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An additional charge of robbery has been filed against a Fort Wayne man already accused of setting his ex-girlfriend’s apartment on fire, according to Allen Superior Court records filed Monday.
Lloyd Greene Jr., 27, of the 18000 block of Greentree Court, also faces formal charges of arson and burglary. He was being held in lieu of $45,000 bail.
Fort Wayne fire investigators said on April 20, Greene broke into his ex-girlfriend’s unit at Golfview Apartments, 6500 St. Joe Road, and started a fire in her bedroom. Upset over their recent breakup, Greene came into her apartment, piled clothing on her bed and set the materials on fire, court records said.
Police say Greene took the woman’s Dodge Durango after the fire, leaving the vehicle parked in an alley.
An Angola man was arrested Monday on seven preliminary felony counts of possession of child pornography, according to Indiana State Police.
Donald Sutton, 34, of Angola, turned himself in at the Steuben County Jail on Monday morning. He posted bond and was released the same day.
The arrest came after a four-month investigation. Police reported finding child pornography on Sutton’s computers. The computers were confiscated and will be further analyzed by the state police’s Cyber Crimes Unit.
A Kendallville man was in fair condition Monday following an early-morning stabbing, according to the Noble County prosecutor.
Police were notified just before 5 a.m. Monday of the stabbing by a 911 call investigators believe was made by a family member of the wounded, Prosecutor Steven Clouse said.
The stabbing took place in an apartment at 669 Dowling St., Kendallville. Jonathan Prater, 24, and Kara Newport, 19, were taken by ambulance to Fort Wayne’s Parkview Hospital. Prater was in fair condition Monday. No information on Newport’s condition was available.
No one else was at the Dowling Street apartment when the stabbing occurred, and Clouse said it was unclear what the relationship between Prater and Newport is.
No charges have been filed and no motive has been released.
Clouse declined to speculate on what transpired before the stabbing.
Fort Wayne police investigated two armed robberies Sunday, according to reports.
The first robbery was reported just after 8 a.m. Sunday at the Walgreens pharmacy at 1701 E. Paulding Road.
There two men entered the store. One held an employee at knifepoint while they took cash and cigarettes from the store, the report said. Full descriptions of the robbers were not available.
The second robbery was reported just after 9 p.m. Sunday at the Dollar General at 2740 Maplecrest Road.
There, police said two men entered the store armed with a handgun. The robbers demanded money and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash, the report said.
Complete descriptions of the robbers were not available.
A DeKalb County man was arrested Monday on accusations he made a child touch his private parts, according to sheriff’s deputies.
Richard Warble, 69, of St. Joe, faces preliminary felony charges of child molesting and being a repeat sexual offender. He was being held in lieu of $20,000 bail at the DeKalb County jail.
Police say Warble took a child’s hand and made the child touch his private parts between 2003 and 2006 while at his home.
The child’s age was not disclosed.
Police say Warble admitted to the accusations during an interview in November.
Warble was convicted in 1997 of three counts of child molesting and spent time in prison for the offenses.
