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DATE: Monday, February 18, 2019 SUBJECT: Sheriff Wedding Appointed to Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-NR-012 CONTACT: Major Noah Robinson AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding has been appointed to the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board (LETB) by Governor Eric Holcomb. Sheriff Wedding will serve as one of only three […]

DATE: Monday, February 18, 2019 SUBJECT: Wrong Way Driver on I-69 Arrested after Causing Two Crashes RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-NR-013 CONTACT: Major Noah Robinson AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding   A Newburgh man is in custody this morning after causing two crashes on I-69 while driving against traffic. On Monday, February 18, 2019 at approximately 5:15 AM the […]

DATE: Monday, February 4, 2019 SUBJECT: Indiana Sheriffs’ Association College Scholarship Program RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-NR-011 CONTACT: Lt. Mark Rasure AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding  Indiana Sheriffs’ Association President, Vanderburgh County Sheriff David L. Wedding, is pleased to announce that the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association will again be awarding college scholarships to qualified high school seniors or college […]

  I was recently quoted in a Courier and Press article, entitled “Vanderburgh Sheriff Wedding Wades into Hot-Button Gun Rights Dispute”. I appreciate that reporter Tom Langhorne has covered this topic and would encourage you to read the full article as well as my message here tonight concerning where I stand on the issue of […]

The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office graduated nineteen (19) new confinement officers from the Indiana Law Enforcement Basic Jail Officers Course today. Officers from Vanderburgh, Pike, Warrick, Tippecanoe, Posey, Martin and Bartholomew counties completed the Basic Jail Officer’s Course. In 2006 the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board approved the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office as a regional […]

DATE: Friday, February 01, 2019 SUBJECT: Six Jailed after Warrant Service Attempt Nets Unexpected Wanted Persons RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-NR-010 CONTACT: Major Noah Robinson AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding  Sheriff’s deputies took six individuals into custody while serving an arrest warrant at a residence in the area of N. First Avenue and W. Franklin Street. On Friday, […]

DATE: Thursday, January 31, 2019 SUBJECT: Stranded Motorist Injured on I-69 RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-NR–009 CONTACT: Lt. Mark Rasure AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding At approximately 08:39 this morning deputies with the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of I-69 near the 1.5 mile marker to a report of a stalled vehicle that had been […]

DATE: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 SUBJECT: School Bus Crash Results in Minor Injuries RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-NR-008 CONTACT: Lt. Mark Rasure AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding Around 06:40 this morning deputies from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office responded to a motor vehicle collision involving an Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation School Bus and a pickup truck at the intersection […]

DATE: Saturday, January 26, 2019 SUBJECT: Alcohol Likely a Factor in Water Rescue RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-NR-007 CONTACT: Lt. Mark Rasure AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding Shortly before 05:30 this morning Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Union Township river bottoms to check on a vehicle that was adrift in high water. The truck was […]

DATE: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 SUBJECT: Evansville Couple Arrested for Burglarizing North Side Home RELEASE NUMBER: 2019-NR-006 CONTACT: Lt. Mark Rasure AUTHORITY: Sheriff Dave Wedding Shortly before midday on January 15th, 2019 Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Green River Estates subdivision by a neighbor who had observed two unfamiliar individuals walking around a […]