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CPD: Man enters strangers home while on 'shrooms'

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A Westchester Township man who Chesterton Police said entered a stranger’s home on Dakota Street while under the influence of drugs was arrested Friday on charges of residential entry and resisting law enforcement.

According to police, at 2:07 a.m. officers were dispatched to the 2300 block of Dakota Street after a homeowner reported that a male subject wearing a black tee-shirt had just fled westbound on foot after entering an unsecured four-seasons room of the house and pounding on an interior door.

Officers began to walk the neighborhood and in the 2400 block observed a trouserless man in a black tee-shirt “sitting Indian style on the front step” of a house. That man refused to say whether he lived at the house, however, and told officers “to leave him alone,” police said.

Given the fact that the man “partially matched the description” of the suspect, “was not wearing any pants, was the only subject in the area with a black shirt, and refused to provide any information,” officers opted to put him in handcuffs, police said. The man struggled, however, and officers took him “to the ground in a controlled manner” and then, when he still refused to be cuffed, used “a baton to pry his arm out from under him,” police said.

A pair of jeans not belonging to the homeowner was subsequently found in his driveway next to a vehicle, police noted.

Although the man did identify himself as “Mitchell T. Howell, 20, of 1189N 250E, his “comments/statements” to officers “did not make sense,” prompting his transport to the Franciscan Alliance ER department on Indian Boundary Road, police said. There “he was unable to answer normal questions when asked by the ER physician,” at “three different times” saying 1996 when asked what year it was, police said.

Howell received treatment at the ER--after which “the mental status and demeanor of Mr. Howell was very different,” police said--and on his discharge was transported to Porter County Jail, police said.

Howell “admitted that he was under the influence of ‘shrooms’” at the time of the incident and “also advised that he wished to apologize to the homeowner for his trouble,” police added.

 
 
 
 
 

 

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