Kentucky Speedway Pays Kentucky State Police $300,000 For Track Security

Does anyone recall a discussion of the free security that IMPD, the Marion County Sheriff's Department and Indiana State Police provide at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for race events when the legislature agreed to provide $100 million in taxpayer financing for improvements at the track? I don't. I found this story in the Louisville Courier-Journal discussing the payment of a $300,000 overdue bill by Kentucky Speedway for security at the track owned by Speedway Motorsports interesting. The payment was reimbursement for security costs incurred during four racing events at the track in 2012 and 2013. According to the story, Kentucky State Police received the overdue payment one day after the Courier-Journal reported that the state police had been pressing the track for payment for months. The Kentucky Speedway is much smaller than the IMS, having a seating capacity of 117,000. It once again shows that Indianapolis taxpayers are forced to provide generous subsidies to sporting event owners that aren't provided elsewhere.

Police Wait Two Weeks To Report Murder Of Highly-Decorated Navy Commander Who Played Key Role In Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confessions

Navy Commander Alphonso Doss

Police in Orange Park, Florida waited two weeks before telling reporters that they were investigating the murder of Navy Commander Alphonso Doss, whose body was found in a hotel room on February 12, 2014. Doss wasn't just any navy commander. He led a team of interrogators at Guantanamo Bay who allegedly obtained confessions from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for masterminding a host of terrorist acts, including 9/11, after he was subjected to torture that included at least 183 water boarding sessions.

Orange Park police told reporters that they didn't reveal Doss' murder until this week "because there was no pressing need to do so." Police Chief Gary Goble only put out a press release on Doss' murder investigation after being contacted by a TV news reporter who had received a tip about Doss' death. According to a heavily redacted police report, Doss' body was found by a woman in the Astoria Hotel near Jacksonville Naval Air Station. The press release and police report did not provide details about the manner of his killing. “Sometimes when you get things in the news, it doesn’t help you,” Goble said. “Sometimes you’ve got to keep it close to the vest.”

The news article appearing in Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union went out of its way to discredit Doss, who had been previously described as a highly-decorated naval officer prior to his promotion as a naval commander two years ago. The news article claimed that Doss had been leading "a troubled life" following the foreclosure of his home, a divorce from his wife and an arrest for driving under the influence. The foreclosure of his home was not by a bank for failing to make mortgage payments but rather a homeowner's association for failing to pay $1,369 in homeowner's association fees and collection costs. The report claimed he was going through a bitter divorce with his wife, although it acknowledged no records of a divorce proceeding were available, and had been living at the hotel where his body was discovered. The DUI arrest occurred nearly two years ago, the same year he was promoted to navy commander. A local Fox News affiliate claims he was being forced into early retirement because of that DUI. That report also claims that he had tried reaching out to a friend in voice mail messages left on her phone for help just days before he was killed.

Doss' hometown newspaper detailed his distinguished service in the Navy when it reported on his promotion to navy commander two years ago. Doss enlisted in the Navy after graduating from high school in Ruleville, Florida. He completed combat missions on two naval ships in the late 1980s and early 1990s and became a commissioned officer in 1996. Doss completed secret counter-drug missions in the Caribbean and South America while stationed aboard the USS Connolly during the late 1990s. In 2006, the Deputy Secretary of Navy assigned Doss to a team of interrogators who questioned suspected enemy-combatants at Guantanamo Bay. It was during that assignment that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed allegedly confessed his role in masterminding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as well as the first World Trade Center bombing, the Bali nightclub bombings, shoe bomber Richard Reid's foiled attempt to blow up a commercial airplane, the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniels Pearl and the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II and President Bill Clinton, among many other terrorist acts.

According to the Union-Times, Doss began a temporary assignment at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit in Jacksonville after working at the Naval Education and Training Command in Pensacola where he’d been stationed since November 2011. Doss’ awards included the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medal, the Joint Service Achievement medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medal and the Good Conduct medal.

The so-called confessions of Mohammed have been a source of controversy since they were first announced. He was captured in Pakistan in 2003 by the CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency. Mohammed, who was born in Kuwait, joined the Muslim Brotherhood at the age of 16 and came to the United States where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering while attending a college in North Carolina. From there, he went to Pakistan where he began working with the U.S-backed rebel forces seeking to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. He popped up in numerous terrorist hot spots in the ensuing years, from Bosnia to the Philippines.

