The body of Thomas Haskins was a day away from being cremated – and his closest kin didn’t even know he was dead.A woman filed 17 different police reports in the past year that detailed theft, vandalism and repeated harassment against her, her family and her friends by her ex-boyfriend James E. Lawson, according to court documents charging Lawson with stalking.
The woman told police in September that Lawson fired a rifle into a home where she was, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Police said Lawson went to a home where his ex-girlfriend was in May and demanded to talk to her. When another man went to the door to see what Lawson wanted, Lawson is accused of pointing a loaded shotgun at the man, court papers said.
Police arrested Lawson, 21, of the 6100 block of Blue Spruce Court, on Tuesday and he is charged with criminal recklessness, pointing a firearm and two counts of stalking.
He was being held at the Allen County Lockup in lieu of $35,000 bail.
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