The Star - August 27, 2013

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TUESDAY August 27, 2013

Can’t Live Without It Page A6 Mill kept open due to public demand

Colts Need Luck Page B1 Indianapolis QB must stay healthy

Weather Cloudy with a chance of rain today. Hot, high of 91. Low tonight 73. Cloudy again Wednesday. Page A6

GOOD MORNING Contestants can enter to win pianos AUBURN —The Auburn Arts Commission is sponsoring a contest to win pianos that remain in playable condition after this summer’s Pianos on the Square interactive exhibit. Contest rules are: 1. The entrant will write an essay explaining in 25 to 50 words why he or she wants the piano. 2. Entries must have contact information of name, address and phone number. 3. An entrant who wins a piano must move the piano. 4. The entrant may specify a choice or preference for a particular piano, but that choice is not guaranteed. 5. The piano steering committee makes the decision on the recipients, and the committee’s decision is final. 6. Preference for awarding a piano will be music students of any age, nonprofit organizations and the public, in that order. 7. Entries must be postmarked by Sept. 2 and sent to the Auburn Arts Commission, P.O. Box 172, Auburn IN 46706.

Private group to help Indy police with alcohol issues INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Rising concern over recent alcohol-related arrests of Indianapolis-area police officers is sparking a push to create a private foundation to help them address their issues outside the chain of command. Indianapolis Public Safety Director Troy Riggs is working with city leaders to establish the foundation, which would offer training and counseling services for public safety employees. More than a dozen local officers have been arrested on alcohol charges in the past three years, including an Indiana State Police trooper whose blood-alcohol content was three times the legal limit when police say he waved a weapon inside a restaurant earlier this month.

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Four jailed in Waterloo meth raid WATERLOO — The Waterloo Marshal’s Department arrested four people Sunday night while investigating a report of someone manufacturing methamphetamine at a residence, said town Marshal Jay Oberholtzer. Officers went to the 300 block of South Oak Street at 10:30 p.m. Sunday. After an initial interview of the occupants, officers obtained a search warrant from the DeKalb Circuit Court to search the residence. Inside the residence, officers reported finding an active “pot” cooking methamphetamine and 12 inactive one-pot reaction vessels, nine hydrochloric acid generators, numerous items of paraphernalia, marijuana and synthetic marijuana.

AUBURN POLICE make drug arrests after traffic stop. SEE PAGE A2.

The Indiana State Police Clandestine Lab Team came to the scene, and the Waterloo Fire Barrington Department was present while an active methamphetamine vessel was disabled. Three children ages 3, 5 and 8, who were sleeping in the residence, were removed from the residence, Oberholtzer said. People arrested at the home are:

Dietrich

Haywood

Strohminger

• Brandon D. Barrington, 37, of the 100 block of Railroad Street, Waterloo, on a charge of dealing in methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a park, a Class A felony. SEE METH, PAGE A6

Battle to find proof U.N. experts collect samples, testimony of chemical attack OCTAVIA LEHMAN

Sid and Belva Meyer of Auburn depart from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum today with the 38th annual ACD Hoosier Tour. The 2 1/2-day road trip promotes the Auburn

Cord Duesenberg Festival to surrounding communities. Its 50 drivers are heading to Kalamazoo, Mich.

Couple embark on Hoosier Tour BY OCTAVIA LEHMAN olehman@kpcnews.net

AUBURN — Sid and Belva Meyer’s Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival week will be busy. Today, the two set out with the festival’s 38th annual Hoosier Tour, a 2 1/2-day road trip of 50 classic cars heading to Kalamazoo, Mich. Once the tour arrives back in Auburn Thursday, it’s the official start of the ACD Festival. Friday, Belva will head to the ACD Ladies Tea, while Sid plans to attend the ACD Swap Meet. Then there’s Saturday — when the two will ride in their 1932 Auburn automobile in the Parade of Classics in the afternoon, then head to a collector car auction in the evening. Recounting all the events, the Meyers will eventually breathe. “At the end of the week, we’ll collapse,” Sid said. “We are very fortunate to be able to go home and sleep in our own beds.” Belva has been coming to the

Tour takes international guests AUBURN — The Hoosier Tour has an international flavor this week with two passengers from Down Under. Daniel Nathan of New Zealand and Terry Mansbridge of Australia are making the trip with their fellow Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club members. Nathan owns a pair of Auburn automobiles from the 1931 and 1936 model years. Mansbridge has 1933 and 1936 versions of the Auburn make. Mansbridge said his 12-cylinder 1933 Auburn belonged to the Auburn dealer in Melbourne, Australia.

