Kosciusko County officers have arrested four individuals Tuesday, including two who were located inside a police officer’s personal vehicle. While attempting to stop a vehicle at approximately 12:58 a.m. Tuesday morning, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s deputies began a pursuit northbound into the town of Leesburg on Ind. 15, according to a release from the sheriff’s department. The pursuit continued into the downtown area of Leesburg until the vehicle stopped in the 300 block of East Van Buren Street and all occupants fled the scene. Officers from different departments converged on the town, along with a Warsaw K-9 unit, but were unable to locate the suspects. Shortly before 10 a.m., deputies received an anonymous tip regarding one of the occupants, Brady Lee Shepherd, 24, Leesburg, who they then took into custody. Shepherd is being held on a failure to appear warrant. Shepherd had purportedly slept overnight in the gravel-pit south of town after he had exited the pursuit vehicle, the release states. Officers were notified at 11 a.m. that a Warsaw police officer had discovered two individuals sleeping in his personal pickup truck, parked next to his police vehicle at his residence. Bruce Kitson Tillman, Jr., 24, Mentone, and Santana Ann Collingsworth, 20, Warsaw, were taken into custody by city, county and state troopers without incident on the east side of Leesburg. Tillman and Collingsworth were arrested and preliminarily charged with resisting/fleeing law enforcement and unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle. They are both being held on individual $10,000 bonds at the Kosciusko County Jail. Information obtained during the apprehensions then led deputies and undercover officers to a location south of Warsaw involving a drug investigation. Deputies, along with Warsaw Police Narcotic Unit and Kosciusko County Drug Task Force officers, arrested Jordan Joseph Schultz, 25, of 1634 S. Ind. 15, Warsaw, at his residence on multiple charges. Officials from the Department of Child Services were sent to the scene after officers found two children inside the residence, which contained marijuana and manufactured methamphetamine. Schultz was arrested and preliminarily charged with felony neglect of dependents, possession of methamphetamine, manufacturing methamphetamine and on an outstanding probation violation warrant. Further investigation determined that Schultz had committed domestic battery in the presences of minors on the previous night involving a female victim. He was additional charged with that offense, along with felony strangulation, and is being held in the jail on a $4,000 bond.
