Is there Collusion Between the LaPorte County Prosecutor’s Office and the Michigan City Police Department to Withhold Evidence toget Arrestees to Plead Out?

LaPorte County's 3 yr. old New Courthouse in Michigan City. It seems we are still paying for it.

On March 13, 2025, I was arrested by the Michigan City Police for a bogus OWI charge,

despite I had nothing to drink, having been made to take the breathalyzer test three times.

Once in the parking lot of the CVS on Franklin St, once at the police station, and one last

time early in the morning at the LaPorte County Jail in LaPorte before posting bail and

blew 0.00 each time.

This all started round 5 PM on Thursday, March 13, when I was attempting to complete a

GrubHub order at the China One restaurant located at the same plaza on Franklin Street

as the CVS. I had a high fever the morning of March 13 and per recommendations from

the Karwick CVS in the morning, I took a dramamine and two ibuprofens to combat the

fever in the morning and went to bed for most of the morning and early afternoon.

The ordeal started when, after picking up the order from China One, I went into the CVS

parking lot as the instructions were to deliver the order at that particular CVS, which I

thought was odd, as the CVS is just across the parking lot from the China One restaurant.

I had gotten in a light fender bender with a white car in the CVS parking lot and a

mysterious witness was yelling at me like a raving lunatic and went into the CVS and then

called the police.

The owner of the car I hit was a woman named Vanessa Flores and she was very

courteous and we were about to exchange license and insurance information, despite the

only damage was minor cosmetic damage, not even a dent.

The officer who appeared was Officer Daniel Revoir of the Michigan City Police

Department to investigate the scene. Thinking that it being a minor fender bender would

make the officer write this off, we would exchange license and insurance info and that

would be it and I would be about my way, it turned out this became a nightmare which

would hold my life hostage, ruin my entire summer, cost me a reliable source of much

needed income and prevent me from getting important medications from Canada.

What I though was a minor fender bender turned into three and later four police cars

showing up at the CVS parking lot, which I thought was a bit over kill for a minor fender

bender. Before I knew it, Officer Revoir was accompanied with four other officers, Douglas

Abraham, Christopher Manns, and Antonio Carire, all from the Michigan City Police

Department. They were all interrogating me and making me do these field sobriety tests

which I could not do due to severe arthritis in my knees.

I could not believe the officers thought I was impaired and Revoir then proceeded to radio

for a DRE or a drug recognition expert to evaluate me. He then told me to get into his

police car and drove me to the Michigan City Police Station where I was interrogated in the

center of the station’s holding facility.

The officers then were joined by Sgt. Thomas Blythe, who was a DRE instructor and that is

when all hell broke loose. I ended up spending the entire night in the LaPorte County Jail,

which is one of the dirtiest and worst maintained in the entire State of Indiana.

While in the LaPorte County Jail, I was made to take off my clothes and put on these nasty jail clothes which felt like they weren’t washed properly for decades. Later, after this ordeal and my initial court hearing on May 9, 2025, I attended a county commissioner’s meeting with a couple of political associates from the LaPorte County GOP and learned to my dismay about the poor conditions and even dangerous conditions of the LaPorte County Jail.

The county commissioners were taking bids for a construction company to cement in a handicap bench in one of the pods, which is not well secured, causing the shower to move and water to leak onto a gas line, which is so corroded that it is at the brink of breaking, which

could cause the inmates to get gas poisoning or God forbid the leaking gas does not

ignite. I also learned the jail’s infrastructure is in such a state of disrepair that the laundry

does not even work properly, and I now have a fungal infection under my arms that won’t

go away.

Going back to the May 9th court date, I was hoping that I would have the blood test results

and this ordeal would be finally over with and I would get acquitted and I could go back to

my normal life. This, unfortunately was not the case. I had to sit in the courtroom together

with my supporters and listen to all the people from the county jail enter their pleas before

they even got to my case, wasting my entire day.