Mohammed was held at various secret prisons operated by the U.S. following his capture in 2003 where detainees were subject to interrogations that included torture. CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress in 2008 that Mohammed had been subject to torture during his interrogations, which included being water boarded 183 times. Mohammed later told a representatives of the Red Cross that he provided false information to his interrogators to end the mistreatment. Mohammed's two small children were also subject to abusive interrogation.

The Bush administration had originally planned to try Mohammed for his supposed role in the 9/11 attacks in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, but the Obama administration decided instead that he would be tried in a federal civilian court in New York. Attorney General later discarded the planned federal civilian trial under political pressure and moved the proceedings back to Guantanamo Bay for a military tribunal trial. The case isn't expected to be tried until 2015, if it ever occurs. If it does occur, it's now for certain that Mohammed's key interrogator won't be called as a witness at his trial. After all, it's going to be a fake trial since anyone with their eyes open has long since figured out that 9/11 was an inside job carried out by rogue forces within our own government, not some make-believe terrorists hiding out in caves in Afghanistan.

It Requires Suspending Disbelief To Read A Tully Column

It's pretty sad watching the incredible shrinking of Star political columnist Matt Tully to irrelevance. This past week, he set off an avalanche of criticism when he wholeheartedly embraced public funding for a new soccer stadium in a column chocked full of misrepresentations and rose-colored glass viewing of a subject that hits a raw nerve with an increasingly impatient public fed up with all of the corporate welfare happenings in Indianapolis.

A discontented public was further enraged when news reports told of how the Ballard administration was holding hostage a plan to make much-needed improvements to Tarkington Park in a challenged neighborhood unless the city council went along with providing $5.7 million in taxpayer subsidies to a big campaign contributor, Browning Investments, to build a new Whole Foods store in the booming Broad Ripple Village.

In his latest column discussing the Tarkington Park redevelopment plan, Tully omits any mention of its funding being tied to approval of the Whole Foods store, which he squarely came down in support of in an earlier column after many neighborhood activists opposed placing an intensive development plan that included yet another grocery store in an area that already has grocery shopping alternatives at the site awaiting redevelopment. Incredibly, Tully uses this column space to question using TIF funds to redevelop Tarkington Park while expressing no concerns for using TIF funds in an area that is already booming with development.

But as much as I want to jump on board with the plan, there’s a glaring issue that must be addressed. It’s an issue that mars so many of the social and governmental programs that many of us support: They too often treat symptoms and not core problems. They too often bring short-term help but not fundamental long-term change. They cost taxpayers dearly but don’t produce the results they deserve.

Tarkington Park’s biggest problem is not that it lacks a splash park or a stage. Its biggest problem is that it’s tucked into an area that, while close to wonderful neighborhoods, has been tagged justifiably as dangerous. Just across 38th Street, among the gas stations and fast-food joints, drug dealers and gang members have filled certain blocks with crime and violence. Last year alone, police were called to a pair of gas stations a block or so from the park more than 800 times . . .

But the problems facing Tarkington Park go much deeper than money. If families felt safe and secure, the park even as it is now would be filled most nice afternoons with children swinging, playing and running around. The problem for Tarkington Park is that the deeper issues facing the neighborhood to the south have scared away park users and business investors. And when compared to park redevelopments that have truly improved neighborhoods in other cities, such as Cincinnati, this investment is actually far too small.

Let’s improve the park. But before the checkbook is opened, let’s make sure we do everything possible to improve the neighborhood’s deeper problems.

So let's get this straight. Tully wants us to do more research before spending money on public improvements in a blighted neighborhood, but he's all for borrowing nearly $90 million and writing a check to a Turkish businessman to build a new soccer stadium we need as much as another hole in our heads, or writing a check to Browning Investments for $5.7 million to build a chain grocery store in an already over-developed, booming part of town. Has this guy drunk so much of the corporate welfare Kool-Aid that he's incapable of rational thought? And Gannett wonders why everyone is dropping their subscriptions to the Star.

