fires, while another occurred on a porch.\nPolice have been unable to locate any witnesses or signs of suspicious activity, and it is unclear whether any of the three fires were related, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said.\nThe first dumpster fire was reported to police just after 4 a.m. Saturday near the 400 block of South Walnut Street, Canada said.\nThe second dumpster fire occurred at 11 p.m. Sunday in the 100 block of North Walnut Street. The fire reportedly sent smoke near Malibu Grill.\nAccording to reports, the third fire began with a couch on a porch at 5:30 a.m. Sunday in the 500 block of South Washington Street. The fire damaged the porch as well as part of the residence.\nOfficers are waiting for more information about the couch fire from the fire department and have no suspects in any of the incidents.
(03/04/08 4:16am)
A 19-year-old Bloomington resident was arrested for strangulation and pointing a firearm after an argument with his pregnant girlfriend turned violent Sunday, police reports indicate.\nA pregnant 20-year old woman reported to police that her boyfriend had pushed, strangled and pointed a gun at her in their apartment on Pete Ellis Drive, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada.\nOfficers were initially called to the apartment on a domestic disturbance report Sunday just before noon, Canada said.\nPolice said the suspect choked the woman until she hit him in the head with two glass vinegar bottles.\nShe grabbed a cooking pot by the handle to defend herself, police said. As she attempted to run out of the apartment, he tripped her and began choking her from behind.\nThe victim threw the pot through the window, smashing it, Canada said.\nThe victim told police that the man then went into the bedroom. He returned and pointed a shotgun at her, threatening to cock it.\nAccording to the woman’s statement, her boyfriend then left the house. Officers later found him nearby.\nThe woman had no signs of injury, and the man denied her statement entirely, reports said.\nThe suspect is the father of the woman’s baby, Canada said.\nThe man was arrested on preliminary charges of domestic battery, pointing a firearm and strangulation.
(02/29/08 1:27am)
Bloomington police are investigating two separate alleged rapes reported Tuesday and Wednesday, Sgt. Jeff \nCanada said.\nOne report came Tuesday morning when a 40-year-old woman claimed she was raped in her home around 8 a.m., Canada said.\nThe woman was taken to Bloomington Hospital and police were then alerted.\nShe told officers she had forgotten something in her house and left the door cracked while she went inside to retrieve it. She said that a skinny white male in his 30s, who was around 6-feet tall and wearing a ski mask, entered her home and raped her on her couch.\nThe reported rape occurred on the east side and there are no suspects, Canada said.\nPolice received another report of a possible rape Wednesday morning when a 20-year-old IU student said she awoke in a strange apartment without any clothes.\nShe told officers she had gone out with friends the previous night and did not remember how she got in the south side residence or where her clothes went, Canada said.\nThinking she might have been raped, the woman called her friends to pick her up and then went to the hospital.\nBoth cases are still under investigation, Canada said.
(02/28/08 4:35am)
Bloomington police are investigating a fight at Kilroy’s Bar ‘N’ Grill that left two men wounded. One of the men received 20 stitches on his face, according to police reports. \nOfficers responded around 12:15 Wednesday morning to the 500 block of Kirkwood Avenue where two men had been struck in the head with glass bottles. \nEzra D. Douglas, 28, has already been charged with battery, and police are searching for another man who fled before they arrived, said BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada. \nAccording to police reports, Douglas was throwing things and calling names at a group of friends playing a game. \nThe victim confronted Douglas and, after the parties separated, Douglas hit him in the head with a bottle. \nThen, an unidentified person hit Douglas with a bottle, Canada said. \nThe victim received 20 stitches to his face and had a possible broken nose, while Douglas had a large laceration above his left eye and down his cheek. It is not known how many stitches Douglas received, Canada said. \nReports indicate Douglas was taken to jail after being cleared by Bloomington Hospital. \nPolice reviewed footage of the fight from surveillance cameras and hoped to determine the identity of the second suspect who hit Douglas, Canada said.
