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A Franklin man was arrested Wednesday after police said they found him in a child’s bed in Lakeview Apartments. Robert Alumbaugh, 23, was arrested for one count of criminal deviate conduct, a class B felony; one count of criminal confinement, a class C felony; and one count of strangulation, a class D felony. He was sent to Johnson County Jail on a $31,000 bond. Police did not disclose the age or gender of the child or say who reported the crime.

A 17-year-old Indianapolis boy was shot late Tuesday night in an east-side neighborhood near 17th Street and Colorado Avenue, then rode his bicycle more than a mile to the hospital when he couldn’t find a ride. The teen said he riding his bike just before midnight when he heard a car stop, doors shut and about six rounds of gunfire. The boy said a “friend” refused to give him a car ride, so he was forced to ride his bike. Police said the teen was in good shape with bullet wounds in the back. Police have no suspects.

An Indianapolis police officer and a 46-year-old woman from Fishers were injured in a crash on the city’s near-east side late Wednesday afternoon. The officer, Jerald Hunter, and the unidentified other driver were taken to Methodist Hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the accident at 38th Street and Fall Creek Parkway. According to the police report, the officer was on a run, but was not using a siren or lights. The Fishers woman, driving a Dodge Durango, pulled out of a gas station parking lot into the officer’s path. The vehicles collided and then hit a tree.

Police detectives are looking for a young woman they say is responsible for stealing seven vehicles from seven different Indianapolis car dealerships. According to police, a black female in her 20s has used a fake ID to trick dealerships into letting her take test drives over the last six weeks. After driving the cars off the lots, she never returns with them. Each time, the woman has presented a drivers license with the name Laronda Brown. Her most recent target was Circle City Enterprises, in the 5000 block of Southeastern Avenue, on Saturday.
 

Fire crews battled another vacant house fire in Indianapolis early Wednesday morning. Crews were called about 12:45 a.m. to 2341 N. LaSalle St., where a 2-story vacant house was on fire.  The fire spread to the vacant home at 2345 N. LaSalle St. No injuries were reported. Damage was estimated at $40,000 to each property. The fire occurred a day after a fire at a vacant home on Eastern Avenue spread to two other homes.
 

Indianapolis police are searching for a suspect that shot and killed a young man on the east side early Wednesday morning. Dwight T. Moore, 19, was shot to death about 1:30 a.m. at the Hearts Landing Apartments in the 9400 block of East 44th Street. Moore's mother said her son was trying to protect a woman when he was shot by a man who fled the scene shortly before police arrived.