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(04/19/11 2:44am)
Don Belton did not respond to emails or phone calls. He was supposed to
be in Honolulu with his friend, Mara Miller. Don bought a plane ticket
to depart from Indianapolis International Airport at 8 a.m. Dec. 28,
2009.
(04/14/11 2:41am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Closing arguments will be heard today in the trial of Michael J. Griffin for the murder of former IU professor Don Belton.Griffin, 26, testified in court Wednesday that he did not enter Belton’s home with the intent to kill him.Griffin said he drove to Belton’s home at 904 S. Madison St. to discuss what happened two days prior on Dec. 25, 2009, when he said Belton sexually assaulted him.When Griffin stood in Belton’s kitchen on Dec. 27, he said he raised the issue.“You must’ve enjoyed it because you weren’t resisting,” Belton said to Griffin, according to Griffin’s Wednesday testimony in court.Then Griffin grabbed Belton and said, “No, you’re wrong.”Belton, with two hands, pushed Griffin backward. Griffin unsheathed a knife he often carries with him and held it out and sideways.Belton lunged at Griffin and grabbed the sharp end of the knife and cut his hand. The two men fought and Griffin stabbed Belton 22 times in the chest and abdomen, according to a forensic report. Four of the stabs were considered to be fatal. Griffin said after he ran back to his car and changed into clothes that were in his car from hiking earlier that day. When Griffin arrived home he told his girlfriend, Jessa Greiwe, what he did. The next day Greiwe drove to her parents’ house in Batesville, Ind., and told them what happened. They drove to the Batesville Police Department where she wrote a statement.
(04/12/11 2:48am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A jury was selected Monday for the murder trial of former IU professor Don Belton.Twelve jurors and two alternates were sworn in. This week they will decide if Michael J. Griffin, 26, should be charged with murder or with voluntary manslaughter — a lesser offense for which Griffin and his counsel will argue. In December 2009, Griffin was arrested and confessed to murdering IU professor Don C. Belton. According to a Bloomington Police Department affidavit, Griffin said he stabbed Belton to death two days after Belton sexually assaulted him. Defense attorney David Collins and prosecuting attorney Darcie Winkle questioned the potential jurors until they agreed upon a fair and impartial group. The jury selection process concluded at about 4:30 p.m., and the trial will continue at about 8:45 a.m. today.Potential jurors were weeded out based on how they responded to issues that surround the trial. They were asked questions such as, “What would you do if your own children were homosexual?” and “How would you respond if you were hit on by someone of the same sex?” They were also asked about their feelings toward the Iraq War and — as Griffin served with the Marine Corps in Iraq — their feelings toward war veterans. Winkle also told potential jurors of the burden that falls on the state, in this case Winkle, to prove Griffin murdered Belton. Collins later stated that if evidence exists that proves it was not murder, it is Winkle’s job to disprove that evidence as well. Finally, Collins asked the potential jurors, “Do you think every time somebody kills somebody, is it considered murder?”After different responses, Collins informed the jurors, who knew little or nothing about the trial.“What if I told you we are disputing that Michael Griffin stabbed Don Belton to death?” Collins said.Silence.“Now you want to know why. Even though the prosecutor said they don’t need to prove why,” Collins said. “If the evidence presents itself, you can consider something less than murder.”
(04/11/11 3:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The trial of Michael James Griffin, who allegedly murdered English professor Don Belton in December 2009, begins today with jury selection.Belton, 53, taught creative writing for IU’s English department during the 2008-09 school year. He worked and lived in Philadelphia before coming to Indiana.Griffin, now 26, graduated from Bloomington High School South before serving in the Marine Corps, where he fought in the battle of Fallujah and earned a purple heart. Bloomington Police Department arrested Griffin, and he confessed to murdering Belton, according to the police affidavit.Monroe Circuit Judge Teresa Harper will oversee the trial, which is scheduled to take place every day this week in the Monroe County Justice Building.Continue checking idsnews.com and the print edition of the Indiana Daily Student for further coverage of the trial.