(02/28/08 4:34am)
Bloomington police arrested two people on charges of dealing cocaine Tuesday night after a six-month investigation and several undercover drug deals, police say. \nIn separate investigations, Jerome L. Allen, 39, and Cathie S. Monroe, 45, were arrested for dealing cocaine and maintaining a common nuisance. \nOfficers served a search warrant on a house near the 1000 block of West Howe Street shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday, said BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada. \nBPD Detective Bill Jeffers, an arresting officer, said police had received reports from nearby residents of suspected drug activity. \nJeffers said the police learned through their investigation that the residents owned a police scanner, and webcams covered entrances to the house. \nBecause of the nature of the surveillance, police were able to obtain a “no-knock” search warrant, he said. \nJeffers said when police entered the home, one of the suspects was found attempting to flush evidence down the toilet. \nAccording to the report, officers found in the home paraphernalia with residue, debt sheets from buyers and pills that have yet to be analyzed. \nPolice said Allen admitted to selling enough drugs to satisfy his own addiction, and Monroe admitted to owning items found in the house but not to selling drugs, Canada said. \nCanada said Monroe was on bond from a previous drug arrest.
(02/28/08 4:34am)
Saturday marks the beginning of Women’s History Month, and Bloomington will kick off the celebration by highlighting the work of three members of the community.\nLiz Kirkland has been named Bloomington’s Woman of the Year, Sue Berg has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Contribution Award and Jillian Kinzie has been picked for the Emerging Leader Award.\nKirkland and Berg will be honored at the 23rd annual Women’s History Month Luncheon on Wednesday, which will feature Mayor Mark Kruzan as well as a speech from Allida Black, a George Washington University professor who wrote the book “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt.”\nThe Annual Women’s History Month Lunch committee chose the women from a pool of about 20 nominees.\nCommittee member Glenda Murray said it is important for the community to recognize exceptional leaders.\n“I believe very much in community and in the importance of recognizing people who care about other people,” Murray said. “And this is the annual way that the community honors women who have been involved over the years.”\nKirkland won the award for her continued work with women and families at Middle Way House, where she serves as children’s services coordinator. \nKirkland’s co-worker at Middle Way House, Charlotte Zeitlow, said society needs positive role models.\n“It is important for girls to know that there are many options for them,” she said. “I’m 73, so I grew up in another era. There is such a difference from when I grew up of what a woman could be.”\nMurray said Kirkland makes sure kids and parents have the resources to deal with tough situations.\nEach Christmas she organizes programs with various community groups to get gifts for families that would otherwise go without.\n“She did all this way beyond what someone would expect from her job,” Murray said of Kirkland. “She works in a pretty tough setting. Anyone who works in that setting probably deserves our thanks to help women get back on their feet.”\nBerg was chosen because of her lifetime work as a community educator, teaching people about safety, agriculture and education.\n“She is somebody who has worked constantly year in and year out,” Zietlow said. “She’s touched so many lives, she deserves to be recognized.”\nKinzie will be honored at a leadership workshop March 24 at City Hall.\nKinzie said awards like these are important to give young female role models.\n“Its very important to give recognition,” she said. “Too often women don’t get the recognition for the work they’ve done. This is designed to make up for awards they don’t get in other settings.”
(02/26/08 4:42am)
Police said Monday that a Bloomington teen admitted to an attempted sexual assault on a 5-year-old girl and was referred to probation for child molestation.\nBloomington police learned about the incident after the parents of the victim informed officers early Sunday morning, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada.\nAccording to reports, the 13-year-old also attempted sexual assault on a 9-year-old boy, Canada said.\nThe reports did not indicate when or where the incidents took place.\nThe teen has been admitted to Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village, a residential treatment center in Vincennes, Ind., Canada said.
