Lindsay Levenick

PORT ST. LUCIE — The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 24-year-old woman on drug charges Wednesday as sheriff’s officials helped the FBI execute a federal search warrant, according to an affidavit released Thursday.

Lindsay Levenick was arrested by sheriff’s officials in the 1500 block of Southeast Blockton Avenue in Port St. Lucie.

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Detectives from the Martin County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division are continuing their investigation into a shooting from Wednesday night in the Banner Lake area of Hobe Sound.

The victim, identifed as 19-year-old David Harris, was shot in the back and transported to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach with life-threatening injuries. The suspects are identified as Elliot C. Ingvalson, 22, of Port St. Lucie and 17-year-old Glen Francis Theobald, sheriff’s spokeswoman Rhonda Irons said in a news release.

According to the release, Ingvalson and Theobald told detectives that they traveled to the Banner Lake area to meet with Harris and conduct a marijuana sale. They stated that Harris tried to rob them of the marijuana, shot at them first, and that Ingvalson, out of fear for his safety, fired back. They also said that another man was present during the altercation.

But detectives could not locate any evidence to support their claim of multiple shots being fired or the the presence of any other individuals, the release stated.

Ingvalson remains in custody at the Martin County Jail with a bond amount of $35,000. He is charged with possession of cannabis with intent to distribute, carrying a concealed firearm and aggravated battery with a firearm.

Theobald was processed at the Martin County Jail and then transferred to the custody of the Deparment of Juvenile Justice. He is charged with possession of cannaibis with intent to distribute and aggravated battery with a firearm.

Two men are in custody after a shooting that left one person in critical condition this evening, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said.

The shooting occurred shortly before 6 p.m. in the Banner Lake area of Hobe Sound, sheriff’s spokeswoman Rhonda Irons said in a news release. Deputies responded to the area adjacent to the park on Lantana Avenue and found a 19-year-old man with a single gunshot wound to the back. Martin County Fire Rescue transported the shooting victim to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach with life threatening injuries.

Witnesses reported that an altercation occurred between the victim and two other men. The two suspects fled the scene in an unknown direction of travel, but a vehicle matching the description provided by witnesses was located and stopped moments later on northbound Interstate 95.

The suspects were taken into custody without incident and are currently being interviewed by detectives. The shooting is believed to be narcotics-related and charges are pending, Irons said.

By Elliott Jones

Police in Indiana have arrested a 52-year-old man who fled there in a stolen car taken from the scene of Saturday’s killing of a Sebastian resident, James Malone, behind his business, Jim’s Automotive.

On Sunday, at 11 p.m., police in Richmond, Ind., located Rondell Reed who attempted to flee and crashed the stolen Corvette that rolled over, pinning him inside, Indian River County sheriff’s officials said Monday.

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Donna Townsend

PORT ST. LUCIE — A mother faces a felony charge after she was accused of getting a large kitchen knife and telling her juvenile son “she might as well ‘kill him’ ” after his objections to sit for a haircut, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday.

Donna M. Townsend, 35, was arrested Wednesday on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon domestic related charge following the incidents at her home in the 1400 block of Southwest Santiago Avenue in Port St. Lucie.

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Tammy Ann Roseman

Things got out of hand after Tammy Ann Roseman is said to have begun unbuttoning her “hot pink” pants.

A school bus driver for Indian River County schools spotted the woman identified as Roseman, 39, in the “hot pink” pants Tuesday afternoon. He was driving south on North Willow Street approaching Vernon Street in Fellsmere, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.

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By Lamaur Stancil

VERO BEACH — Police said they charged four teenaged boys with lewd and lascivious battery on a 13-year-old girl and are looking for a 20-year-old suspect they said was also involved in the beachside crime, officials said.

The crime occurred March 27 at a city beach, police said. The girl was not injured in the sexual incident, which detectives described as consensual. However, state statutes classify sex with anyone between 12 and 16 years old as lewd and lascivious battery.

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By Elliott Jones

PALM CITY — Two unemployed men parked in a Ford Thunderbird late Tuesday night were looking for prey to rob at gunpoint, according to sheriff’s reports.

Sameul Stephens

They pulled out along South Murphy Road when a lone state corrections officer passed by on his motorcycle, heading home from Port St. Lucie at 11:21 p.m. Tuesday.

At first, the uniformed officer thought he just heard 10 pops that sounded like a vehicle backfiring, but soon realized the pops were gunfire and the sparks and dirt kicking up around him were from bullets.

He sped up and eluded the car — and injury — and called 911, leading to a high-speed law enforcement chase that ended with the men crashing into a ditch east of High Meadows Avenue and fleeing into a woods.

Pedro Tingling

Deputies caught Pedro Tingling, 21, of West Palm Beach, and Samuel Stephens, 23, of Lantana, after a motorist reported seeing them at 1:46 a.m. Wednesday run across Interstate 95.

During interviews, investigators quoted Tingling as saying, “officer you know the only reason ya’ll caught me was because I saw the dog van, cause (otherwise) I would have run all the way back to Palm Beach.”

Stephens is accused of pulling the trigger on a 9 mm handgun found in the trunk of the red Thunderbird that Tingling acknowledged they were in. Deputies also found a .38-caliber pistol.

Initially Tingling told investigators he spend way from a sheriff’s deputy because he was scared.
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Angela C. Ferranti

A 25-year-old woman found in her bra and panties after a traffic crash told an officer she stripped off her clothes to try to “conceal her scent” from a police dog.

But Angela C. Ferranti’s disrobing plan last week apparently didn’t work as Kilo, a police dog, tracked into a wooded area in central Port St. Lucie where she was found, according to a recently released report.

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Kimberly Ann Houle

PORT ST. LUCIE — A 45-year-old woman accused of confronting her husband with a serrated knife after an argument faces charges, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.

Kimberly Ann Houle, of the 6300 block of Northwest Topaz Court in Port St. Lucie, was arrested on charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and domestic battery following the 9 p.m. Monday incidents.

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