With COVID-19 keeping a lot of people home in 2020, there were fewer people out committing crimes in northeast Indiana. Although, not so much in Steuben County, where they had an approximately 30% increase in the number of criminal charges filed compared to previous years. Overall criminal filings in 2020 were down compared to 2019, with DeKalb, LaGrange and Noble county prosecutors all filling fewer charges last year than in previous years. Steuben County, however, went the opposite direction, seeing an increase in filings. As the least populous county in the area, Steuben usually has the lowest amount of filings of the four counties, but this past year it saw an unusual increase.