(02/22/08 3:01am)
A Bloomington High School South student faces criminal charges after he and another student admitted to having sex in the school’s auditorium earlier this month.\nJames E. Collins III, 19, is being charged with sexual misconduct with a minor, said Bloomington police Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from a police report.\nAccording to reports, Collins and a 15-year old female had sex in the auditorium after school some time earlier this month.\nBloomington High School South was notified and they alerted the police, Canada said.\nCollins may face additional charges for nude photos of females he admitted were on his cell phone.\nCanada said that the two students are not in a relationship and are just “casual acquaintances.”
(02/22/08 3:00am)
Bloomington police arrested a man after he assaulted his wife and then entered another house where he fought with multiple subjects. \nOfficers responded to the 1100 block of North Lindbergh Drive just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night, where a woman reported that her husband, Robert L Davis, 34, had hit her with a shower curtain rod, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said.\nPolice arrested Davis for domestic battery and residential entry.\nAccording to reports, Davis and his wife had been fighting because he believed she was cheating on him.\nAs officers arrived, Davis left his house and went down the block, then entered the residence of the man he thought was cheating with his wife, Canada said.\nThere, multiple subjects assaulted the man, who eventually went to Bloomington Hospital for bruising and lacerations to his face.\nAfter the altercation, Davis returned to his house where officers were talking to his wife, whose finger was broken during the battery, Canada said.\nAccording to police reports, Davis smelled strongly of alcohol and had difficulty standing on his own.\nCanada said police were unable to question Davis at that time because he was belligerent, obscene and difficult to understand at times.
(02/21/08 4:49am)
A man reported a burglary in his home to Bloomington police just before 7 p.m. Tuesday and told officers nunchucks, knives and old coins were among the items stolen.\nPolice responded to the house on the 300 block of South Rogers Street, where they found that one apartment had been ransacked, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.\nThe victim told officers he was missing a DVD player, 20 DVDs, knives, a bayonet from a M1 rifle, a lockbox, $600, a stun gun, nunchucks and a 1921 silver dollar, as well as 30 to 40 other old coins.\nPolice reports said the man believed he locked the door and that the suspect entered by using a knife to disengage the latch.
(02/20/08 6:14am)
The Bloomington Faculty Council passed three resolutions Tuesday, including one requesting the IU Foundation to invest its retirement stocks in companies that don’t cooperate with the government of Sudan.\nThe council had previously passed a resolution on Nov. 20 asking IU to move its savings away from companies doing business with Sudan in accordance with the law Indiana’s General Assembly passed. Legally, the council has no power over the IU Foundation, but members saw the resolution as symbolically important, and hoped it would send a message to companies that are involved with the Sudanese government, an act that members say supports genocide.\nThe two resolutions were passed separately because the law does not apply to private organizations such as the IU Foundation.\nCouncil member and professor Lisa Bingham said the IU Foundation has no direct stock holdings in companies related to the Sudanese government, but the Foundation has $6 million in indirect savings invested in five companies that cooperate with the Sudanese government through fund managers. The $6 million represents 0.4 percent of the total money the IU Foundation invests, Bingham said. \nSome members of the council voiced concern about drafting a stronger resolution.\nCouncil member and professor Jake Bielasiak said the measure “falls short,” and asked the council to use stronger language in the resolution.\n“It matters for the symbolic meaning, so we should try to supply some cause rather than just words,” Bielasiak said.\nEventually, the resolution was re-phrased with more specific language and passed unanimously.\nThe council also enacted legislation supporting the Campus Sustainability Report and the creation of an office which would oversee various sustainability projects on the campus, said IU professor Michael Hamburger.\n“We need a centralized resource coordinating these activities,” he said. “Connecting the various groups working on different projects would make tremendous impact.”\nMost major universities are now undertaking some type of office to coordinate sustainability tasks, he said.\nThe third resolution restructured guidelines explaining how to resolve disputes between faculty members about authorship on journals and research.
