Warsaw Man Faces Invasion Of Privacy ChargesA Warsaw man was arrested Sunday for two incidents of invasion of privacy against the same woman in October.
Chadd Leroy Shumaker, 36, was booked into the Kosciusko County Jail at 1:48 a.m Sunday on four counts of failure to appear and two counts of invasion of privacy. No bond was set.
The two counts of invasion of privacy arose out of separate incidents four days part.
For the first incident, court documents filed Oct. 23 list charges against Shumaker as invasion of privacy, a Class A misdemeanor, and intimidation, a Class A misdemeanor.
On Oct. 12, Warsaw Police Department officer Wayne D. Wilkie met with a woman in reference to questions about a protective order against Shumaker.
She told Wilkie that she was receiving phone calls and messages from Shumaker at all hours of the night, most of which were for no good reason. She said she had a protective order against Shumaker and that the only communication that is to take place between them was regarding their children. Most of the calls and messages were vulgar and threatening.
The victim played the voicemail messages for Wilkie.
In the first message, Shumaker was very angry and called the woman names and threatened to kill her. In the second message, he said that he didn’t care about the protective order and that no protective order in the world would keep him from walking right through and killing her with his bare hands. The third message was of the same nature.
Wilkie told the victim that she needed to start calling 911 every time she sees Shumaker in her neighborhood or wherever she is when she sees him. He also told her to keep and record everything that he sends or says to her.
The other charge of invasion of privacy, also a Class A misdemeanor, occurred about four days after the first incident.
At around 8:31 p.m. Oct. 16, dispatch advised WPD officer Miles Reichard that the victim was en route to WPD to report a protective order violation.
He met with her in the parking lot and she said she was receiving obscene messages from Shumaker. She said that she went to his father’s residence to try and get help with her vehicle. She started receiving messages from Shumaker that he saw her there and he was mad because he believed she was using drugs and that his father sold drugs out of his home.
She showed Reichard the messages from that day. Shumaker had accused her of making him angry and lying to him. He said that he would burn her car or take it because he has a key for it. He said he made an anonymous call about a meth lab at his father’s home and said he would call Department of Child Services on her if she ignored him.
Shumaker later reported the victim to DCS for using drugs.
Reichard called Shumaker and left him voicemail, asking to talk to him. When they got in touch, he reminded Shumaker about the protective order and said that he cannot contact the victim unless it is in reference to their children. He said he knew but he and the victim were having mutual discussions.
Almost two hours later, dispatch advised Reichard that Shumaker may have driven by the victim’s home, but he could not find him. The victim’s mother said when she was taking the trash out about a half hour earlier, she said a vehicle drove by the residence but she did not see the driver. Their home is at the end of a small neighborhood and they usually don’t have any random traffic through the street.
