A California man is accused of offering to pay to spend the night with an 11-year-old girl in a Fort Wayne hotel. Travis Wiley, 36, of Vacaville, Calif., was preliminarily charged Thursday with three felonies:A Fort Wayne man told police he was under the influence of a hallucinogenic but legal drug when he crashed his car into a deck and hot tub outside a home on the city’s north end, according to a police report.
The crash was reported just after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of Brandywine Court, off East Dupont Road. An 18-year-old man was driving a Ford Taurus when he drove into a yard, tearing up the grass and then hitting the home’s outside deck, the report said.
When police arrived at the crash scene and questioned the man, he told them he had been smoking K2 earlier. K2 is an herbal compound, sold legally, that mimics marijuana and can cause users to hallucinate.
A witness told police the man appeared “dazed and unresponsive” when she tried to talk to him.
The man suffered minor injuries and was taken to Parkview Hospital, where staff said they had no test for the compound but had been advised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to document and report patients suspected to have used it, the report said.
The driver told police after smoking the compound he “was seeing everything all 3-D or cartoonish-like,” the report said.
No citations have been filed in connection to the wreck.
Driver in fatal crash ID’d, listed as fair
Allen County police Wednesday identified a man they say was driving the sport utility vehicle that struck a pickup truck head-on Tuesday, killing another man.
Robert Sollazzo, 54, of Churubusco was driving the SUV that crossed the centerline on U.S. 33, hitting the truck driven by Charles Leffers, 63, also of Churubusco. Leffers died at the scene.
The crash is under investigation by the Fort Wayne-Allen County Crash Team.
Sollazzo was taken to Parkview Hospital with critical injuries, police said. He was listed in fair condition Wednesday night.
Cocaine probe ends in Steuben arrest
An Angola man was arrested Wednesday on felony drug charges after a two-month investigation, according to Steuben County sheriff’s deputies.
Octavio Montoya, 32, is charged with two felony counts of dealing cocaine.
He was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail at the Steuben County Jail.
Montoya was arrested about 2 p.m. Wednesday in the 300 block of Eyster Drive, north of Angola near Lake James.
Indiana Multi-Agency Group Enforcement Drug Task Force members had been investigating Montoya for two months.
