The Lake County prosecutor s office dropped charges Thursday against James Hill and Pierre L. Catlett in the 1980 homicide of off-duty Hammond police Officer Lawrence J. "Larry" Pucalik.
According to charging documents, the driver of the car told the trooper during a conversation outside the vehicle the defendant was "wiggin out" and might have "smoked earlier."
CROWN POINT, Ind. An Illinois man has pleaded guilty to attacking and injuring two Indiana state troopers during a roadside scuffle along a northwest Indiana highway ramp.
An Illinois man has pleaded guilty to attacking and injuring two Indiana state troopers during a roadside scuffle along a northwest Indiana highway ramp.