GARY â The Lake County sheriff is once again putting a GPS monitoring company on blast for what he says was a delay in notifying police of a detainee s escape.
The detainee, Aaron Jacob Collins, 26, was under home confinement for a drug possession charge and allowed the battery on his ankle bracelet to die, Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. said. ICU Monitoring notified the Lake County Sheriffâs Department on Sunday that Collins was at large.
That notification, Martinez said, came five days after Collins failed to respond to the ICU s inquiries about his whereabouts.Â
Collins is described as a white male who weighs 151 pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes. ICU Monitoring told the sheriff s department that it was believed Collins was traveling to Indianapolis, his hometown.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.