Two people who were facing criminal charges in local courts have pled guilty and been sentenced on charges including fleeing law enforcement and theft.
The Daily Journal has previously reported on these cases and is sharing this update to give resolution to our earlier reporting on crime in the community.
Fleeing law enforcement
An Indianapolis man was sentenced for resisting law enforcement.
Gavin L. Lucas, 31, pled guilty before Judge Douglas Cummins in Johnson County Superior Court 3 on Jan. 26 to resisting law enforcement as a level 6 felony. Lesser misdemeanor charges of resisting law enforcement, possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance were dismissed as part of the plea agreement, online court records show.
Lucas was sentenced the same day to a total of 544 days, with 168 days to be executed plus 376 days on home detention. He received credit for 84 actual days served, according to the sentencing order.
However, Lucas has already violated the terms of his sentence and the case is again under review.
In the incident leading up to Lucas’ arrest, Greenwood police were on patrol in June 2022 near the intersection of County Line Road and Meridian Street when they observed a black sedan turn onto County Line Road, a police report says.
As police attempted the traffic stop, the sedan accelerated at a high rate of speed onto Summer Walk East Drive and drove off the roadway. Police then ordered the vehicle’s three occupants to exit, and one of the occupants — later identified as Lucas — exited the driver’s side and ran, according to the report.
Lucas then fell into a nearby pond, and when he came out of the pond, police ordered him to put his hands behind his back. He refused, then tossed a cell phone he had in his hands into the pond, the report says.
Around the same time, another officer ordered a person who was sitting in the backseat — later identified as Bradley D. Cox of Indianapolis — out of the car and placed him under arrest, the report says.
Catalytic converters and tools commonly used to cut them off vehicles were located in the car and both Lucas and Cox were originally arrested for theft charges. However, neither had a theft charge formally filed against them. The full case against Cox was dismissed following the initial hearing, online court records show.
Catalytic converter theft
A Franklin man was sentenced for theft of catalytic converters.
Sean P. Siegman, Jr., 44, pled guilty before Judge Cummins on Jan. 26 to theft where the value of the property is between $750,000 and $50,000, online court records show.
Siegman was sentenced to 730 days, with 106 executed and credit for 53 days served. He will serve 180 days on home detention and 630 days on probation, the sentencing order says.
In the incident leading to Siegman’s arrest, officers responded in November 2021 to a report of a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot in the 900 block of County Line Road. Police did not locate the suspicious vehicle at that location, but found it later in the 900 block of Emerson Parkway, according to a Greenwood Police Department report.
Officers approached the vehicle and saw a man, later identified as Joshua S. Wickline, 42, of Greenwood, standing behind it. He fled on foot, the report says.
Police saw another man, later identified as Siegman, of Franklin, underneath an SUV in the parking lot next to a cut catalytic converter, saw blade and flashlight. He told police he was finishing what Wickline had started, according to the report.
Police found Wickline laying behind some nearby bushes. He told police he was not involved in cutting off the converter from the SUV, but later told police the three had driven from Southport, where they cut off another catalytic converter, to Greenwood to find more. Two stolen catalytic converters were recovered, according to the report.
Wickline was previously sentenced to 546 days with a jail credit of 43 days, online court records show.