(03/11/11 5:11am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU policy doesn’t allow the release of full records detailing where mandatory student fees are being spent. This includes the ledgers of the IU Student Association or any other student organization, so it is not clear if IUSA executives have given money to their own companies this year.Last year, however, the Indiana Daily Student obtained a non-redacted 2009-10 IUSA ledger, which revealed that two companies owned by members of the executive branch received IUSA funds.LiveArrive LLC, owned by then-Transportation Chief Ilya Rekhter, received $15,000 and Neil Kelty’s Thrive44 Strategy Group received two checks totaling more than $700.The document was used in an impeachment petition against Kelty, IUSA’s chief of staff, that recently went before the IUSA Congress and the Supreme Court.In October, when the IDS requested the ledger for the first time, Assistant Dean of Students Steve Veldkamp said, “All student government records are open to the public.”But when the IDS requested the 2010-11 ledger last month, IUSA Treasurer Sierra Hsieh said she must work with IU Legal, which concluded that some parts of the documents couldn’t be disclosed due to restrictions in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.FERPA is a federal law that sets requirements and guidelines for releasing student records and information. If a university is found to have routinely violated FERPA, it could lose federal funding.The full ledgers list recipients of money, how it’s distributed, its amount and when it’s mailed.The 2010-11 ledger did not list which students were reimbursed, nor which companies received checks. IUSA budgets show what category of money is being spent, but not where the money ends up.Beth Cate, IU’s associate general counsel, said IU can’t release records it believes could be used to identify a student.According to the state’s Access to Public Records Act, documents like these should be open record, but the statute also states releases can’t violate federal law such as FERPA.The IUSA documents not being released include some related to the GPS bus tracking debate, such as disclosures of conflict of interest or commitment.This means any student organization, including IUSA, could be using money without disclosing the details to the public.
(03/08/11 5:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>This story originally ran in two parts. See Congress investigates below for the beginning of the second part.
(11/29/10 4:19am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>As the orange glow of napalm was strewn across Vietnam — fire storms that wiped out villages and burned through civilizations — executives from its manufacturer, Dow Chemical Company, conducted job interviews with IU students in the Kelley School of Business.On Oct. 30, 1967, about 100 students staged a sit-in against the company.According to an Indiana Daily Student article, then-sophomore Dan Kaplan, a member of Students for a Democratic Society, gave the company’s representatives an ultimatum: Leave within five minutes and do not do anymore recruiting, or the protesters would come in.“Times were heavy back then,” said Marc Haggerty, an alumnus and Vietnam War veteran.No one left, and about 40 protesters barged through the door, which a few men inside attempted to hold shut.According to the IDS article, police arrived, arrested 35 students who remained at the protest and injured two — including a graduate student who suffered a concussion.“If we’re going to have these war-people recruiting on campus, what kind of welcome are we going to give them? What kind of welcome are we going to be allowed to give them?” Haggerty said.Five years before the protests, IU trustees designated Dunn Meadow as a place for free speech and protest. But many of the major demonstrations the University witnessed in the late ’60s and early ’70s did not happen in the meadow. Instead, Dunn Meadow became a meeting place — a safe zone for students to join and decide what steps to take next. Thousands would come for voice votes, rallies and discussions, and the hundreds who wished to carry out the plans would continue elsewhere on campus — Showalter Fountain, Bryan Hall or the IU Auditorium. Tensions brewed between the anti-Vietnam and pro-Vietnam students on campus in the late ’60s. And although Indiana is traditionally a right-wing state, Haggerty said Bloomington started to see a wave of left-wings take root.