THE DAVE WOOD FILE
This file is built from the government's own paper and from reporting that rests on it: a prosecutor's probable-cause affidavit, a Board of Public Works and Safety action, election-board results, city budget ordinances, the mayor's own issued statements, and bodycam footage a television station obtained through a public-records request. Where the record has not been produced yet, this file says so and names the request that settles it.
The frame, printed plainly at the front: no source located for this file alleges that Mayor Wood personally intervened in his son's 2022 traffic stop, or that he knew about it that night. The documented failure sits one level down — inside his police department, with his captain, inside his administration. What the mayor owns is everything after: the statements, the discipline the city will not explain, and a records campaign his city has answered, so far, with silence. That is the record below.
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 — The Goshen fire sergeant’s case as filed — two domestic-battery counts, a not-guilty plea, and a 2025 OWI the docket has already decided, dismissal included.
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 — YOU ARE HERE — The mayor whose son was driven home from a stop that never made the log — and the city that has answered none of it on paper.
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.
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