Is A $25,000 Surety Bond Appropriate Bail For An Attempted Murderer?

Family members of Shirley Justice were outraged after Marion Superior Court Judge Grant Hawkins yesterday set bail at just $25,000 for her ex-husband, Christopher Justice, a man accused of unloading 13 bullets into her body fired from two guns in front of a day care center in broad daylight over a child custody dispute that left Shirley hospitalized in critical condition. Christopher Justice initially fled the state of Indiana after committing the dastardly crime before family members eventually negotiated his voluntary return to police custody the following day to face charges. Christopher turned himself in to Lexington, Kentucky police where he fled, and he was extradited back to Indianapolis where he was formally charged with attempted murder.

Criminal law is not my area of expertise, but I was stunned to see bond set so low in the case. Justice's preliminary bond had been set at $100,000 before his appearance in court yesterday. Judge Hawkins said that Justice's bond had not actually been lowered to $25,000 according to the Indianapolis Star. "The $100,000 was really to get him here," Hawkins said. "Once Christopher Justice was extradited to Indianapolis, attorneys agreed on a $10,000 bond starting point. Hawkins raised that to $25,000 Thursday," the Star reported. Really?

So the crime Justice is charged with is attempted murder, which has traditionally been classified as a Class A felony and which will now be classified as a Level 1 felony under changes made in the Criminal Code by the legislature last year. According to Marion County's local criminal rules, bond for a Class A major felony is presumptively set at $50,000 surety bond. The bail schedule amount is supposed to double for each of several defined circumstances. One of those circumstances is that the crime involved a deadly weapon or serious bodily injury. Justice used two guns to riddle his ex-wife's body with 13 bullets. Yes, that circumstance is satisfied. The $25,000 amount set by Judge Hawkins is the presumptive bail amount in a case of domestic violence where the defendant has been charged with a Class C felony. According to the local rules, no bond amount can be set higher than $200,000. If Shirley had died and Christopher had faced murder charges, he would not have been eligible for bail. The state law governing bail procedures also sets forth a number of factors a court is to take into account in setting the amount of bail. Among those are the risk of flight, a factor clearly present in Justice's case.

The bail amount got me to thinking about that case up in Hamilton County where August Mendenhall was charged with attempted murder for supposedly trying to kill State Rep. Ed DeLaney, although as I've said before I don't believe that's what happened at all, even though a jury up there found him guilty of the crime. A magistrate in Hamilton County set bail for Mendenhall at $3 million because Mendenhall, a former native of Indiana, didn't have a current Indiana address and was deemed a flight risk. All of Mendenhall's immediate family members lived in Indiana where he had spent all but a short time of his life. Marion County's local rules also allow bail to be doubled if a defendant does not have an Indiana residence. Carmel police apprehended Mendenhall at the scene of the crime so he had no opportunity to flee the crime scene as was the case with Justice. There were no gunshots fired by Mendenhall. DeLaney only suffered minor injuries from a scuffle he had with Mendenhall after DeLaney claimed the gun jammed when Mendenhall attempted to fire it. Can anyone explain to me how it is possible for resulting bail amounts in criminal cases within the same state to vary so dramatically based on the same criminal charge? According to local trial rules, Judge Hawkins couldn't have set bail higher than $200,000, let alone the $3 million bail amount set in Mendenhall's case.

During a press conference with reporters yesterday, members of Shirley Justice's family and her attorneys discussed the case. Shirley's mother told reporters that Christopher had repeatedly threatened to kill her. She said that her daughter was convinced he would do it. Although she had obtained no contact orders against him in the past, none was active at the time he shot her. If Christopher is able to post bond, which is 10% of the $25,000 surety bond amount, or $2,500, he will be subject to house arrest and monitored by an ankle bracelet. Shirley's mother indicated that her daughter, who through no small miracle is lucky to be alive, was disheartened that her ex-husband might be able to post bond and be released from jail pending his trial. Her mother had previously assured her that he would remain locked up. She and her mother are worried that he may attempt to finish the job that he left unfinished. Making matters worse, Christopher's parents currently have temporary custody of the children, raising the possibility that he may have access to the children while she's laid up in a hospital bed struggling to recover from the near-fatal injuries her ex-husband inflicted upon her.

