Search underway for person fleeing near county prison, Westville IN
Other CrimesAuthorities are searching for a person who fled on foot near the perimeter of the LaPorte County prison. A drone and canine units are used to assist, and officers have established a perimeter. A white BMW is being investigated at a nearby rural intersection to determine involvement.
Audio|Source: LaPorte County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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46. 49's about to put his drone up.
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That'll be better than any sort of prison power.
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Central, kind of you can disregard.
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I was not aware that we had a drone to put up.
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Regani said they have a good perimeter set up, so he might not have left the field get.
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Tenforth. Tenforth.
00:11
That's from the poor counties at the west lanterns and I'm on eleven hundred west.
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I haven't seen anything yet.
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26 in here yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I put somebody east of the roundabout west of 421, like on the south side of Perry Meadow Park.
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46 I'm in that area.
00:28
I'm in that area.
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811, 41 and we're up to the prison.
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6.
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Checking a white BMW.
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It's sitting here at the northeast intersection of 6 and 2, Michigan, David Victor Lincoln, Paul, Edward, Robert.
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Making sure this isn't involved with the person we're looking for.
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Six County, that's coming back to a Randy light subject out of Miles, Michigan.
00:56
There's a pretty significant dish and tree line that runs south from 6 to the north side of the prison.
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My guess he's going to be east of that.
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I don't think he can cross that, no matter what kind of trucks he's in, that dish is pretty deep.
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26, this subject's on his way, I'm pending from here.
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I haven't stuck in a field here about three-quarters of miles south at Circle Drive.
01:19
Do not as the best of coming off 421 then, or what's our nearest point of contact second?
01:28
How close is he's at Taz go?
01:29
He's pretty far north of there.
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Just come to Circle Drive and then go south, just east of the prison.
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You guys on the perimeter, make sure you still hold it.
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Don't everybody go to 49 if this guy went out on foot.
01:38
We still need a good perimeter set up.
01:40
Just spoke with somebody at the prison.
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They're going to have people check their perimeter.
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Well, I don't know, we're putting a dog out, so make sure they've got somewhere that'd be.
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We've got two units on Circle Drive here.
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42 49 are yet?
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With 42 out on Circle.
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Okay. Fortyna, I thought you were right here.
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Where are you at?
01:56
Just east of prison.
01:57
That's one place we parked at?
01:58
South of there.
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My friend's line?
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811 on the Circle Drive.
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No lights.
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10.
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701 on 421 right now.
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6 to tell my 421 and 6.
02:07
Great.
02:08
All right, Ferland's 43.
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This car is pretty much directly south of...
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Right between Circle Drive and 600 south,
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maybe a half a mile west of 421, between 421 in the prison.
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There's a cornfield and bean field.
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The corn field on the southwest corner where the corn meets the beans, that's where this vehicle is.
02:28
We're going to approach with canine from the prison.
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and start walking east but we need to make sure our eastern and northern perimeter of this cornfield that the circle drive is sat up.
02:37
We got we're gonna have two on four twenty one we got a couple on circle drive here.
02:41
Do we have anyone south?
02:42
There's two cars south but I don't know who they are.
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I'm currently on 1100 West.
02:46
He has named me on 600 or remain here.
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On to 600.
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Jump on.
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Location mentioned:
US-421 & Circle Dr, Westville, IN 46391
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