Police found 15 Fentanyl patches in a shirt pocket and the underwear of Nichole Fritz, according to court documents.A soft-spoken man might have been drunk when he robbed a near-northeast-side Scott’s grocery store at gunpoint Tuesday.
The man walked up to the customer service counter in the store at 3109 N. Anthony Blvd. about 5:15 p.m., placed a semiautomatic pistol on the counter, handed the cashier a Disney “Toy Story” bag and told her to fill it with cash, a police report said.
The cashier told officers that throughout the robbery the man spoke in a calm, low voice and appeared to be intoxicated.
After she put the cash in the bag, the man ran to a waiting getaway car, police said.
The robber is described as having an average build, black with a dark complexion and in his late 40s. He had a short stubble beard that was partly gray and was wearing a black beanie cap, a red handkerchief around his neck, a brown Carhartt coat and dark-colored pants.
Accused molester text-messaged girl
A Fort Wayne man is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
The girl’s mother reported the molestation to police after she found several sexually explicit text messages that 22-year-old Joshua E. Cain had sent to her daughter, court documents said.
The girl initially denied that the two had a sexual relationship but later contacted police and told them that Cain had sex with her in April or May.
Cain admitted to sending the text messages but said he was just “joking around.” He denied having sex with her, according to a probable cause affidavit.
He was charged with two counts of child molesting and a single child solicitation charge.
He had not been arrested Wednesday evening.
Topeka officer faces meth charges
A deputy town marshal in LaGrange County was being held without bail on methamphetamine and official-misconduct charges after a two-month investigation by drug task force officers.
Zachary P. Miller, the deputy marshal for Topeka, was arrested Wednesday after numerous interviews by police in an investigation that spanned Noble and LaGrange counties.
The 28-year-old police officer faces charges of conspiracy to deal meth and three counts of official misconduct.
The Indiana Multi Agency Group Enforcement Drug Task Force, in conjunction with the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Department, worked the investigation.
