Indiana University Women’s Basketball takes down Lady Vols in Knoxville
Indiana University Women’s Basketball went into Thompson Bowling Arena Monday Night and came out with a 79-67 win over the Tennessee Lady Volunteers before a crowd of 7,768 fans. Chloe Moore-McNeil returned to her home state and scored a career high 15 points. Moore-McNeil is from Sharon Tennessee and her HS teammate Tess Darby scored 9 points for the Lady Vols. Moore-McNeil and Darby went 34-0 their senior season and won the Class A State Championship for Greenfield HS. Mackenize Holmes and Sara Scalia scored 16 points each. Grace Berger and Sydney Parrish scored 13 points each as the Hoosiers scored 21 fast break points and held the Lady Vols to 2 fast break points. Holmes and Berger pulled down 10 rebounds each as they both had a double-double.
Indiana shot 44 percent from the field, 8-29 from three-point range and 15-18 from the free throw line for 83 percent. The Hoosiers pulled down 35 rebounds, 21 assists, 9 steals, 6 blocks and 10 turnovers. Indiana led 40-29 at halftime and there were six lead changes in the game as the Hoosiers outscored the Lady Vols 39-38 in the second half. Indiana had 30 points in the paint and 15 points of the bench. The key for Indiana has been Rebounds, Defense, and getting the ball inside. Indiana has been able to all three things in the first three games of the season, and this will be the key as they navigate the non-conference slate before going into conference play.
Indiana will return to action Thursday when they host Bowling Green inside Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall at 7pm.
Lifetime suspension from hunting is first of its kind in Indiana
An Indiana Conservation Officer investigation has resulted in multiple charges, fines, and the first lifetime hunting suspension of its kind in state history, for a West Lafayette man. 25 year-old Hanson Pusey was sentenced Thursday in Warren County Court to a lifetime hunting suspension along with home detention, probation, and payment of replacement fees stemming from an investigation by DNR Law Enforcement involving the illegal hunting of wild turkeys in Indiana and six other states.
In spring 2020, conservation officers in District 3 received information that Pusey, whose hunting privileges had been suspended since March 2019, was still hunting and taking multiple turkeys illegally in Indiana and other states.
Using advanced surveillance techniques, investigators monitored Pusey, gathering evidence of poaching in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, as well as in Indiana, where they documented him taking four spring turkeys in Indiana in 2020, two after the season closed. Officers also documented Pusey helping family and friends poach turkeys. Search warrants were served on the man’s residence, and in cooperation with the other states’ fish and wildlife law enforcement agencies, filed charges in all them.
During the search of the residence, officers found that Pusey had kept the spent shotgun hulls from turkeys he had harvested, identifying the states and dates he took them. Officers documented 83 spent casings in the collection dating back to 2012, including 14 dated within three months of his first suspension of hunting privileges in 2019. Four were listed by Pusey as being taken from Indiana.
Punishments for various charges from the other states included $4,125 in fines and costs and an eight-year hunting license suspension in Pennsylvania, $324 in fines and costs and an indefinite suspension in Connecticut, $700 in fines and costs and license suspension during probation in Massachusetts, $2,335 in fines and costs in Georgia, $278 in fines and costs in North Carolina, and $525 in fines and costs in Tennessee. Pusey was charged again in February for hunting without permission and theft of a trail camera card in Warren County, despite the 2020 investigation and his convictions in the other states.
To report hunting or fishing violations, call Indiana Conservation Officer Central Dispatch at 812-837-9536 or 1-800-TIP-IDNR. For more information about Indiana hunting regulations see on.IN.gov/huntingguide
* Criminal Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law
State Police Corporal Recognized for 35 Years of Service
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The Superintendent of the Indiana State Police, Douglas G. Carter recently recognized Corporal David Poynter for achieving 35 years of service to the Department and to the citizens of Indiana. Poynter, who is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, is a 1984 graduate of George Washington High School, Indianapolis. On October 11, 1987, Poynter was hired in as an Indiana Capitol Police Officer. At that time, the Indiana Capitol Police was a division of the Indiana Department of Administration.
On September 25, 1992, Poynter graduated the Indiana Law Enforcement Basic Academy. He was assigned to the Governor’s Residence Security Detail for nearly 10 years, serving Governors Robert Orr, Evan Bayh and Frank O’Bannon. In 1997, Poynter transferred to Downtown Patrol and was appointed to the rank of Corporal.In 2002 as an act of the Indiana General Assembly, the Capitol Police was transitioned to become a division of the Indiana State Police, now known as the Capitol Police Section.
In 2004, Poynter was selected to serve as an EOR (Explosive Ordinance Recognition) Officer and the first Bomb Dog Handler for the Indiana State Police. Since then, he helped develop and expand the Explosive Detection Canine program now, six teams strong. Poynter is now assigned to Special Operations, Bomb Squad where he continues respond statewide, assisting with bomb threats and special events. Poynter has served the Indiana State Police in the following disciplines: Governor’s Residence Security Officer, Capitol Police Patrol Officer, Field Training Officer, Explosive Ordinance Recognition Officer, Bomb Squad and Explosive Detection Canine Handler. Poynter and his wife have two grown children and are residents of Marion County.
This Week in Hoosier History
1905 “The House of a Thousand Candles” by Indianapolis author Meredith Nicholson was published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. The book became a best seller and inspired a play and two motion pictures. Many think the book resulted from the author’s visit to a home on Lake Maxinkuckee in Culver, Indiana.
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