Woman asks cop for permission to smoke, lights up marijuana
AP - Police say a Muncie woman was arrested after asking a state trooper whether she could smoke then trying to light up a marijuana joint.
Honesty Knight, 32, was a passenger in a vehicle Trooper Eric Perkins pulled over for a traffic violation Dec. 5. While the trooper was talking to the driver, Knight obtained the trooper's permission to smoke.
Police said Perkins asked to see the cigarette, which contained marijuana, not tobacco.
Knight faces a preliminary charge of possession of paraphernalia. She was released from jail on bond, but couldn't be reached for comment.
'White supremacist' leaves 15 bite marks on child's arms, legs
AP - A self-proclaimed white supremacist who allegedly made threatening "black magic" phone calls to a high school this summer now faces charges that he repeatedly bit a 9-year-old boy.
Dmitriy V. Sklyarov, 20, was charged Friday with neglect of a dependent resulting in bodily injury and battery resulting in bodily injury for allegedly biting the boy, who had been left in his care. Both charges are felonies, and Sklyarov was being held in the Delaware County Jail on a $15,000 bond.
Authorities say Sklyarov left at least 13 bite marks, still visible the next day, on the child's arms and at least one bite mark on each leg.
The Star Press of Muncie reported that the alleged victim told investigators that Sklyarov had bit him "for fun." The boy's mother suggested Sklyarov was "just playing" with her son, but had "gotten too rough."
Muncie City Court records show that Sklyarov faces two pending misdemeanor charges filed over the summer.
On Aug. 8, the Muncie man was charged with harassment after authorities said he left two threatening phone messages at Wes-Del High School in July. In one message, he allegedly said he had placed a "spell" on teachers by making dolls in their image and putting his own blood on the dolls, saying the teachers would "get sick and die" as a result. In another message, the caller said he was a "hard-core black magician," adding "Hail, Satan!"
Estrada in town to work three night shifts for Muncie PD
AP - Erik Estrada has returned to Muncie to take part in overnight police patrols in the city where he starred in the short-lived reality series "Armed & Famous."The former star "CHiPs" is a reserve officer on the Muncie Police Department.
The 60-year-old actor plans to work the midnight shift for three nights this week.
Estrada filmed "Armed & Famous" for CBS in Muncie in the winter of 2006-07. He and several other celebrities patrolled the city as reserve officers.
Man defends himself, friend with samurai sword
A Muncie man went to jail and suffered injuries from a samurai sword in late November after a failed attempt to break into another person's house to get his wife back, according to The Muncie Star Press.
According to a Muncie Police Department report, Joseph M. Hartman, 28, and friends Bobby Joe Overbay, 18, and Matthew Michail Wilson, 23, broke into Jessy Mann's house Nov. 22 to "take Hartman's estranged wife by force."
Mann told The Star Press the three men entered his house and refused to leave after he asked them. They began throwing things at him including an alarm clock and furniture. Mann grabbed a collectible sword and swung at the three, hitting Hartman in the head and chest and Overbay in the forehead."It was crazy," Mann told The Star Press. "It was like something you would see in a movie."
Before leaving the scene, the three men got into a Jeep Cherokee and crashed into the house three times.
Police arrested the suspects and took them to Ball Memorial Hospital before taking them to the Delaware County Jail.
Mann told the Star Press he never intended the sword to be a weapon and was glad no one was hurt.
"I just like swords," he said. "I just have them around for novelty. I never expected I'd have to do some crazy stuff like that."
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