Federal prosecutors indicted 22 people earlier this month in a wide-ranging gambling and extortion ring operating out of Gino’s Steakhouse in Merrillville and Paragon in Hobart.
A federal judge sentenced a former Dyer seminary school marketing executive to 15 years Monday for child pornography. Michael Deckinga, 42, pleaded guilty in January to distribution of child pornography.
As a self-proclaimed Christian with a wife and seven children, Michael Deckinga lived an outwardly normal life in Dyer while working as a marketing executive for a Dyer seminary school....
Marvin “Geno” Clark, 33, was convicted of four counts of murder and three counts of burglary, plus four gun enhancements. Two of the murder counts were while committing a burglary....
A jury convicted Chicago resident Marquis “Smiley” Falls with neglect for holding out his 10-month old daughter out facing forward when police arrived at a Gary trailer park in August...