“The counterculture surged,” Haggerty said. “People came from everywhere.”At a rally in Dunn Meadow in April 1967, about 500 students gathered to support U.S. policy on the Vietnam War. “I say the majority of students are behind the government’s policy in Vietnam,” Robert F. Turner, state chairman of the Student Committee for Victory in Vietnam, said in an IDS article.However, by the late ’60s, student opinion had changed about the war. On Oct. 15, 1969, an estimated 3,500 students blocked Seventh Street for almost half an hour as they marched to Dunn Meadow in protest of the war, according to an IDS article. They carried candles and chanted “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the Viet Cong is gonna win,” “End the war now” and “Peace.”In spring 1969, the student body also faced another issue that hit closer to home. IU administration announced a 68 percent tuition increase, and students responded with a nine-day boycott of classes.On April 30, students announced their demands, which asked the administration to declare a freeze on the tuition increase, to allow an elected student committee with parity — a veto vote — to work with administrators on the budget, to have a graduated tuition based on the ability to pay and to have no tuition by 1972.Most of the decisions on the boycott and demands were made by vocal votes counted from about 8,000 students in a Dunn Meadow protest. But the day before the boycott ended, approximately 130 black students and faculty, led by then-graduate student Rollo Turner, entered Ballantine Hall during an administrative meeting and demanded the Board of Trustees come to the building.“The next thing I know is that these students, I think all of them, had the administration locked up in a room, and all the police in the world were called, including me,” said Tom Berry, the Monroe County prosecutor from 1966 to 1973.The lock-in resulted in a grand jury indictment of nine people on misdemeanor charges of rout.“In any event, the grand jury did indict, and I learned the hard way that the grand juries tend to indict when maybe they shouldn’t,” Berry said. “So they indicted, and then I was stuck with this strange trial, which of course ended up in acquittal — probably rightfully so.”Although the ’60s came with political turmoil, it also came with another stigma — sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Counterculture students would throw parties, or tribal acid-induced sex-rock-extravaganzas, at Dunn Meadow and the alumni center, Haggerty said. And the Screaming Gypsy Bandits — one of Bloomington’s only rock bands in the ’60s — always played, he said.“We didn’t know how big of a dose we had taken,” Haggerty said.The typical scene: men in dresses wearing war paint and women with no tops while band members performed sexual acts on stage. Marijuana and LSD were passed around freely while the crowd pulsated — in another world, Haggerty said. Nobody was ever arrested because it would be too big of an embarrassment for the University, he said.On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard members fixated their bayonets at Kent State University and shot at a group of protesters, killing four students. The shooting spawned more than 400 campus protests across the United States, IU included.Students and Bloomington locals gathered at the alumni center to figure out how they could get through to administrators. The student body president at the time, Keith Parker, was also a Black Panther who had gone to Hanoi, Vietnam, with other IU Student Association executives to meet with Vietnam revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh during the war. But Parker was not able to set up a meeting with then IU President Joseph Sutton, Haggerty said.On May 12, 1970, about 1,000 people showed up at Alumni Hall, Haggerty said. He suggested the crowd shut down Bryan Hall, the administration building, until IU executives agreed to meet. The next morning, about 300 people arrived in Dunn Meadow bearing chains and padlocks. They walked to Bryan Hall, bound themselves to the doors and sat there, waiting.As every successive wave of students left their classrooms, the rumors started to spread. By noon, 3,000 people were at the building, which shut down traffic, Haggerty said.Then-Monroe County Sheriff Clifford Thrasher lined Third Street “with the boys,” prepared with shields, tear gas and shotguns, Haggerty said. But before the police could act, Sutton delivered a message calling for a publicized meeting in the IU Auditorium.“We’ll take the fucking streets later,” former student Greg Hess said as the crowd began to disperse.Police started sifting through the crowd — while Thrasher looked for someone who said that profanity in his presence. Hess was arrested, his case eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court and cited in law textbooks throughout the nation, Haggerty said.For Haggerty and the other students of the ’60s and ’70s, times were rough and demonstrations were the only option. But today’s students are a different breed, Haggerty said.“Spoiled. Privileged. Elite.”
