GREENFIELD A 17-year-old Greenfield boy is in a juvenile detention facility today after being arrested Tuesday for allegedly selling handgun "switches" or machine gun conversion devices. The teen was taken into custody at his residence in the Saw Mill neighborhood on the west side of Greenfield after an investigators witnessed the teen participate in a hand-to-hand exchange with another person. Police, in executing a search warrant of the residence, found three illegal handguns, illegal narcotics and additional Glock switches. A Glock switch is a small device that can be placed on the back of ..read more

GREENFIELD Elanco Animal Health on Monday announced plans to cut 420 jobs as part of a "strategic restructuring." The layoffs will save the company about $30- to $35-million a year, Elanco said in a news release. Elanco reported a $141-million loss in the fourth quarter of 2023 and losses of $1.2 billion for all of last year. Jeff Simmons, President and CEO, said earnings took an unexpected hit of about $18 million in the last quarter. He blamed the bulk of the losses on the significant devaluation of the Argentinian peso. The layoffs and restructuring will "continue the shift of our investmen ..read more

GREENFIELD A 26-year-old Greenfield man has been arrested after two children reported the man touched them inappropriately under his care at the YMCA after-school program hosted by J.B. Stephens Elementary school. According to Greenfield PD, Jericho Johnson was arrested after parents called 911 on Feb. 14 to report he had touched their child. When officers arrived at the program, they learned a second child was reporting the same. Johnson had been sent home from work after the report from the second child was made to the YMCA and school. Officers later located Johnson and he was detained after ..read more

HANCOCK COUNTY All lanes of US 40 in Greenfield were closed Thursday morning as crews investigated a fatal incident. According to the Hancock County Sheriff's Office, deputies were dispatched at 3:53 a.m. to U.S. 40 between Mount Comfort Road and S 500 W for a person lying in the roadway. A deputy, who did not see the person lying in the roadway as they were in dark clothes, struck the person. It is unclear if the person in the roadway was already dead, according to police. The only information shared about the deceased is that they were a 41-year-old man. The roadway reopened around 7 a.m ..read more

GREENFIELD A Greenfield Police Officer was arrested for Operating While Intoxicated in Hamilton County. According to Fishers Police, officers stopped Greenfield officer Nichole Gilbert at around 1 a.m. on Sunday near 96th Street and Olio Road. Gilbert was driving a white passenger car that was missing a headlight and was making unsafe lane movements, according to Fishers PD. Gilbert, a 13-year veteran of Greenfield PD, has been placed on administrative leave until an internal investigation is completed. Greenfield police say Gilbert was off-duty at the time of the arrest and was not driving a ..read more

GREENFIELD Last week, five members of what Greenfield police are calling a South American Theft Group (SATG) were arrested last week and face burglary charges. Beginning with a burglary call on March 28 on Collins Way, officers were able to track down a suspect vehicle. That vehicle was stopped in Jasper County within an hour of the burglary with items from the home on Collins Way inside it. Five men aged between 25 and 40 were transported to the Hancock County Jail and face burglary charges ..read more

GREENFIELD This month Greenfield Fire Territory said two lives have been saved by fast acting CPR. Its as simple as locking your fingers and pumping your arms as hard as you can in the middle of the chest, thats how Stephanie Clayman kept her husband alive after he had a heart attack. I was getting ready to say we need to go to the ER, and he was gone, Stephanie Clayman said. On March 4, her husband, Randy Clayman had a massive heart attack. I felt a slight pain, Randy Clayman said. I came in and told her I wasn't feeling that great and I couldn't get comfortable and stuff and then next thing ..read more

GREENFIELD — The City of Greenfield opened their very first Safe Haven Baby Box over the weekend.The baby box is located at 210 W. New Rd., which is the Greenfield Fire Territory Station No. 422.The dedication was on Feb. 18 and included a blessing along with a speech from Mayor Chuck Fewell.The baby box was made possible through a partnership between the Life Choices Care Center and the family of a local hospital employee. Together they worked to raise more than $20,000 for the installation of the box.The box is dedicated to Trisha Dillman, a Greenfield resident who spent 25 years as a NICU n ..read more

GREENFIELD — A 39-year-old man has been arrested and faces a preliminary charge of murder after the death of another man in Greenfield.According to the Hancock County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the 5600 block of U.S. 40 in Greenfield at 10:19 p.m. where they located 69-year-old Freddie Patterson dead from gunshot wounds. At the scene, a 39-year-old man was arrested and is awaiting formal charges for the crime. WRTV will not name the suspect until formal charges are filed. This is a developing story ..read more

GREENFIELD, ind. — Greenfield Police are investigating after a man was found dead at a construction site Tuesday morning. Officers were called to the construction site on Windswept Road just after 9 a.m. when workers found a man dead. Police began investigating how the man ended up at the construction site. After realizing that a crash occurred in the area just after 4 a.m. Monday and no driver was located, police speculated that the man found at the site was the driver of the vehicle involved in the crash. The man was found approximately 600 yards from where the crash occurred. Investigators ..read more