A Chesterton man charged with two felonies for dealing drugs could avoid any prison time because of a plea agreement to enter the Porter County Drug Court therapeutic program.
David Allen Vinson, 24, of the 300 block of Jefferson Avenue, was sentenced Tuesday to the Drug Court for his Dec. 23 plea to Level 5 felony dealing in a schedule I, II and II controlled substance and Level 6 felony dealing in a schedule I, II and II controlled substance.
If he does not successfully complete the program, he could serve up to six years on the Level 5 felony alone.
The pleas cover a Dec. 17, 2014, sale of the five under-the-tongue strips of the opioid Suboxone for $75 and a Dec. 23, 2014 sale of two Suboxone strips for $20, court documents said.
Both sales were to Porter County Drug Task Force informants and took place in the parking lot of a Chesterton restaurant in the 3400 block of Indian Boundary Road, court documents said.
Failing the Porter County Drug Court therapeutic program has meant charges will not be erased for a Valparaiso man who will also serve some home detention.
Jeremy Ray Alspach, 23, of the 200 block of Logan Street, was sentenced on Tuesday to a year and 13 days home detention and 12 years and 227 days of formal probation.
After being sentenced to Drug Court in October 2013, Alspach was terminated from the drug recovery program May 9 because of multiple violations, including drinking, having an undisclosed Skype account to communicate with an unauthorized woman, socializing with a known felon, absconding from in-patient treatment and not showing for meetings while having someone sign him in, court documents said.
He originally pleaded guilty to two counts of Class B felony dealing in a schedule I, II or II substance for selling morphine in February 2013 and Hydrocodone April 2013, as well as Class A misdemeanor battery, Class B misdemeanor false informing and Class B misdemeanor for an April 2013 fight in the first block of east U.S. 6 where he punched a man and claimed the man hit him in the head with a hammer, which Alspach later recounted.
A Valparaiso woman who was awakened by a noise found a man in the doorway to her bedroom and told police he wouldn’t leave when she asked him to do so.
Valparaiso police were called around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday to the 600 block of Chicago Street and found the man, Mark Myers, 49, of Valparaiso, sitting in a recliner in the living room.
The woman told police the two had been in a relationship but it ended a few years ago when Myers was arrested for domestic battery and was no longer allowed to return to the residence. She did not know how he got inside. According to online court records, Myers plead guilty to domestic battery with a prior conviction, a Class D felony, in October 2012.
Myers told police he had a key but the key he had didn’t work in the lock and police said the door handle was broken.
Myers reportedly told police he lived at the residence, and later police said he refused police commands to put his hands behind his back. Police later had to force Myers to the floor to handcuff him.
Myers is charged with a felony count of residential entry, and misdemeanor charges of resisting law enforcement and criminal mischief. Police transported him to Porter County Jail.