(11/02/10 4:41am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>An arrest was made Monday in the robbery battery case that took place at 4:06 a.m. Sunday, where allegedly a group of African-Americans used racial slurs, and attacked and robbed a group of Asian students.IU police executed a search warrant at 4 p.m. Monday on the residence of suspect Terry Lee Campbell, Jr., 18, in Forest Quad, according to an IU Police Department press release.Campbell was not at his residence. At 9:58 p.m. officers received a tip that Campbell was at Read Center and arrested him without incident for the initial charges of robbery and battery with serious bodily injury.The investigation will continue with additional arrests anticipated.In response to the incident, two freshmen, William Zhao and Chika Agwu, are hoping Sunday’s “crisis” can bring people together.Zhao, who is Chinese, and Agwu, who is Nigerian, are members of the U.S.-China Alliance. They are good friends: one happens to be African-American, the other Asian. But they said they want to get different IU clubs together, sit down and create a promotional event to re-energize the campus in light of this event.Members of the U.S.-China Alliance have organized an urgent callout meeting at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Asian Culture Center, where Zhao and Agwu said hopefully some kinks will get worked out. The callout meeting invites everyone to discuss the incident and what should be done in its wake. The Asian-American Alliance will be there to talk about causes of violence against Asian-Americans.With the work the U.S-China Alliance is doing, Zhao said he wants to take this issue to the entire campus.“We do not want to just work within the organization,” Zhao said. “We want to promote around campus.”Zhao and Agwu said they realize that the crime makes African-Americans look bad. Obviously, a handful of people do not represent an entire black community, Agwu said, just how a black organization can not be a spokesperson for all black people.“I don’t like the way its been publicized,” Agwu said, adding how it is natural for people to form judgements of people, but it’s whether or not you take action on the judgement.This is the first time being in the United States for a lot of international students, Zhao said. They come from a place where they are not used to seeing black or white people, which makes them cautious being in the U.S.Eric Love, director for the IU Office of Diversity Education, agrees with Zhao. It makes it even more difficult when students are visiting here from another country, Love said.“This incident might hinder that even more,” Zhao said. Zhao and Agwu said they want to break down the walls that divide races and groups of people and create an environment where people can live together and learn from one another.“It’s a good feeling when I’m walking and people say hi or wave to me,” Zhao said. “It makes you feel at home.”
(11/01/10 3:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A 19-year-old woman reported being raped early Saturday, said IU Chief of Police Keith Cash.The woman, a non-IU student, said at 1:38 a.m. she was separated from her friends for about 20 minutes in a wooded area on North Jordan Avenue. Her friends went to a nearby house.Her friends found her in the wooded area and called the police after she told them she was raped. The victim did not provide a description of the attacker, but a rape evidence kit was issued. IUPD will interview the woman again Monday, Cash said.If anyone has information regarding the assault, they can contact IU Police Department at 812-855-4111.
(11/01/10 3:11am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A group of African-Americans attacked and robbed a group of Asian students after they used derogatory words to label the Asian students, IU Chief of Police Keith Cash said.Eight Asian IU students were walking to Forest Quad B tower at 4 a.m. Sunday when a group of three or four African-American men made racial remarks directed at the group. Words were exchanged between parties, and it turned into a fight, Cash said.Two of the Asian students were battered and three were robbed. A 19-year-old man had a cut to his mouth and was taken to Bloomington Hospital. Another Asian student was reportedly struck in the head and was robbed of his iPad, but he did not require medical treatment. Another student had his iPod stolen, and a third had his cell phone taken, Cash said.Police are investigating the case. If anyone has information regarding the assault, they can contact IU Police Department at 812-855-4111.
(10/22/10 4:17am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A photo of Harvey Phillips, distinguished professor emeritus and life-long tuba player, hangs on the wall of his protege, professor of tuba Dan Perantoni.It hangs with other well-known, but now deceased musicians. Phillips, 80, died in his home Wednesday of Parkinson’s disease.Perantoni said the musician did for tuba what Bob Knight did for Indiana basketball — positively speaking.“Phillips was the busiest tuba player — ever,” Perantoni said.Phillips began his career as a teenager in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Band. He also did freelance work composing jingles from 1950 to 1971 while playing around the world in various bands and orchestras. In 1954, he helped found the New York Brass Quintet, and he joined the IU faculty in 1971.Over time, the tuba player garnered dozens of honors. He was the first wind instrument player to be inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, and in 2008, he received the IU President’s Medal for Excellence — one of the highest honors a president can bestow. Even the former governor of his home state, Missouri, declared a weekend to be “Harvey Phillips Weekend” in 1985.Phillips changed the way musicians and critics thought of the tuba.He made people listen, and in return, “ ... all brass players and all music benefitted,” Perantoni said.Phillips’ tuba solos captured composers’ attention, which caused them to compose specifically for the instrument.“The tuba is a musical instrument just like anything else,” Perantoni said. “I can put many words to it. That’s the good thing about brass instruments.”Phillips was founder and president of the Harvey Phillips Foundation, Inc., which sponsors several worldwide music events to bring tuba players together. One of his favorite events, Perantoni said, was TubaChristmas.“Nobody loved Christmas more than Harvey,” he said.Octubafest, for which IU music students are currently preparing, is another annual event initiated by Phillips. The performance will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Ford-Crawford Hall.“Life goes on ... as Harvey would do,” Perantoni said.It was Phillips, Perantoni said, who lassoed him into playing tuba — Perantoni now occupies one of the offices Phillips used before he retired. Phillips is survived by his wife, Carol, and sons Jesse, Harvey Jr. and Thomas.Parkinson’s disease began to take its toll on Phillips during the last decade of his life, his wife Carol said. In 1998, after retiring from IU, Carol said he was trying to play a tune with no vibrato but couldn’t do it.Carol and Harvey would have been together for 57 years this February.“And I’d do it all over again,” Carol said.