(02/18/08 2:58pm)
Each day, Nicholas DiGiuseppe and Shane Jacobson wake up at 6:30 a.m.\nThen they exercise for 30 minutes. Shave, shower and bathe for 30 minutes. Study for an hour. Eat for 30 minutes. Study scripture together for an hour.\nFinally, at 10 a.m., they begin the long walk to campus from their apartment near College Mall.\nThey find a place – using prayer – to stand and talk to IU students about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormonism.\nAfter five hours of spreading the word of Mormonism, they eat dinner for two hours and talk to students for four more hours. \nBy 10:30 p.m. they are in bed. Each morning, five days a week, they start the routine again. \nAs Mormon missionaries, the pair’s days are planned down to the minute for two years, when they go wherever the mission sends them.\nThis week holds a transfer day for the missionaries and DiGiuseppe, Jacobson or both may leave Bloomington. A missionary usually stays in one place for four to six months, so DiGiuseppe won’t be surprised if he leaves this week. \nBut, for now, their home is Bloomington, where they are one of four pairs of missionaries.\nEvery six weeks they have “transfer days,” when they might get a call from the mission president. If the phone rings, they must leave the next day. They don’t know where they will be going or how long they will stay.
(02/17/08 12:27am)
The Banneker Community Center isn’t impressive. Easily overlooked on the west side of Bloomington, it doesn’t command attention.\nInside, visitors are greeted by a set of stairs that squeak with each step, revealing its age. Downstairs sits a small room the size of one in a typical student’s apartment.\nUsually this room – located at 930 W. Seventh St. – is filled with elementary school students playing after school, but not today. Lined with green tape, the walls will soon be the recipients of one third-grader’s artistic design.\n“I want it to be like outside,” said Alendrea Dantzler, a Fairview Elementary School student.\nHer simple idea-turned-drawing became the theme to remodel the Banneker playroom.\nAs one of the many grants donated by the city of Bloomington’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, the Bloomington Environmental Commission received $160 to make a mural in the kids’ after–school playroom.\nMonday was the first step of many to transform Alendrea’s art into educational decor.\nAt 8 a.m., community volunteers and members of the Environmental Commission started transforming the white walls and paneling into a rolling landscape with a blue sky and clouds.\nEnvironmental Commission member Kriste Lindberg spearheaded the “green” painting, which she hopes will educate the kids about how to be better stewards of the environment.\nThe commission will spread its message of environmentalism to the kids by using volatile organic compound–based paint that is better \nabsorbed by the atmosphere. Lindberg wants a place that makes the kids feel more at home than the old, drab white walls.\nBanneker Community Center was one of 53 organizations to benefit from Bloomington’s “A Day ON, Not A Day OFF!,” a national effort to promote service projects on the holiday.\nIn all, more than $17,000 will be spent on different service projects locally.\nThe Environmental Commission spent its funds buying paint and supplies, most of which were purchased at a discounted price. Aver’s Gourmet Pizza supplied food to the volunteers, who came in as they could throughout the day.\nLindberg prepped the room last week, cleaning the walls and moving the furniture into the middle of the room so the volunteers could paint.\nNow, two dark silver desks hold two HP computers. Crafts and children’s toys sit on a foosball table and a couch, as random game pieces float around the room.\nOn the top of one stack is a single Monopoly Chance card. It reads, “Pay poor tax of $15.”\nWalking out of the Banneker gym, Casey Donnelly, assistant to Banneker’s director, headed toward the white Parks and Recreation Department van parked illegally in the yellow no-parking zone with its headlights on.\n“True Banneker style,” Donnelly jested.\nDonnelly drove east toward campus before making a detour past Crestmont housing community, where a lot of the kids that go to Banneker live.\nOn his way to Crestmont, Donnelly pulled the car over to the side of the road.\n“Hold on,” he said, getting out and walking over to check on an elderly man in a blue Geo Metro that had lost its right front wheel.\nDonnelly returned and restarted the van.\n“He’s all right. He said a tow truck was on its way,” Donnelly said, continuing down the road. “That’s an underlying problem with society – we don’t help each other out enough.”\nMost of the Banneker children attend Fairview Elementary School, which is essentially an inner-city school, Donnelly said.