UPDATED: Judge Hawkins provided this additional explanation to WTHR-TV in response to the criticism of Shirley Justice's family for setting the bond so low:

In a statement, Judge Grant Hawkins explained the bond review. He described the case as a "very ugly shooting at a day care and a fellow on the run. You put a high bond on him to primarily get him back here."

Hawkins went on to say all but murder suspects have a right to a bond set by criteria in a matrix guideline.

The defendant's risk level gets first consideration. Judges examine employment, home stability, arrest records and convictions. Christopher Justice had one arrest but no convictions.

"There were instances where there [were] records of abuse that [were] documented. But it didn't go anywhere," confirmed Hart.

Next, the judge looked at the severity of the crime. Attempted murder is one of the most severe and bond can be set anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000 in attempted murder cases . . .

Hawkins says shooting outside a day care scored Justice negative points. While the one-time fugitive got positive points for his surrender and waiver of extradition from Kentucky back to Indiana.

In all cases, Hawkins said, "We have to respect everybody. Sometimes the dynamics obscure other issues." He said he "tried to find the balance."

So he scored him positively in his analysis for fleeing from justice and then later turning himself in and waiving extradition. Okay.

Ozdemir's Soccer Stadium Numbers Generated In Fantasyland According To LSA Fiscal Statement

An LSA analysis of projected tax revenues generated from the proposed $87 million soccer stadium Turkish businessman Ersal Ozdemir is trying to force Indiana taxpayers to finance for his new Indy Eleven professional soccer team, which is yet to play its first game, reveals that the revenue estimates to which he testified at the House Ways & Means Committee were totally fabricated. Ozdemir claimed in his testimony that the new stadium would generate approximately $8 million in new revenues, and he asked state lawmakers to agree to set aside $5 million a year in state revenue tax collections to fund debt service on bonds issued to construct his new stadium. Ozdemir's plan calls for the Capital Improvement Board to assume ownership of the new stadium, which means no property taxes will be paid on a sports venue that will be used entirely for his profit-making purposes, and taxpayers will be left holding the bag on the costs of maintaining and operating the stadium.

The House agreed to pledge up to $2 million for Ozdemir's soccer stadium, or $60 million over a 30-year period, far short of the $5 million a year he requested ($150 million over 30 years), even though the legislature's fiscal statement indicated that tax revenues generated from the stadium would not even approach the $2 million figure. LSA projects that the new soccer stadium would only generate between $416,000 and $862,000 annually in combined income and sales taxes. Ticket sales to soccer games and other events are estimated to generate a paltry sum between $198,000 and $417,000 annually in admissions taxes. Under the legislation passed by the House, the state contribution of $2 million a year would be reduced by the amount of admissions taxes collected annually. That means the Capital Improvement Board (i.e., Marion County taxpayers) would be picking up a multi-million dollar annual shortfall to finance the stadium.

The telling number in the LSA analysis is the total admissions taxes collected last year from Lucas Oil Stadium, Banker's Life Fieldhouse and Victory Field. Ticket sales to Colts, Pacers and Indians games, along with revenues generated from concerts and other events held at those venues, generated $8.3 million. The PSDA in Marion County generated $10.2 million in state income taxes and $3.9 million in sales taxes. I should point out that the PSDA revenues include revenues generated by the J.W. Marriott Place, Marriot Hotel Downtown, Hyatt Regency and Westin Hotels. If the revenue numbers from the hotels were backed out of those figures, the actual revenue collections would be substantially less.

The IBJ has a story on the variance in revenues projected by Ozdemir versus the Legislative Services Agency here. Ozdemir did not respond to the IBJ's request for more information on how he made his calculations. The Indiana House of Representatives passed the public handout to Ozdemir's new soccer team on a vote of 58-35, proving once again that we have the best legislature money can buy. Click here for the roll call vote in the House to see if your lawmaker was among those who think it's your civic duty to finance the soccer team of this mysterious Turkish businessman about whom so little is known, but who suddenly has bucket loads of money to distribute to politicians up and down the state, which leads them to be very generous with your tax dollars towards him.