I and my core supporters basically wasted our entire morning to find out that my attorney

never received any blood test results or any other discovery for that matter. Due to this, my

attorney motioned for a bench trial on July 25. This literally has caused me to be without

insulin for more than two months, which for someone with Type 2 diabetes can be very

dangerous. I literally started to think that maybe someone in the Michigan City Police

tampered with the samples to get me found guilty and this gut feeling still wouldn’t go

away.

I finally had enough and sent a couple of certified letters to both the Michigan City and

Porter Police Departments demanding the body cam footage from all the officers involved.

What is interesting with this was the Porter Police Department had no problem handing

over the DVD with the body cam footage and their police chief had contacted me by phone

the day after receiving my letter. The Michigan City Police Department, on the other hand,

was very hostile and their person in charge of internal investigation and dispensing of all

footage pertaining to individual cases, Lt Steve Westphal, claims by use of the Indiana

APRA or Access to Public Records Act was “inappropriate” and claimed I had a right for

discovery to get the footage. In the meantime, I had reached out to Indiana’s Lt Governor,

Micah Beckwith’s office and asked them to contact the Indiana State Department of

Toxicology to find out what was going on with my blood test results.

One of Lt Governor Micah Beckwith’s staff had contacted me after he reached out to the

ISDT and he had informed me that they had actually released the blood test results

LaPorte County Prosecutor’s office and the Michigan City Police Department on May 7,

2025. This could have been over with by May 9, had they not withheld this key piece of

evidence. The staffer who called me had learned that the police and the prosecutor’s

office had deliberately withheld these blood test results and believes my civil rights have

been violated.

After speaking to several people to gather information for my upcoming campaign for

Indiana State Senator, District 4, the police and the prosecutor do this rather frequently to

get their accused to plead out, thus depriving them of a fair and unbiased trial.

What does this mean for Hoosiers in Michigan City or in greater LaPorte County? Both the

US Constitution and the Indiana State Constitution both state that a person is considered

innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Withholding evidence deliberately

to deprive an accused of a fair trial is a serious violation of that person’s civil rights and

may even be a Federal crime.

One thing I have to say about LaPorte County Prosecutor, Sean Fagan, he needs to be

ashamed of himself, especially doing this to a fellow Republican. He will definitely be

confronted at the next Republican breakfast in LaPorte. I am calling all Republicans in

LaPorte County to find a qualified attorney who is capable to primary Fagen in the next

election and who will operate the prosecutor’s office with dignity and fairness.

Political hostility and my arrest could very likely be related. As a Republican running for

the Indiana State Senate against Democrat Rodney Pol, and Michigan City currently

having a far leftwing Democrat mayor who is known to plot against other Republicans in

the area may have singled me out, as I have campaigned against corruption in 2022 when

I ran for that same seat with 20 percent of the vote, which is unheard of for a first time

candidate.

Lt Governor Micah Beckwith’s office will be contacting the Michigan City Police Chief over

this issue and I will be filing a lawsuit against the police. We will be notifying the LaPorte

County GOP at the GOP monthly breakfast next month and I also plan to file a complaint

against Mr Fagen and his deputy prosecutors for prosecutorial misconduct with the Indiana

Supreme Court Judicial Disciplinary Commission. We cannot allow the people who are

charged to enforce our laws to become lost in corruption and abuse the public trust.

The Indiana State Police has been notified and I will not rest until justice has been delivered.

July 25 came and just a couple of days before the bench trial, my attorney had contacted

me to inform me that the bench trial was postponed until August 4 due to the new

information from Micah Beckwith’s office. Later, as I was at my doctor’s office, my attorney

contacted me by phone again to let me know that my case was to be dismissed due to the

blood test results showing nothing and was missing the cause number, thus they were

unable to prove it was my blood.

I can only assume that the Michigan City Police are now in panic after they received a

phone call from the lt governor’s office pertaining to my case. Basically, the Michigan City

Police Department and the LaPorte County Prosecutor’s office were caught in the act of

withholding evidence in my case and they will have some difficult questions to answer very

soon.

