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TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014
Housekeeper allegedly stole TVs, wallets
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cording to the affidavit. Police noted the Circle K had the same brand as the erussell@registerpublications.com wine bottle found broken in A Riverside Inn, Green- the parking lot. dale, housekeeper is facing A manager at Riverside Inn multiple burglary and theft told police she checked the charges after she awoke two hotel, and found flat screen alleged victims in their room TVs had been stolen from early Wednesday morning, multiple rooms. Two Scepter June 25. TVs were missing from one According to an affidavit room; one had still been in of probable cause filed by the box. TVs also were missGreendale Police Sgt. Kevin ing from four other rooms, Turner, a father and son stay- and another room was ocing at the Riverside cupied by the YoInn reported they chums, according to were awakened the affidavit. when a woman was The manager told in their room. police the descripThe woman, later tion from the Yoidentified as Joyce chums matched a J. David, 33, of 113 housekeeper, Joyce Scudder Circle, Apt. David. 7, Lawrenceburg, A juvenile male told the son, Kenon Scudder Cirneth D. Yochum, cle told Turner a she was with house- Joyce J. David woman, “J” who lives keeping and was checking if in apartment 7, asked him to he needed towels. hold a flat screen TV until she Yochum thought that picked it up after work, and strange and went to the front gave him $6. desk at the motel, while at the Surveillance video form front desk he heard someone the Circle K showed a woman running down a hall upstairs, matching Joyce David’s deaccording to the court docu- scription at the store, where ments. she went to the back of the When he looked out the store, then to the front counfront door, he saw a woman ter and put a bag of chips on running with a television. the counter. The video also He yelled at the woman, and shows David clutching her saw her put the television in left leg “in a manner that one a green Honda. The Honda would do to keep an object took off, and the woman at- from falling out. She left the tempted to run away toward store with the chips without U.S. 50, but tripped and fell paying for them while the over a curb. She got back up, clerk was distracted, accordand took off toward Law- ing to Turner’s affidavit. renceburg. Turner, along with other Meanwhile, Yochum’s fa- Greendale police and Lawther came to the front desk, renceburg police, went to and said his and his son’s wal- David’s apartment at about lets were missing. The father 11:25 a.m. Wednesday mornand son described the sus- ing. pect as a short black woman In the affidavit, Turner rewho was heavy set, with short ported seeing a Riverside key hair. She was wearing a zip- marked housekeeping B next up hooded sweatshirt. Police to a cell phone on a lawn found a broken wine bottle chair on the porch. The key near where the Honda had had mud on it. David came to been parked, but the bottle the door, picked up the phone had not been opened, accord- and sat on the key. ing to the affidavit. Police asked David to go to A GPD officer went to the police station with them, Circle K and asked if there and she refused. She was a woman matching the de- read her Miranda rights, and scription of the woman from agreed to answer questions Riverside Inn had been there. at her apartment. She told The clerk told the officer police she did not take TVs there had been a short black from the Riverside Inn. female in the store wearing She invited officers to a hoodie at about 1:30 a.m., search her apartment, and asking to buy beer, according Turner wrote in the affidato the affidavit. vit there was a gray hooded “The clerk said, the female sweatshirt with mud on it in was acting strange and the a chair. Police arrested David clerk thought that the female at that point. may have stolen something In an interview with but could not be certain. The Greendale Police Sgt. Kendle clerk stated that the female Davis, David told him she left in a green-colored Honda “stole a bottle of wine from that was parked near the Sub- Circle K, … denied stealing way side of the store. She any TVs.” stated that she made sure to Acting on a tip, police note the vehicle due to the said two televisions were actions of the female,” acSee STOLE, Page 8 By Erika Schmidt Russell Editor
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Rising Sun resident and World War II veteran Bush White, right, shakes hands with former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kansas, in front of the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., while U.S. Rep. Luke Messer, RShelbyville, looks on Saturday, June 28. White was part of a Southeastern Indiana veterans bus trip to see the memorials. Dole’s mother has family ties to Rising Sun, and he also is a World War II veteran. For more photos, pick up The Rising Sun Recorder-News or The Dearborn County Register Thursday, July 3.
Main Street’s ‘admuraltion’ ready to hang
Schmeltzer & Probst honored for service By Chandra L. Mattingly Staff Reporter cmattingly@registerpublications.com
Sometimes folks who are being honored receive plaques to hang on their walls. Main Street Aurora took a different approach in honoring Dr. Matthew B. Probst and Karla Fry Schmeltzer for their contributions to MSA. The MSA members decided to hang Probst and Schmeltzer on a wall – or at least in a boarded-up window – in a mural featuring the two in period clothing. Painted by artist Cindy Crofoot, the mural was unveiled Sunday, June 29, at Aurora City Hall before a crowd of friends, relatives and MSA members. Schmeltzer, who served as MSA director for nine years, wiped away tears as she claimed she never cries at these events. Probst, who stepped down as MSA board president when she retired, stood between her and the mural, smiling. “We wanted to do something that would really honor them” as well as benefit Aurora, said new board president Jim Waldon before Aurora Mayor Donnie Hastings revealed the mural. So MSA members decided to have “marvelous artist” Crofoot paint a mural of the two. Then they also decided it should keep the theme of the existing Windows of Aurora, as a scene one might spot looking in or out of a window in early Aurora. Probst and Schmeltzer had not seen the mural and did not know before Sunday they were featured in period dress, said Waldon after the unveiling. MSA members thought of just installing the mural and taking the two to dinner, but instead decided to invite them and oth-
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Aurora Mayor Donnie Hastings unveils a mural featuring Karla Schmeltzer, former Main Street Aurora director, and Dr. Matt Probst, former Main Street Aurora board president, Sunday, June 29, in Aurora City Hall.
ers to this special event. your contributions,” Waldon told them. “We want you, Karla and Matt, to Probst continues to serve on the board know how much we appreciated all See MURAL, Page 8
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