Gary Airport Consultants Set To Score $2 Million From Privatization Deal

It's one of the main reasons corrupt people in power push for privatization of government assets. There are always the usual suspects who cash in big time from the consulting work that occasions the execution of a privatization agreement. The magical number for the pay day to the consultants for the 40-year privatization deal with Aviation Facilities for the Gary Airport is $2 million, which is about the same amount Indianapolis spent on consultants for its corrupt parking meter privatization deal with ACS.

The Northwest Indiana Times says the law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels is set to be paid $1 million, which is the exact tab paid to Ice Miller for Indy's parking meter deal. A firm owned by the ousted former head of the Indianapolis International Airport Authority, John Clark, could score a $500,000 pay off on top of the hundreds of thousands of dollars he's already been paid by the airport authority to steer contracts to pay-to-play contractors. The authority plans to use TIF funds to pay the fees.

The Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority is considering using its taxpayer-financed Airport Development Zone fund to pay consultants who arranged the 40-year privatization deal signed last month.

Total fees for those consultants could approach $2 million, but Thursday the airport panel deferred action on a resolution to make the payments . . .

The Airport Development Zone fund receives about $4 million per year from a tax increment financing district on the west end of Gary. A slice of property tax collections from both homeowners and businesses go into the fund . . .

The issue of who will pay consultants for the airport's privatization has been a thorny one for the authority because it does not have money in its budget to pay them.

The law firm on the project, Faegre Baker Daniels, has estimated its bill alone at close to $1 million, Cooper said.

The three other advisers on the privatization deal were JClark Aviation, of Atlanta, a firm headed by former Indianapolis CEO John Clark; A.C. Advisory Inc., of Chicago; and Hawthorne Strategy Group, of Chicago.

JClark Aviation stands to win the biggest single paycheck of those three. If the privatization deal is valued at $100 million, the firm will reap a $500,000 payday. At the least, JClark Aviation will be paid $200,000.

A.C. Advisory Inc. is due to get $250,000 for its services and Hawthorne Strategy Group $67,500. The three advisers combined also have a running tab for $60,000 in expenses.

The Airport Authority on Thursday authorized paying JClark Aviation $25,000 for expenses it incurred.

The Northwest Indiana Times notes that the authority has also hired an accounting firm to look into $10.4 million in over payments made to the authority by the Northwest Indiana Regional Development  Authority as a result of over billing by the authority. That over billing was uncovered by a State Board of Accounts audit. The story doesn't indicate who was responsible for the double-billing. The authority's interim director, B.R. Lane, wanted to assure members that there was no indication that the double-billing represented wrong-doing on anyone's part. Yeah, right.

Boondoggle Light Rail Back In Play

The Indiana House of Representatives under the leadership of Republicans prove once again that they are phony fiscal conservatives. The House amended the Senate's mass transit lite proposal, which would have limited the expanded mass transit system under a regional management authority to bus lines only, to restore the light rail component. The proposed light rail line from Noblesville to downtown Indianapolis would cost at least $1.75 billion and would never achieve a ridership level that would come even close to covering its nut, but the pay-to-play contractors pushing the legislation are only interested in an expanded mass transit system if there is massive public construction component that accompanies it for profiteering opportunities. Without a light rail system, there is no major public works project they require for those profit-making opportunities.

The plan still calls for levying a new local income tax on individual taxpayers to help fund the regional mass transit system, a double transit tax for Marion County taxpayers who are already paying tens of millions of dollars in property taxes annually to support IndyGo. The House earlier eliminated a corporate income tax that would require businesses to pay at least 10% of the costs of the system. The latest rendition of SB 176 has 10% of the revenue pie coming from sources other than the income tax and a 25% share that would be paid in the form of rider fares, which is totally speculative since nobody has any idea how many people would actually take advantage of an expanded mass transit system. Hoosiers love their cars, and it is highly unlikely that most suburban workers would give up their car for the bus or a train. Interestingly, the House removed Hendricks County from the proposal despite the fact that getting workers to those low-paying jobs at the warehouses out in Plainfield were supposedly one of the reasons for expanding mass transit to that area.

