Jay Circuit News Today

Under the terms of a plea agreement —taken under advisement by Judge Brian Bade — Darnell's sentence could not exceed four years in prison.

Whitted last week was sentenced to 16 months of incarceration after pleading guilty to possession of a narcotic drug in Jay Circuit Court.

The nine-year sentence Kelly received for his Wayne County convictions will be served after he completes a 30-year term for voluntary manslaughter.

Testimony at his trial indicated Mata threatened his wife with a knife and refused to allow her to leave their apartment on Jan. 27.

Authorities allege both men tried to arrange sex with juveniles when they were actually communicating online with members of Predator Catchers Muncie.

A Portland man was sentenced this week to three years in prison for his role in a Randolph County break-in.

State police say after threatening to set fire to a Randolph County home owned by her mother and stepfather, a rural Redkey woman did exactly that.

A Yorktown man who tried to arrange sex with a 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to three years of electronic home detention.

Portland man charged in beer-bottle attack under false name PORTLAND, Ind. — A Portland resident was charged under a false name with attacking another man with a beer bottle. Wilmer Alexander-Garcia Mendez, 33, is now charged under his actual name with battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 5 felony carrying up to six years in prison. He is accused of striking a man in the head with a full beer bottle on Feb. 21 at a home in the 100 block of West McNeil Street. The victim, left b...