(10/12/10 8:04pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Nick’s English Hut was burglarized sometime between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Monday, Bloomington Police Department Lt. David Drake said.An undisclosed amount of cash was taken from the cash drawer in the office area of Nick’s at 423 E. Kirkwood Ave. The back door that lead to the upstairs part of the pub was pried open. Nothing else was reported stolen or damaged. Evidence technicians dusted the cash drawer for fingerprints, Drake said. Anyone with information of the break-in can call BPD Detective Kevin Hill at 812-339-4477.
(10/12/10 6:09am)
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(10/06/10 3:28am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A Bloomington Police Department officer chased and captured a man after he broke into two businesses late Monday and early Tuesday on the 2000 block of South Rogers Street and stole various items.Michael S. Chambers, 31, confessed to the crime after video surveillance from one of the businesses showed him breaking in, BPD Lt. David Drake said reading a police report. He has preliminary charges of two counts of burglary, two counts of theft and two counts of criminal mischief, Drake said.Chambers admitted to breaking the glass door to Aba Auto Sales and Services, reaching in the hole in the glass and stealing a key. At about 2:49 a.m. he allegedly broke into a mini mart next to the auto store and stole a hat, several cartons of cigarettes, lottery tickets and cash.An officer in the area heard the burglary alarm go off and saw three people, one being Chambers, run into nearby woods. All of them were stopped. Two were not arrested and said they ran because the alarm scared them, Drake said.Chambers is in the Monroe County Jail on a $40,000 surety and $500 cash bond.— Alex Benson
(10/05/10 4:36am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Who would have thought the Mexican drug war would have any effect on the IU Student Association?Mikaela Shaw was set to go to Mexico when her study abroad program was canceled because of security issues. She in turn accepted a year abroad program in Spain, a decision that forced her to resign from her IUSA Supreme Court justice seat. Her resignation led to IUSA President Michael Coleman going against a 10-year precedent of the Court nominating its own justices. Instead Coleman pushed the approval of his own nominee. Shaw submitted her official letter of resignation Monday. Today, IUSA congress will vote on Hannah Kinkead, Coleman’s nominee, to be selected as a Supreme Court justice. Last Tuesday, Coleman rejected the Supreme Court’s nominee, Matthew Bower.Coleman and Supreme Court Chief Justice Tara Maloney both said it’s not personal, it’s policy.Coleman said he is working within the IUSA constitution; however, the Court is concerned about Kinkead’s previous role with Coleman and the executive branch. Kinkead was a member of Coleman’s iUnity legislative relations team, but he said she played a limited role.Coleman said the reason he pushed for Kinkead was because she was a second alternate in the Supreme Court elections last spring.“The sooner we make a decision on this, the better. Why go through the whole interview process again?” Coleman said. “It’s been my logic the whole time.”The Court has no reason to believe Kinkead will be biased toward the executive branch, but they are more concerned with the perception of bias.The Court has the ability to request Kinkead to not be included in certain issues, Chief Justice Tara Maloney said.There has been frustration with Coleman’s “flat-out rejection” of Bower, Maloney said. Bower was the Court’s nominee after a lengthy application and interview process.The last 10 years have set the precedent of the Court nominating a justice and the president approving the nomination.Supreme Court members want a strong Court, and having a separation of branches is an aspect of that, Ronak Shah, associate Supreme Court justice said.
