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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Ind. Courts - More on: Unsolved Tippecanoe County Courthouse bombing nearly ten years old
Updating this May 10th ILB entry, Sophia Voravong of the Lafayette Journal Courier reports today in a story that begins:
For nearly 10 years, authorities have been storing the stolen Ford F-250 pickup truck that drove into the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, bursting into flames and causing extensive first-floor damage.The hope is that the person or people responsible for the attempted bombing on Aug. 2, 1998, will be caught and that the charred vehicle would be compelling evidence.
"I feel strongly that there is someone in our community who has that little piece of information," Tippecanoe County Sheriff Tracy Brown said. "We want a citizen to come forward and do the right thing. We're hoping that this will put us in a position so that we can close the case."
Brown and David Capp, interim U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, announced Wednesday that reward money for information that would lead to an arrest and conviction in the case has been raised from $10,000 to $50,000.
The announcement comes just two months before a 10-year federal statute of limitations for arson and related crimes runs out.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 29, 2008 10:37 AM
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