Nathan is making his third visit to the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival. Mansbridge has arrived for the second time. “It’s wonderful — amazing cars, and the people are very nice and friendly. It’s well worth coming for,” Nathan said. “It’s just a great event, isn’t it?” Mansbridge added. “If you’ve got an Auburn, Cord or Duesenberg, you’ve got to come here.” The men said they are expecting four more Australians to arrive in time for the festival’s main events this weekend.

ACD Festival since high school. Her husband started coming in high school, too, but only “as long as there wasn’t work to do on the farm,” he said.

The two were raised in Butler and moved to Auburn in 1969. While Sid’s first affinity for cars was more for muscle, he said, SEE TOUR, PAGE A6

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — U.N. experts collected samples and testimony from Syrian doctors and victims of an alleged chemical weapons attack Monday following a treacherous journey through government and rebel-held territory, where their convoy was hit by snipers. As U.S. officials said there was very little doubt that Syria used chemical weapons and Western powers stepped up calls for swift military action, President Bashar Assad’s government vowed to defend itself against any international attack, warning that such an intervention would ignite turmoil across the region. It also would bring the U.S. closer to a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people since Assad cracked down on Arab Spring-inspired protesters in March 2011. Syria’s civil war has been increasingly defined by sectarian killings between the Sunni-led rebellion and Assad’s regime, dominated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. It would essentially pit the U.S. and regional allies Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar in a proxy war against Iran, which is providing weapons to the Syrian government’s counterinsurgency, along with Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese group that also has aided Assad’s forces militarily. Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mikdad told The Associated Press in an interview in Damascus that SEE SYRIA, PAGE A6

Man gets 8 years for Auburn armed robbery BY KATHRYN BASSETT kbassett@kpcmedia.com

AUBURN — A South Carolina man was sentenced Monday to eight years behind bars for the armed robbery of an Auburn convenience store in December. Taylor D.E. McBee, 23, of Greenville, S.C., pleaded guilty to robbery while armed with a deadly weapon, a Class B felony, as part of a plea agreement filed in DeKalb Superior Court I. The plea agreement capped any executed portion of McBee’s sentence at eight years and dismissed a probation violation allegation in another case. In sentencing McBee, Judge

Kevin Wallace said eight years of incarceration is appropriate in the case. At an earlier hearing, McBee admitted he went into the Auburn Pride convenience store, 1902 S. Wayne St., on Dec. 22, 2012, armed with a nickel-plated revolver and demanded cigarettes and money. McBee admitted he put the attendant in fear by showing him the gun when he demanded the items. “It was the worst mistake I’ve made,” McBee said Monday. “I wasn’t thinking.” McBee said he had been staying at the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission around the time of the

offense and that South Carolina was his home. McBee said he is not a violent person and his behavior at the time of the incident was out of character. McBee acknowledged he has prior criminal convictions involving bad checks. He said he was living on and off of the streets during those times and was bouncing checks to get by. “In the time I’ve worked with Taylor, he has been genuinely remorseful, not that he got caught, but that he did this,” said McBee’s attorney, Thompson Smith. Smith said it is a “mystery” why McBee jumped from petty

crimes to an offense of armed robbery. DeKalb County Prosecutor ClaraMary Winebrenner acknowledged McBee is remorseful but said an eight-year sentence is reasonable. “He has certainly earned all eight,” she added. Earlier this month, Wallace sentenced a second suspect in the incident, Derek W. Rowe of rural Auburn, to eight years in prison for his role in the robbery. Rowe pleaded guilty to aiding in robbery, a Class B felony, as part of a plea agreement. He was accused of acting as a lookout while McBee robbed the store.


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