Bill Making Its Way Through Legislature Would Effectively End Access To Public Records Through Exorbitant Fees

Here's yet another example of the useless job the State House media is doing in protecting the rights of the public. There is a bill making its way through the legislature that would effectively deprive members of the public of the right to obtain access to public records by allowing governmental agencies to charge exorbitant fees to access those records. The South Bend Tribune had a story yesterday discussing the ramifications of HB 1306:

Many public records requests these days in Indiana aren't for budgets, minutes or agendas, but rather for the contents of e-mails between individual public officials or employees.

Those e-mails are public documents, even if a public official uses a private e-mail account, Indiana Public Access Counselor Luke Britt said during an information session held Wednesday at the Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce . . .

Indiana law says public access issues should be interpreted liberally in favor of access by the public, although the law allows some records to remain private.

"I'm pro-transparency and also pro-government. These laws are in place so the public knows how the government is operating," Britt said.

Public access is about far more than how government spends public money, Britt said. "It's also important to know how the government operates, the process and how decisions are made," he said.

There's a bill being considered in this session of the General Assembly — House Bill 1306 — that would allow government agencies to charge a fee to members of the public, the media and anyone else for a public records request that takes more than two hours to fulfill. The measure would allow a governmental office to charge the hourly salary of the employee handling the search or $20 per hour, whichever is less.

Britt said he's concerned about the potential for abuse if the measure passes. "If it passes, I hope it doesn't discourage governmental entities from putting information online because (Bill 1306) produces a revenue stream," he said.

You read that correctly. HB 1306 would allow governmental agencies to charge you $20 an hour to search for public records if an agency claims it takes more than 2 hours to search for the documents. Well guess what, every search will trigger at least a $20 fee to discourage members of the public from requesting critical information in our never-ending effort to keep our elected officials honest. An investigative committee of the Indianapolis City-County Council has been trying in vain for the past four months to pry out of the hands of the Ballard administration key records regarding the corrupt, 25-year, $20 million lease for the Regional Operations Center. Imagine the charge for those records if a member of the public had to request them instead of a city council committee.

You need to know who these lawmakers are who are behind this bill. HB 1306 is sponsored in the House by two members of the House Republican leadership team, State Representatives Bill Friend (R-Macy) and Kathy Richardson (R-Noblesville), and State Rep. Christine Hale (D-Indianapolis). The Senate sponsors are State Sen. Travis Holdman (R-Huntington), State Sen. Randy Head (R-Logansport) and State Sen. Jim Arnold (D-LaPorte).

Incredibly, this bill passed the House on an 86-8 vote so it's truly a bipartisan endeavor to block the public from accessing public records. According to the Indiana Law Blog, the Hoosier State Press Association has even supported the legislation. These people are at war with the public. Even the media is unabashedly working against your interests. They want to keep all of their dirty little government secrets out of your reach. It's just more evidence of the arrival of a totalitarian police state no different than the former Soviet Union. You better get used to living under tyrannical rule because it's here, baby.

Tippecanoe County Judge Used Government Computer And E-Mail Account For Re-Election Campaign

The Lafayette Journal-Courier reports on a red-faced judge after colleagues questioned him about using his county-issued computer and e-mail account to send out a campaign letter for his re-election bid. Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Gregory Donat told the Journal-Courier that he did not send out the campaign letter maliciously or intentionally using taxpayer resources. “I’m sorry. I did it, and I won’t do it again,” Donat said. “I didn’t think about that. I was clearly wrong about doing that. You sometimes get in a hurry.” Donat attributed his actions to a "mental lapse."

The Journal-Courier points out that Donat's "mental lapse" could constitute a crime, noting that it's a Class A misdemeanor for "a government employee [to] knowingly or intentionally use the property of the employee's government employer to ... [a]dvocate the election or defeat of a candidate." Donat's Republican primary opponent, Laura Zemen" told the newspaper that she was "disappointed" by Donat's action but did not intend to "make a big deal out of it. Tippecanoe County Clerk Christa Coffey said she was waiting on direction from her counsel on whether to pursue a formal review of Judge Donat's action as the county's chief elections officer. Because a judge is considered a state employee and not a county employee, Coffey thought any criminal investigation would be referred to the Indiana State Police and not the county sheriff's department. 

UPDATE: The Journal-Courier is reporting that the matter has been referred to the Indiana State Police for investigation.