Two Local Officers Among Those Recognized For OWI Patrols
News Release
INDIANAPOLIS — Two police officers from Kosciusko County – Logan Pitts and Lucas Vander Hart – recently received the Traffic Safety All-Star Award from The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute for their efforts in impaired driving enforcement.
The ICJI presented 62 police officers with this award. The all-stars, who were nominated by their departments, were recognized during a ceremony held Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Victory Field in Indianapolis.
Logan Pitts is employed with Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department and Lucas Vander Hart is employed with Warsaw Police Department.
To qualify, an officer must have made at least 20 operating while intoxicated arrests and participated in one of the state’s enhanced enforcement campaigns in the previous year.
In total, the officers who were recognized made nearly 3,000 operating while intoxicated arrests last year. One in every four fatal crashes in Indiana involves a drunk driver.
During the ceremony, the top performers, or MVPs, were recognized with a special Traffic Safety All-Star Award, Golden Glove distinction. In addition, ICJI also presented a separate Leadership Award for outstanding contributions, outside of traffic enforcement, in the prevention of impaired driving.
The following list is of the 2022 Traffic Safety All-Star award recipients.
Allen
- Daniel Chiu — Fort Wayne Police Department; 45 OWI arrests
- Joseph Lyon — Fort Wayne Police Department; 58 OWI arrests
- Nathan Mueller* — Fort Wayne Police Department; 79 OWI arrests
- Zachary Chapman — Fort Wayne Police Department; 45 OWI arrests
Blackford
- Brandon Capper — Blackford County Sheriff’s Office; 21 OWI arrests
Boone
- Austin McCloskey* — Lebanon Police Department; 56 OWI arrests
Clark
- Brad Jones* — Clark County Sheriff’s Office; 45 OWI arrests
- Justin Mears — Indiana State Police (Sellersburg District); 114 OWI arrests
Dearborn
- Austin Boggs — Greendale Police Department; 27 OWI arrests
- Luke Gentry — Lawrenceburg Police Department; 21 OWI arrests
DeKalb
- Kyle Woods — Auburn Police Department; 36 OWI arrests
Elkhart
- James Bradberry Jr. — Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office; 50 OWI arrests
- Jamie Sterling — Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office; 42 OWI arrests
Gibson
- Uriah Smith — Gibson County Sheriff’s Office; 23 OWI arrests
Hendricks
- Anthony Goodpaster — Hendricks County Sheriff’s Department; 23 OWI arrests
- Cody Rusher — Hendricks County Sheriff’s Department; 28 OWI arrests
- Damen Owens — Hendricks County Sheriff’s Department; 30 OWI arrests
- Jeffrey Slayback — Danville Metro Police Department; 21 OWI arrests
- Jonathon Groth — Hendricks County Sheriff’s Department; 29 OWI arrests
- Michael Murray — Plainfield Police Department; 23 OWI arrests
- Travis Wilson — Danville Metro Police Department; 25 OWI arrests
- William Richards — Avon Police Department; 27 OWI arrests
Howard
- Mason Fisher — Kokomo Police Department; 30 OWI arrests
Huntington
- Cody Jones — Huntington County Sheriff’s Department; 21 OWI arrests
- Dave McVoy — Huntington County Sheriff’s Department; 29 OWI arrests
- Jordan Corral — Huntington Police Department; 30 OWI arrests
Jackson
- Benjamin Miller — Seymour Police Department; 20 OWI arrests
- Blake McCrary — Seymour Police Department; 23 OWI arrests
Johnson
- Andrew Eggebrecht — Johnson County Sheriff’s Office; 34 OWI arrests
- Dillon Dallas — Johnson County Sheriff’s Office; 34 OWI arrests
Kosciusko
- Logan Pitts — Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department; 28 OWI arrests
- Lucas Vander Hart — Warsaw Police Department; 23 OWI arrests
Lake
- Aaron Crawford — Lowell Police Department; 49 OWI arrests
- Coty Sparks — Hammond Police Department; 21 OWI arrests
- Israel Rosillo — Indiana State Police (Lowell District); 112 OWI arrests
- Matthew Siegfried — Hammond Police Department; 56 OWI arrests
- Paul Sines — Griffith Police Department; 22 OWI arrests
- Riley Arvanitis* — Schererville Police Dept; 83 OWI arrests
LaPorte
- Alex Clemons — LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office; 21 OWI arrests
- Daniel Revoir — Michigan City Police Department; 48 OWI arrests
Madison
- Tyler Irwin — Elwood Police Department; 22 OWI arrests
Marion
- Abdessamed Boudaia — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 36 OWI arrests
- Adam Jones* — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 164 OWI arrests
- Craig Wildauer* — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 276 OWI arrests
- Curtis Johnson* — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 150 OWI arrests
- Duran Brown — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 45 OWI arrests
- Erica Eder — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 39 OWI arrests
- Jaime Thorn — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 65 OWI arrests
- Jerry Leary — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 63 OWI arrests
- Logan Atzhorn — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 49 OWI arrests
- Ryan Bowersox — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 31 OWI arrests
- Zachary Foster — Indianapolis Metro Police Department; 42 OWI arrests
Marshall
- Benjamin Beers — Indiana State Police (Bremen District); 124 OWI arrests
- Jerrid Arnold — Plymouth Police Department; 32 OWI arrests
Miami
- Jeremy Brindle — Peru Police Department; 23 OWI arrests
- Keith Smith — Peru Police Department; 25 OWI arrests
- Courtney Alwine** — Miami County Prosecutor’s Office; OWI arrests N/A
Monroe
- Kyle Moulden — Monroe County Sheriff’s Office; 39 OWI arrests
Porter
- Andrew Smith — Portage Police Department; 20 OWI arrests
- Austin A. Haynes — Burns Harbor Police Department; 36 OWI arrests
Vigo
- Grant Daley — West Terre Haute Police; 36 OWI arrests
Wayne
- Brett Haskett — Richmond Police Department; 36 OWI arrests
- Seth Biava — Wayne County Sheriff’s Department; 27 OWI arrests
*Indicates a Traffic Safety All-Star Golden Glove Award recipient.
**Indicates the Traffic Safety All-Star Leadership Award recipient.