Crime Stoppers Announces Newly Elected Board Members
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Staff Report-
The Kosciusko County branch of Crime Stoppers announced its newly elected board members.
The new Kosciusko County Crime Stoppers board members are faces that many citizens have been familiar with over the years in the community.
Larry Yeiter, Atwood, was a master trooper with the Indiana State Police for more than 20 years. Yeiter is also a member of the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department Merit Board.
C. Alan Rovenstine, Atwood, began as a Kosciusko County Sheriff's deputy in the 1960s and was also a four-term elected sheriff of Kosciusko County.
Ron Truex, Atwood, is the general manager and president of Creighton Brother LLC. Truex is also the president of the Kosciusko County Board of Commissioners.
Serving as the liaison is Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department detective John Hart. Hart has been with the sheriff's department since 1987 and is also a Tippecanoe Valley school resource officer.
Crime Stoppers is a not-for-profit organization that was started to give citizens an incentive to provide anonymous information to law enforcement. Kosciusko County is part of the South Bend regional Crime Stopper area where calls initially are received. Anonymous information is then disseminated to the appropriate county and agency of where the crime actually occurred. Callers are given an I.D. number for reference and are contacted back if the information leads to an arrest or indictment. Crime stoppers does not use caller I.D. which encourages otherwise reluctant callers to provide information.Kosciusko County was provided with available funding through an endowment from Pierceton residents Fred and Nedra Beebe's estate.
