A Warsaw man was arrested Thursday for battery and strangulation on the same woman he was convicted of battery against in October.
Cory Nathaniel Morgan, 20, of 504 E. Fort Wayne St., Warsaw, was booked into Kosciusko County Jail at 1:26 a.m. Thursday on a $2,000 bond.
He was charged with strangulation.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Morgan is facing three felony charges and a misdemeanor.
The strangulation charge resulted from a Dec. 31 incident with a woman in which he is also facing a misdemeanor charge of battery.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Morgan is also facing a felony battery charge because of a prior conviction.
Morgan was convicted of battery on the same woman Oct. 31 in Superior Court II. Stimeling Still Critical, Benefit Set A Tippecanoe Valley High School student is still in critical condition at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne from a Jan. 3 car accident.
Dylan Stimeling was airlifted to the Fort Wayne hospital and is being treated for head trauma and brain injuries.
TVHS students are hosting a spaghetti supper for Stimeling Jan. 27 at 4:30 p.m. in the high school commons before the boys basketball game against Manchester. It will be a free-will donation benefit supper.
Stimeling is a junior at TVHS.
All proceeds from the spaghetti supper will go to Dylan’s family to help with the medical costs. Whitko Locked Down Thursday SOUTH WHITLEY – Whitko High School was locked down Thursday as local police searched for a man allegedly stealing cars at gunpoint.
Whitko High School Assistant Principal Dave Parker said the school did initiate a preliminary lockdown for several hours due to the location of the incident. Students were kept in the school, and school was dismissed at the regular time.
Few details were available as of this morning, but the Times-Union has learned a suspect may be in custody in Fort Wayne.
South Whitley detectives were meeting this morning over the case.
Police said that around 8 a.m. Thursday, a subject described as a white male in his early thirties showed another man a gun during a fight at a local gas station.
