THE JOHN SZUBA FILE
John Matthew Szuba is a sergeant with the Goshen Fire Department. On November 5, 2026, the State of Indiana charged him in St. Joseph Superior Court 2 with two counts of domestic battery. He has pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent, the case is pending, and a charge is an allegation, not a conviction. Nothing in this file treats it as anything else: the charges below are printed exactly as filed, and everything a court has actually decided is labeled decided.
This file is the public record on the case and on the decade of service in front of it: his career on the City of Goshen's own paper, a 2025 OWI case that is finished and decided on its docket — printed in full, including the count the State's case lost — and the records requests now running to complete the file. Where the record has not been produced yet, this file says so and names the request that settles it. Where a claim cannot be verified, it does not run.
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 — Pleaded guilty to child seduction and official misconduct — four years imposed, all but two days suspended — and the state took twenty-seven months to revoke his certification.
The John Szuba File — YOU ARE HERE — 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.