(09/23/10 3:36am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A thin layer of fog covered the open acreage of a farm on North Walnut Street on Wednesday morning. The cold air suppressed the smoldering scent allowing it to disperse at ground level. This would help the dogs — if they had any chance of smelling a body.Just before the road lies a creek, and there is a small turnout leading to a clearing. It was here where Bloomington Police Department and Argus Canine Search and Rescue joined to find a missing woman at 8 a.m.“We’re looking for Crystal Grubb. She went missing four days ago,” said BPD Lt. Faron Lake in a debriefing, standing where three male friends of Crystal last saw her, “Everyone take a profile of her and a map of the area.”Two officers light up cigarettes and another lights a cigarillo. A blue-eyed Border Collie and a Belgian Malinois are let out of separate vehicles while two teams are formed, each to head in separate directions.Sun beams break through the clouds and light up the forest. The air remains cool.Lt. Lake stays back with the squad cars. He is the commanding officer of the search and rescue. Also left behind is Sgt. John Kovach. He broke his foot off-duty and can only do minimal police work. He mostly waits and lights a cigarillo, puts it out, waits, lights it up again, puts it out and so on.Meanwhile, search teams are travelling up a hill and are not having luck except for a cell phone and a cigarette case, but it could be anyone’s. This area is notorious for people with no shelter and for people who cook methamphetamine. As the teams come back, Gatorades are handed out. Lt. David Drake searches westward down the creek. He finally returns at 10:30 a.m. looking defeated.“That’s a lot harder than I remember,” Drake said.“I was going to think we’d have to send someone out for you,” BPD officer Lloyd Hawkins said.The search and rescue team gets together again and plans their next and final attempt through the forest when a vehicle pulls into the lot.Three get out and hold each other’s hand while they walk in a line to the police. On the left is Susan Grubb, 27 and Crystal’s sister. In the middle is their aunt, Clarissa Jackson. She holds the hand of a small boy. “Think positive. Think positive. You gotta think positive,” Jackson said, walking hand-in-hand with Susan and the boy. Susan talks to the police and they leave.The team breaks up into two again, and they disappear in the forest. Dog barking is heard through the trees.Hawkins swipes a cigarette from another officer’s pack. His wife thinks he quit four years ago, but he’s trying, saying he only brought six for today. It’s nearly 12:30 p.m., clouds are cast over the clearing, and it looks gray, bringing a light rain. The forest is thick and dim-lit. Hawkins puts on his officer’s cap and sits on a chair in the rain. The rain slows and then stops. A strong wind blows and it slowly rains upon the few officers in the clearing.
(09/16/10 3:31am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Bryce Michael Leighton, a man who is facing preliminary charges in the death of a cab driver in July, was booked in the Monroe County Jail Tuesday.At 6:50 a.m., on July 20, Leighton, 21, lay intoxicated, half ejected through the back window of the Pontiac Grand Prix he was driving. Cab driver Gwendolynn Sanders, 31, died on impact.Bloomington Hospital determined Leighton had a blood alcohol content of .23, according to the affidavit. His bond is $100,000, and he will have a bail review hearing Friday. A trial has not yet been scheduled, but a pretrial conference is scheduled for Oct. 28. Leighton recently recovered from his injuries and was booked in jail for causing death when operating a motor vehicle with a BAC of .15 or more, causing death when operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, reckless homicide, theft and operating a motor vehicle without ever receiving a license. The charges are according to a probable cause affidavit for the case.Authorities believe Leighton was travelling between 50 to 60 mph before the accident.
