Archive - Oct 25, 2012 - News Article
There are few details from a tense situation this afternoon after a man doused himself in gasoline and threatened to set himself on fire.
It took place at a home on 11B Road outside of Plymouth.
For more than three hours, police and first responders monitored the situation and tried to engage the man.
Around 5 p.m., police were able to come up on and subdue the man.
The man was transported to the hospital. The extent of his injuries were unknown at this time.
Nobody else was at the home during the time of the situation.
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Cheryl Patrick/M.J. Bendt
Jasper County Judge John D. Potter issued a continuance on the request to have Starke County Commissioners, Starke County Treasurer Linda Belork and their counsel in Jasper Court Monday, Oct. 29 to explain to the judge why they believe they should not be held in contempt of court for closing the Starke County Treasurer's office last Monday until the matter of Belork's lack of bond is rectified.
PLYMOUTH — U.S. 30 East was closed for two hours this morning following a three-vehicle crash.
Corporal Ray West with the Plymouth Police Department, who responded to the scene, said that the driver of a pickup truck rear-ended a box truck, causing the box truck to hit a semi and flip over.
The driver of the pickup truck was airlifted to Memorial Hospital in South Bend with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the box truck was transported to St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Plymouth.
The Marshall County Sheriff's Department also responded to the accident.
