THE TIMOTHY BARBER FILE
Timothy Barber was a South Bend police officer. On July 13, 2022, he pleaded guilty to child seduction and official misconduct — felonies arising from his sexual conduct with a 16-year-old in his patrol car while he was on duty. On September 9, 2022, the court imposed four years and suspended all of it but the two days he had already spent in jail. He resigned from the department six days after sentencing. The state board that licenses Indiana police officers did not revoke his law-enforcement certification until December 16, 2024 — more than two years after the plea.
This file is the public record of that case and of the badge in front of it: the six counts exactly as filed — with the four counts the State dismissed printed at the same size as the two he admitted — the plea, the sentence as the court's own docket records it, the leave and the resignation, the certification, the civil case, and the records requests now running to complete the file. The child in this case is never named or described in this file beyond the words of the charge itself.
CONVICTED on his guilty plea, September 9, 2022: Child Seduction (Level 5 felony) and Official Misconduct (Level 6 felony). Four counts DISMISSED the same day. Sentence: 4 years imposed, all but 2 days suspended; probation — the docket records it completed September 8, 2026. Resigned September 15, 2022; the Board of Public Safety accepted the resignation September 21, 2022. Certification revoked December 16, 2024 (Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board list). Records now running: his complete SBPD file and his state certification file, both requested November 6, 2026.
KEEP READING — THE PUBLIC COURT RECORDS
Every file in this series is built the same way: public records, exhibited in full, and nothing in them that the paper does not say. Finish one file, and the next is waiting — the loop does not close.
THE WHOLE SHELF — CHOOSE BY CATEGORY
The Shawn Apps File — 13 appointments, 6 terminations for cause, 4 waiver denials — the academy’s own ledger, and the departments that kept hiring him.
The Aaron Knepper File — the sergeant in his own department’s log, case 25-6153, and seventeen years of paper behind one line.
The Ryan O’Neill File — The sergeant who shot Eric Logan — cleared for the shooting, a convicted felon for the month before it, and barred from public employment by his own plea.
The Tim Corbett File — The homicide commander from the police-tapes fight — now a $90-an-hour school investigator with no end date on his contract.
The Timothy Barber File — YOU ARE HERE — The patrol officer who pleaded guilty to child seduction — four years imposed, all but two days suspended, and a certification that survived two more years.
The John Szuba File — A Goshen fire sergeant charged in November 2026 — the case as filed, a not-guilty plea, and a decade of service on the city's own paper.
The Mike Schalk File — The council president, on tape — and the 1985 record underneath it.
The Sharon McBride File — The DuComb Center director the county fired in 2024 — and the sworn deposition that put her District 3 seat in question.
The Dave Wood File — Handed the mayor’s chair by a party caucus in 2010 and unchallenged on the ballot since 2019 — and the stop of his son that never made the log.
The Vicki Becker File — The 2003 discovery letter that left two internal-affairs files out of a murder case — and the exoneration that came 19 years later.
The Pete Agostino File — Roseland’s town attorney since at least 2000 — no contract, no appointment vote, and no pay figure anywhere in public.
The Nikki Lopez File — Found dead at 32, labeled a natural death by 5:36 AM — and a prosecutor who says no agency ever called her.
The Mishawaka FOP Lodge 91 File — A police lodge’s decade of deficits in its own tax returns, the staffing deal it co-wrote, and its official Facebook account in the reaction list of File No. 1.