{"id":646,"date":"2024-12-30T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=646"},"modified":"2025-02-12T20:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:53:58","slug":"felony-arrest","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/news\/felony-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Felony Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bottorff-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bottorff-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-647\" style=\"width:411px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bottorff-1.png 640w, https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bottorff-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday December 26th, 2024, Sammy D. Bottorff, age 31, of North Judson was taken into custody by deputies with the Starke County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bottorff was identified as a suspect in an investigation related to sexual abuse of a child. The arrest comes after several months of investigation by detectives with the Sheriff\u2019s Department. As a result of the arrest, formal charges were filed against Bottorff by the Starke County Prosecutors Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bottorff has been <a><\/a>charged with three counts of Child Molesting a Level 1 Felony, and three counts of Incest a Level 4 Felony. No further details will be made available due to minor victims being involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday December 26th, 2024, Sammy D. Bottorff, age 31, of North Judson was taken into custody by deputies with the Starke County Sheriff\u2019s Department. Bottorff was identified as a suspect in an investigation related&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[10],"class_list":["post-646","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/646\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starkecountysheriff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}