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The 94th annual West Side Nut Club Fall Festival begins Monday, October 05, 2015. The weeklong event has been an Evansville tradition since 1921. The festival occupies over four city blocks and will feature food, rides, music, pageants, contests and parades. Once again the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office will maintain a tent at the intersection […]

The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office visited the University of Southern Indiana Wellness Fair and the Junior Achievement Public Education Foundation Career Exploration Day on Wednesday, September, 2015. The USI Health and Wellness Fair featured dozens of displays and presentations from area businesses and non-profit groups. Sheriff Dave Wedding spoke with students, faculty and employees of […]

DATE: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 SUBJECT: Wanted Burglar Apprehended by Sheriff’s Office K9 RELEASE NUMBER: 2015-NR-062 CONTACT: Lt. Noah Robinson AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force have arrested a residential burglar being sought by the Evansville Police Department. On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at […]

The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office graduated nine (9) new confinement officers from the Jail Officers Course this past Friday, September 25th, 2015. Officers from Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer and Perry counties completed the Basic Jail Officer’s Course. In 2006, the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board approved the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office as a regional training site […]

DATE: Sunday, September 27, 2015 SUBJECT: Sheriff’s Office Investigating Early Morning Residential Arson RELEASE NUMBER: 2015-NR-061 CONTACT: Lt. Noah Robinson AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding On Sunday, September 27, 2015 at approximately 5:14am the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, McCutchanville Fire Department and German Township Fire Department responded to a report of a residential structure fire at […]

The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Traffic Safety Partnership conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Friday, September 25, 2015 at NW 2nd Street and S. 3rd Avenue. The checkpoint ran from 11:30pm to 2:30am. A total of 77 vehicles were diverted from NW 2nd Street into the checkpoint. At approxiamatly 1:30am a vehicle operated by Mr. Derrik Hardin entered […]

The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office would like to remind motorists to exercise caution on our county roadways as fall harvest season gets underway.  “Our local farmers will be moving farm implements and other agricultural machinery along county roadways in order to access farm fields,” said Sheriff Dave Wedding. “Motorists should be prepared for machinery to […]

The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Traffic Safety Partnership will conduct a sobriety checkpoint this Friday evening, September 25, 2015 from 11:30 pm until 3:00 am. Law enforcement officers from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office and the Evansville Police Department will join together to conduct this checkpoint. The location for Friday’s checkpoint was chosen based on local traffic […]

DATE: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 SUBJECT: Fatal Crash on Old Henderson Road RELEASE NUMBER: 2015-NR-060 CONTACT: Lt. David Townsend AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 1:04pm the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single vehicle crash in the 15,000 block of Old Henderson Road. A red passenger car had been […]

The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office arrested two DUI motorists in two separate incidents over the weekend. Both of the motorists were intoxicated while transporting children. On Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 7:10pm a sheriff’s deputy detailed to a federally funded traffic safety grant stopped a white sport utility vehicle on E. Riverside Dr. near Evans […]