Man Jailed After Battering Two Warsaw police were called to a residence in the 600 block of Buffalo Street early this morning after a report of an intoxicated man with a knife who had battered a woman and child.
Warsaw Police Department, along with the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department, responded to the call at 12:57 a.m. today at 657 S. Buffalo St.
According to WPD, a female and a 10-year-old boy left the residence before police arrived.
Police found out from the female that Jeremy Lee Dawson, 26, was inside the residence with a knife and that he was intoxicated. The female and the child had both been battered.
Police went in, Dawson allegedly initially refused, before he dropped the knife and was taken into custody.
The female was taken to Kosciusko Community Hospital after she complained of being disoriented and light headed.
Multi-Township EMS was also on the scene.
Dawson was charged with aggravated battery in the presence of a minor, strangulation of the female and battery to a minor.
He was held on $2,000 bond in Kosciusko County Jail.
Wreck Lands One In Jail, One In Hospital NORTH WEBSTER – A Munster man was hospitalized and a Syracuse man was jailed after an early morning accident along Ind. 13 Tuesday.
County police responded to an accident on Ind. 13S, 1,000 feet south of Barbee Road, North Webster.
According to a report from the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department, Timothy R. Stidham, 28, North Hiawatha Drive, Syracuse, was northbound on Ind. 13 when the road conditions caused him to cross the center line and collide head-on with Donald K. Klosnoski, 35, East CR 225S, Winona Lake.
Klosnoski was driving a taxi cab.
A passenger in Klosnoski’s cab, Kevin Kisala, 39, Munster, was bleeding from the head at the scene.
Kisala was transported to Kosciusko Community Hospital before then being transported to Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne.
The report said Kisala would require plastic surgery to his head.
Kisala was discharged from Lutheran this morning.
Stidham was arrested on charges of driving while suspended causing bodily injury and booked into the Kosciusko County Jail on a $2,000 bond.
South Bend Man Brought In On Coke Charges After being picked up in Marshall County, a South Bend man was shipped to Kosciusko County on charges of dealing cocaine.
According to a probable cause affidavit from the Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s office, Eddie Valentino Harmon, 31, South Bend, sold cocaine to a confidential informant on two separate occasions.
The first sale took place July 25 in the parking lot of the Time Out Inn.
Harmon and the confidential informant agreed on the sale of 3.5 grams of cocaine. Once in possession, the drugs the informant obtained from Harmon were tested and found to be 2.11 grams of cocaine.
The second buy took place July 28 in the 400 block of South Buffalo Street.
Those drugs were also tested and found to be 2.35 grams of cocaine.
Information on why Harmon was arrested in Marshall County wasn’t available as of this morning.
He is being held on a $100,000 bond in Kosciusko County Jail.
Jamaican Phone Scam A Warsaw man reported an attempted phone scam to county police Tuesday night.
The Warsaw man told Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department deputies that he was contacted by someone claiming he had won a prize through Kmart.
The Warsaw man said this wasn’t possible as he didn’t shop at that store.
The number the call originated from was 876-444-8028.
An investigation found that number came from Jamaica and that similar scams came from the country.
The Warsaw man was told he had won $39,000 and that to collect on his prize he would only have to send a small amount in.
