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Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced that Dennis Lennartz, 55, Anderson , Indiana , was charged with defrauding the Indiana Medicaid program, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and The Indiana Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN  - The following restrictions and road closures are current or upcoming for the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Many restrictions listed below are dependent upon favorable weather conditions.

NEW RESTRICTIONS

I-70 westbound, from Post Road to S.R. 9, will have the median shoulder closed for cable barrier installation. Inclement weather could postpone work.
Date: January 5 - January 9, 2009
Time: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

PENDLETON, IN - The Indiana State Police would like to remind all motorists to do their part in making our highways safe during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.  In 2007 there were nine fatalities over the Christmas holiday period.  There were seven fatalities over the New Year period last year. 

The Christmas counting period this year is from 6 p.m. December 24 to 6 a.m. December 29. The New Years period is from 6 p.m. December 31 to 6 a.m. January 5, 2009. 

KOKOMO, IN -  Recently, a criminal investigation by Indiana State Police Detective Mike Tarrh resulted in the arrest of Daniel Edward Plotner, 33, Greentown, IN.  Howard County Sheriff’s Deputies served Plotner with a Howard Superior Court II arrest warrant charging him with four class D felony counts of theft; receiving stolen property. The warrant was served to Plotner at the Howard County Jail where he is currently being held with no bond. 

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