\n“It’s a different world here; there’s problems with drugs and violence and these kids live with it,” he said, pointing out houses of children he knows who live in Crestmont.\nRoughly 75 percent of the children who attend Banneker after school live below the poverty line, Donnelly said as he passed rows of small, one-story houses.\n“I was in college before I saw most of the things these kids see,” he said. “I know people who won’t even drive around here.”\nAfter five years of working with the kids, Donnelly said it’s hard not to be cynical. Still, he finds hope – especially with help from groups such as the Environmental Commission.\n“They are incredible kids,” he said. “They deserve nice things. They deserve the things rich kids get.”\nLindberg wanted the kids to take ownership of the mural and put a little bit of themselves into the community.\n“I’m just the facilitator bringing it all together,” Lindberg said. “The kids are in charge.”\nThe project is ongoing, and children will be encouraged to add their own scenes to the mural to make it their own.\n“I just can’t wait to be here tomorrow and see their faces,” Lindberg said. “I’m getting goose bumps just thinking about it.”\nAlendrea said she wanted to add children playing in a park to the wall.\n“I’m going to write right above it: ‘Everything in peace. It’s MLK, he died in peace,’” Alendrea said. “He changed the world.”
(02/15/08 4:33am)
About 25 students crammed into the front room of the Asian Culture Center house at 7 p.m. Wednesday to hear communication and culture Assistant Professor Ilana Gershon speak about her research on the effects of going “Facebook official.”\nGershon talked about how young people use different forms of communication – Facebook, e-mail, text messages or phone calls – to send messages about breaking up. Through her research, which is still in progress, she found that the medium someone uses to break up sends different messages and has varied implied meaning. \nFor most people, she said, breaking up over the Internet or phone is still unacceptable, although she said that for those under 25, e-mail often carries formality not seen by those over 25.\nGershon also shared the introduction to a book she is writing about what she calls “the new forms of disconnection,” or how young people use technology to end relationships.\nShe said she began thinking about writing the book after she couldn’t find any reliable research to show her students about the new online mediums.\nGershon divided how people use the Internet into different “media ideologies,” or communities that have a common understanding of its use.\n“You don’t understand that you don’t have shared ideas until you get your heart stomped on a second time,” she said.\nSophomore Joe Martinez said he attended the lecture because he is interested in how people share information with others on the Internet. He said people use forums like Facebook to create a new persona.\n“You have a personal life, a home life and now you have a new hat to wear: your online life,” Martinez said.\nGershon said Facebook can be problematic during and after a relationship, including how it discloses so little actual information.\n“Facebook is like a potato chip. It gives you info, but not enough to satisfy you, so you keep looking,” Gershon said.
(02/15/08 3:36am)
Cleaning crews detained a man in Yogi’s Grill and Bar after he attempted to break into the offices with a hammer early Thursday morning, according to Bloomington Police Department reports, Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.\nBloomington police responded to a call from Yogi’s at around 5:20 a.m., where workers had Jeffrey C. Shoemaker, 26, in custody, said Canada.\nOfficers arrested Shoemaker and charged him with burglary and false informing, because he originally told police his name was Brian Walters.\nCleaning crews arrived at around 4:30 a.m., and one of the crew members heard banging from somewhere in the building and then found Shoemaker hammering on the lock to the offices, Canada said.\nThe man confronted Shoemaker and followed him into a patio area where the crew member kept Shoemaker until the police arrived.\nWhen officers arrived, Shoemaker identified himself as Walters and said his father was a lieutenant for the Fort Wayne Police Department.\nPolice found a hammer on Shoemaker and took him to the police station, where they were able to confirm his real identity.\nYogi’s management did not originally think Shoemaker was a former employee, but after learning his real name from his girlfriend, they were able to confirm that he worked there within the past year, Canada said.\nAccording to the report, officers believed nothing was missing from Yogi’s.\nShoemaker refused to talk to police and instead asked for an attorney, Canada said.
