This and that: Scratching the surface on a Saturday

Taletha Coles back in court, seeking files to ‘redeem’ herself. Purdue breaks ground on new dorm. Golf pro reconsiders plea in fatal drunken driving crash. A plane crash near Otterbein. And more.

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Just scratching the surface on a Saturday morning …

TALETHA COLES, FORMER FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE, BACK IN COURT, SEEKING FILES THAT ‘REDEEM’ HER

Taletha Coles was briefly back in a courtroom Friday morning, brought from the Tippecanoe County Jail and representing herself with a request to get transcripts and grand jury files in the theft case tied to her time at Fairfield Township trustee.

Coles, shackled and dressed in maroon prison garb, told Tippecanoe Superior Judge Randy Williams during a short status hearing that she’d asked the attorneys who represented her to give her the files connected with a 2022 indictment on more than 40 counts of theft, tax exemption fraud and official misconduct and tied to her 2023 guilty plea on four of those charges.

Taletha Coles, on the day in May 2022 Indiana State Police searched her house in connection into her actions as Fairfield Township trustee, Coles was in court Friday to get records from that day and from the rest of her case. (Photo: Dave Bangert)