Police Beat 2.24.2012
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Daniel [email protected]
Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Dept. detectives arrested a Leesburg man Thursday on child molestation charges involving a 14-year-old girl.
Grover Vandyke Layne, 49, of 109 W Church St., Leesburg, was arrested and preliminarily charged with three counts of felony child molestation Thursday afternoon.
KCSD detectives charged Layne with two Class A felony and one Class B felony counts of child molestation Thursday after a recent allegation was investigated.
Detectives stated Layne confessed to having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old female on various occasions. During the investigation it was determined that Layne had originally begun having sex with the juvenile when she was 12 years old.
The Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office has placed a $20,000 bond on Layne, who is currently located in the Kosciusko County Jail.
Dog Finds Meth
Officers arrested two individuals on meth and theft charges from a local business.
Kosciusko County Dispatch Center received a report of two suspicious females Tuesday at 11:33 a.m. at the Tractor Supply Company, 3294 E. U.S. 30, Warsaw. A description of the vehicle as it left was radioed to officers, who located it a short time afterward near the Dollar General Store in the Lake Village Plaza.
Warsaw Police Dept. and Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Dept. deputies confronted the two female occupants of the parked vehicle. The suspects were identified as Laurianne Foster, 32, of 3699 N. CR 175E, Warsaw, and Jessica Dawn Konkle, 32, of 309 Main St., Mentone.
As officers were interviewing the women, it was discovered that Foster had an active warrant for check deception through Kosciusko County. A WPD canine unit also had arrived at the location, which immediately alerted on the suspect vehicle.
Methamphetamine was located inside the vehicle as officers also discovered Konkle had allegedly been shoplifting from the TSC store previously.
Foster was preliminarily charged with possession of methamphetamine while Konkle was preliminarily charged with theft/shoplifting. Both females were transported to the Kosciusko County Jail and were being held on individual $2,000 bond.[[In-content Ad]]
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Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Dept. detectives arrested a Leesburg man Thursday on child molestation charges involving a 14-year-old girl.
Grover Vandyke Layne, 49, of 109 W Church St., Leesburg, was arrested and preliminarily charged with three counts of felony child molestation Thursday afternoon.
KCSD detectives charged Layne with two Class A felony and one Class B felony counts of child molestation Thursday after a recent allegation was investigated.
Detectives stated Layne confessed to having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old female on various occasions. During the investigation it was determined that Layne had originally begun having sex with the juvenile when she was 12 years old.
The Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office has placed a $20,000 bond on Layne, who is currently located in the Kosciusko County Jail.
Dog Finds Meth
Officers arrested two individuals on meth and theft charges from a local business.
Kosciusko County Dispatch Center received a report of two suspicious females Tuesday at 11:33 a.m. at the Tractor Supply Company, 3294 E. U.S. 30, Warsaw. A description of the vehicle as it left was radioed to officers, who located it a short time afterward near the Dollar General Store in the Lake Village Plaza.
Warsaw Police Dept. and Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Dept. deputies confronted the two female occupants of the parked vehicle. The suspects were identified as Laurianne Foster, 32, of 3699 N. CR 175E, Warsaw, and Jessica Dawn Konkle, 32, of 309 Main St., Mentone.
As officers were interviewing the women, it was discovered that Foster had an active warrant for check deception through Kosciusko County. A WPD canine unit also had arrived at the location, which immediately alerted on the suspect vehicle.
Methamphetamine was located inside the vehicle as officers also discovered Konkle had allegedly been shoplifting from the TSC store previously.
Foster was preliminarily charged with possession of methamphetamine while Konkle was preliminarily charged with theft/shoplifting. Both females were transported to the Kosciusko County Jail and were being held on individual $2,000 bond.[[In-content Ad]]
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