(09/12/10 8:46pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU student Jarrod Polston, 18, of Greenwood, Ind., died Saturday while visiting friends at Ball State University.Polston drove to BSU with his roommate and friends for the weekend.Witnesses last saw him at 3 a.m. Saturday morning, said Jim Clevenger, Delaware County Coroner.His friends found him not breathing hours later in Studebaker West residence hall.He was pronounced dead at 10:49 a.m. Saturday at Ball Memorial Hospital, Clevenger said.Polston was drinking alcohol and using methadone, which caused him to vomit andchoke.Asphyxiation is most likely the cause of death, Clevenger said.IU sophomore and peer of Polston’s from their high school football team, Bryan Doucey, said Polston was “outgoing and happy.”“He was the kid you invited over to a get together. He was a character — definitely a character and fun-loving,” Doucey said.The investigation is still ongoing.Clevenger said it will be a few weeks until the toxicology results are available.“The death of any student is a tragedy, especially at such a young age. We at Ball State extend our sympathies to his family and friends at IU,” said Tony Proudfoot, BSU associate vice president for Marketing and Communications.BSU will be working with local police agencies who are investigating the incident where alcohol was consumed.From there, disciplinary action will or will not take place, Proudfoot said.Jarrod Polston’s father Carl Polston said his son was a great student and a great athlete. He was a person people “gravitated” toward.“It’s not often a parent can look up to their child, and I looked up to him,” Carl Polston said. “There’s nothing I can say that will give him justice.”— Alyssa Goldman contributed to this report.Continue checking idsnews.com for updates.
(09/10/10 2:22am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Four people were arrested Wednesday for armed robbery of an apartment.Three bandana-wearing males busted open an apartment door, drew their guns and had the three residents at gun point while they raided. The apartment was at the 2000 block of Brandon Court, and it was ransacked at 10:30 p.m., according to a Bloomington Police Department report read by Lt. David Drake.The robbers left the apartment with $800 to $900 cash, an Xbox 360 and a pair of Jordan basketball shoes. They left in a white four-door Honda driven by a female. The car was pulled over by BPD officer Tracey Headley who responded to the robbery call. More officers arrived to the car at Windslow and Walnut streets. The victims were then brought to the intersection and identified the suspects as the robbers.BPD found only one handgun, an Iver Johnson .22 semi-automatic, in the vehicle. The gun had been reported stolen. Three bags of marijuana were found and totalled 153 grams. The bandanas and game system were also found, but the other reported guns were not found. On Thursday, however, a silver handgun was found at the 600 block of Windslow Farm drive, according to the report. BPD is further investigating the case, and the victims of the robbery did not report any marijuana stolen. A statement from a suspect in the report though, said marijuana was taken from the apartment.The official arrests and charges are from the police report.Twenty-year-old Anthony G. Henderson was arrested for possession of a firearm, a class B felony, armed robbery, a class B felony, possession of more than 30 grams of marijuana, a class D felony, possession of stolen property, a class D felony, and probation violation. Twenty-year-old Cortal M. Rice, member of the Latin Kings gang from Chicago, was arrested for armed robbery, a class B felony, possession of marijuana more than 30 grams, a class D felony, possession of stolen property, a class D felony, and probation violation. Eighteen-year-old Timothy T. Taylor Jr. was arrested for armed robbery, a class B felony, possession of marijuana more than 30 grams, a class D felony, and carrying a handgun without a license, a class A misdemeanor.Twenty-year-old Justine N. Smith was arrested for assisting a criminal, a class D felony, possession of marijuana more than 30 grams, a class D felony, possession of stolen property, a class D felony, possession of handgun without a license, a class A misdemeanor, and probation violation.
(09/01/10 3:52am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Welcome Week may top Little 500 when it comes to alcohol-related tickets. Indiana State Excise Police issued 138 tickets — nearly all alcohol related — to 75 people during IU’s Welcome Week from Aug. 25 to 28, according to an Excise news release.Out of those 138 tickets, 61 were to minors cited for illegal possession of alcohol, 32 were to minors cited for offenses related to false ID’s and 29 were to minors cited for making a false statement of age to an alcohol business. There were nine adults who were cited for providing alcohol to minors and seven others who were cited for other related crimes, according to the release. Monroe County CARES provided a grant allowing for more law enforcement during Welcome Week. “In the last few years, individual excise officers have written more tickets during Welcome Week than during IU’s Little 500,” said Excise Officer Travis Thickstun in the news release.