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'Shredded': toddler's injury was unsurvivable, pathologist says

2 days ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. --The mesentery, a word you may never have heard, links the bowels to the aorta and blood vessels. “The lifeblood,” Dr. Scott Wagner said on the stand Wednesday (June 4) at the Felony 1 neglect trial of Michael Allen, Jr. Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull is presiding. Allen, 35, is accused of delivering a blow so hard to his 17-month-old daughter’s abdomen that her mesentery was “shredded,” Wagner said. She died early on Feb. 25, 2021.
'She was gone:' mother recalls loss of her child at neglect trial

4 days ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind.---There are few things sadder than watching a mother cry over her dead child. But that’s what the court witnessed Tuesday when Kayla Vachon, a forklift operator who held down two jobs to financially support her family, briefly sobbed during her testimony in Allen Superior Court. On trial is Michael T. Allen,Jr., 35, her former partner and father of their 17-month-old daughter, Kaivonni. She died very early on February 25, 2021.
Another money laundering charge for another drug dealer - a trend?

5 days ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

Jamie Duffya few seconds ago1 min readFORT WAYNE, Ind. ---Yet another money laundering charge for an accused drug dealer. Leon Lanaila Harris, 51, who lives in a small home near Study Park southwest of downtown, was charged in March with three counts dealing in a narcotic drug, a level 4 felony; unlawful firearm possession by a felon, also a Level 4 felony, and three counts money laundering, Level 6.
Money laundering charge added to cocaine dealing accusations

6 days ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

FORT WAYNE, Ind. ---From January through April, 747 people in Allen County were arrested for drugs, either dealing or possession. It’s the second biggest category in state arrest data after traffic offenses. But there’s no category for money laundering, although the crime exists in state code. In Indiana, money laundering is a Level 6 felony, but can be enhanced to a Level 5 or Level 4 felony “depending on the value of the proceeds and the intent behind the actions,” state code says.
Two years in prison for Yoder man exposing himself

1 week ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. ---The first words out of the alleged perp’s mouth when Detective Brett Eley identified himself were telling. “Oh, s—t,” Billy Ray Creamer, Sr. uttered. “I know what this is about.”Creamer, Sr. , of Yoder, was accused of exposing himself to a minor, to whom he is related, on May 5 of last year, according to a probable cause affidavit written by Eley.
City detectives file charges against 3 men in crimes against children

2 weeks ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

FORT WAYNE, Ind. --The past two weeks have been busy ones for the Fort Wayne Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Section. This month, detectives arrested Rigoberto Jimenez Mandujano, 28, for rape and another charge involving sexual abuse of a 17-year-old autistic girl, court documents said. On May 9, the victim was crying in her school library. When she was asked why, she said she was “dirty” because of what happened at her grandmother’s house.
ISP gets a DNA 'hit' and a 1997 city rape is closed

2 weeks ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- It’s been a 28-year nightmare for the victim since she was grabbed from behind on a trail in Shoaff Park, dragged into the weeds, raped and beaten at knifepoint. While the woman is unknown; her pain is not. Luckily for law enforcement, she had the foresight to go to Parkview Hospital and the Sexual Assault Treatment Center where evidence was collected in a kit and sent to the Indiana State Police laboratory.
FWPD nabs two men for child porn; internet fuels growing scourge

2 weeks ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. --The descriptions are revolting. And if you read the probable cause too late in the day, the words and images might trouble your dreams. Because of the internet, child pornography has exploded. Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, based in London, UK, reports one in nine U.S. men are offenders, a shocking statistic.
Syrian rebel accused of war crimes tried in French court this month. The Probable Cause was there.

3 weeks ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

PARIS, France —-More than a decade ago, Majdi Nema joined the rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president who led the repressive and unimaginably cruel regime for 14 years. Assad’s presidency, inherited from his equally malignant father, marked nearly 50 years of torture, death and prisons so notorious the world was invited inside after Assad’s fall, cameras recording families weeping as they searched for any sign of a lost loved one.
'A civilized country:' French business lawyer explains business law, bankruptcy and hedge funds

4 weeks ago | theprobablecause.com | Jamie Duffy

ALENÇON, FRANCE ---In France, businesses who have a beef don’t take their argument to a civil court. They take it to a Tribunal de Commerce, a specialized court where the matter is judged by volunteer judges known as juges de commerce. These judges are businessmen elected by their peers and, after being elected, must undertake training. Any training is very important in France.