A Michigan City man is facing charges for shooting his brother dead Tuesday after claiming the man grabbed his steering wheel and caused him to crash into a tree, documents allege. Julian Ellis, 40, was charged Wednesday with murder and […]
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A jury trial opened Tuesday for a man who allegedly killed a friend haggling over prices in a drug deal. Michael Baker, 25, of Merrillville, was charged Dec. 7 with two counts of murder and one count of attempted dealing
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After Angelia Cross got into a war of words with a man she hit in a Gary car wreck, she “hunted” him down and pointed him out so her husband could shoot him, an affidavit states. Cross, 47, is now
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An East Chicago man is facing charges after buying fentanyl-laced cocaine for a woman he knew who later overdosed. Emecghia T. James, 45, was charged Thursday with dealing a controlled substance resulting in death, a Level 1 felony, and four
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A Gary man is facing charges after leading cops on a high-speed chase from Gary to Dyer, then slamming head-on into a cop car, an affidavit shows. Omar Muhammad, 40, was charged Sept. 27 with several felonies, including resisting law
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Fight at Schererville YMCA An Illinois man faces charges for a fight at the Schererville YMCA on Sept. 7 after a “heated” basketball game. Montrell L. Thomas, 19, of Sauk Village, is charged with battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
A defense lawyer is set to receive psychological records from the Lake County Jail for a co-defendant in a Hammond home invasion case. Garrett Whittenburg, 41, of Chicago, remains charged as an accomplice in a Nov. 13, 2021, Hammond home
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A Sin City Deciples “founder” was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison. A federal jury convicted Kenneth McGhee, a.k.a “Sonny”, or “Angel”, 75, of Gary, in November with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and
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Contractor charged again with theft A Merrillville man faces charges for defrauding a Hammond woman out of $9,000 after he promised to work on her home. Michael C. Edwards, 41, was charged Sept. 9 with fraud. He had not been
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A Merrillville woman was charged Thursday with killing her brother. A witness said it was an “accident” on her birthday. Myriah “Yaya” Stokes, 20, is charged with reckless homicide and criminal recklessness. She hasn’t been apprehended and is ordered held
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