Ryan Mears
Coverage of Ryan Mears in the Nexus archive.
- Cops arrest 14-year-old accused of gunning down business school graduate on way to ballgame
A 14-year-old suspect was arrested for shooting and killing 23-year-old Brett Scrogham, an Indiana University Business School graduate, in a downtown Indianapolis parking garage while he was en route to a baseball game. The suspect faces potential adult charges under Indiana law, and the case has drawn public attention due to Scrogham's recent academic achievements and community involvement.
- Patel touts FBI DNA breakthrough he says busted illegal immigrant in decade-long serial rape case
An illegal immigrant, Leonel Catalan-Torreblanca, is facing 30 charges in connection to a decade-long serial rape case in Marion County, Indiana, after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement DNA collection cracked the case. The series of sexual assaults spanned more than a decade, with the first reported incident in March 2013 and the most recent in January 2024. Catalan-Torreblanca was arrested at a relative's house within four hours after his DNA profile was entered into the FBI's Combined DNA Index System.