(02/14/08 1:08am)
Bloomington police arrested an IU sophomore on four felony charges Tuesday after police say the student wrote and sold several fake prescriptions for Adderall.\nJonathan B. Lerner, 20, was charged with two counts of forgery as well as dealing and possession of a schedule II controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report. \nLerner was arrested in his apartment on the 800 block of East Hunter Avenue after police executed a search warrant, which was obtained after an informant tipped them off about Lerner’s activities, Canada said. \nA confidential informant told Bloomington police about Lerner on Feb. 6, Canada said. Under officers’ direction the informant then bought 60 pills of Adderall for $60.\nLerner admitted signing the names of doctors but denied selling pills to anyone, Canada said.\nLerner obtained blank prescriptions from his late father, Scott Lerner, who worked for Midwest Pulmonary Consultants, P.C., in Kansas City, Mo., before he died in 2000, Canada said.\nEmployees from Midwest Pulmonary Consultants said the prescriptions were at least 10 years old, Canada said.\nOfficers found numerous blank prescription pads and pill bottles throughout Lerner’s apartment.\nAccording to the police report, Lerner had 20 prescriptions filled in his name in the last six months at Kroger, Walgreens and Kmart.
(02/13/08 7:00pm)
Ten years ago Jared Fogle was just a typical college student. Or two college students. Or three.
(02/12/08 4:16am)
An IU freshman was arrested early Saturday morning after police say he attempted to force his way into a house on the 900 block of South Manor Road.\nJustin D. Rector, 19, of South Bend, was arrested for attempted residential entry, illegal consumption and public intoxication, Canada, reading from a police report.\nOfficers responded to South Manor Road after a woman reported that a man was attempting to enter through her screen door. The woman told officers she was nearly asleep when she heard someone trying to open the door, and that the suspect tried to enter the house even after seeing her.\nOfficers arrested Rector early Saturday morning at the intersection of Hawthorne Drive and Maxwell Lane, where Canada said they found him intoxicated.\nThe victim later identified Rector as the possible suspect and he was arrested for attempted residential entry, illegal consumption and public intoxication.
(02/12/08 4:15am)
Police said two unknown men attempted to carjack a man and a woman at gunpoint early Sunday morning, Canada said, reading from a police report.\nThe car was parked near the 300 block of South Dunn Street early Sunday morning when two men, both about six feet tall and wearing black sweatshirts, approached the vehicle from the rear.\nOne suspect opened the passenger’s side door and ordered the victims out of the car. The female victim told officers she saw one of the suspects holding a gun as she exited the vehicle.\nInstead of getting out of the vehicle, the male victim then drove down the road, Canada said.\nThe suspects told the woman to turn and walk away, then left the scene, Canada said.\nThe male victim drove the car about 200 feet up the street, Canada said. Both victims said the suspects never touched them. \nCanada said it was likely the men were attempting to steal the car and stopped after the man drove away.
(02/12/08 4:06am)
Two IU football players were arrested for disorderly conduct Sunday morning after police warned the men to quiet the music and voices coming from their apartment.\nIU junior wide receiver James Bailey and sophomore running back Demetrius McCray were arrested early Sunday morning at their apartment on the 2800 block of West Heartwood Court. \nBloomington Police Department officers initially arrived at the men’s apartment at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday and heard voices and music coming from the apartment, said BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from a police report. \nPolice cited McCray and Bailey for noise ordinance violations and told the pair to quiet down, Canada said. \nWhen officers received another noise complaint later the same night, they returned to the apartment and arrested both men, Canada said.\nBloomington’s noise ordinance states that every resident of a property present during the violation is subject to a $50 fine and issued a warning for disorderly conduct. If the noise does not cease, the residents may face arrest.