I am currently filing a complaint alleging prosecutorial misconduct against Prosecutor Sean

Fagan and his two deputy prosecutors for colluding with the Michigan City Police

Department for withholding key evidence that could be acquit me. I will be calling for the

Indiana State Police to investigate the corruption within the Michigan City Police

Department, who gave the order to withhold this evidence, who gave the order to lie to my

attorney, who is one of the best criminal defence attorneys in the LaPorte-Michigan City

area?

I believe that certain police officers, such as Officer Daniel Revoir needs to be terminated

from the Michigan City Police Department for misconduct and false arrest, creating

charges for OWI. Officer Daniel Revoir cannot be trusted to patrol the streets of Michigan

City. In the body cam footage from Porter Police Sgt. Thomas Blythe, the smirk on Officer

Revoir’s face is very telling of what he is capable of doing.

I intend to retain a group of civil rights attorneys and I may even take this to Federal court

and I intend to not only file a civil suit against the Michigan City Police and the City of

Michigan City, but I also attend to file criminal charges against all those who conspired to

build this case against me.

I do intend to run for Indiana State Senate, District 4, and even more determined now, after

having lived through all this. I will make my campaign about cleaning up the corruption

within all the police departments within Senate District 4. I believe it is high time to have

municipal police chiefs and their second in command be elected by the general public

within those municipalities. We elect our county sheriffs, so why not our local police chiefs.

We also need a police oversight board in every municipality which should also be an

elected body consisting of three to five members depending on the size of the municipality.

I believe a police force is needed to protect and SERVE the municipality they are charged

to keep the peace in, however, having dirty cops and police chiefs who do the bidding of a

corrupt mayor or town council is totally unacceptable and erodes the public trust in the

police in general.

I would even go so far as having prospective police officers go through a public

questioning so the general public can vet them and ask them what they believe in to

enforce the laws. Public input is important, as it holds the people who serve us to be

accountable to the general public and not some corrupt city or town official. I would also

venture to say that prospective police hires who sit on volunteer fire departments or

volunteer first responders as well as key figures of their communities should have top

priority in being hired by a police department.

Last, we need to educate the public, which is increasingly leary of police as it is, to tactics

and propaganda used in color revolutions and regime change operations. In 2020, we had

the Summer of Love, which was America’s color revolution intended to unseat President

Trump and put in Biden. Groups, like Defund the Police have drastically exacerbated the

problem with the police and the public.

Basically, the Defund the Police movement was intentional to destroy the reputation of

good police officers, burn down police stations. For this to work, the NGOs who created

this movement needed a catalyst to get this going. They got their catalyst with George

Floyd and the dangerous rhetoric was all ready to go.

What was the effects of the Defund the Police movement? The answer to this is quite

simple. It was not about defending the police at all. It was intended make the good police

officers who wanted to keep their oaths to uphold the Constitution to be uncomfortable to

do their jobs and eventually quit the force. They would be then replaced with young thugs

who are yes men for the regime these NGOs wanted in place. I have seen this done in

several other countries. In 2003, during the Rose Revolution in Georgia, which brought

Saakashvili to power had a movement similar to the Defund the Police movement here.

This movement was called “kmara” which is the Georgian word for “enough.” They

symbols were also the same, an upright fist in a diamond. The colors were different, but

the concept was the same. It was to get rid of the police that were not going to enforce the

laws of the regime these NGOs wanted in place.

This resulted into a horrible 8 years for many Georgians under the reign of President Saakashvili, who is mentally unstable and resulted in beatings in police stations across Georgia from Tbilisi to Batumi, Abu-Graib style tortures in Georgian prisons, especially the Kldani Prison in Tbilisi. Some of these people were even beaten to death. This can happen in the US and in Indiana if we don’t do our best to erraticate this Defund the Police rhetoric and encourage the American police we used to have back in the day, where you had cops interact with the community, play with the kids, engage in friendly conversations with ordinary law abiding citizens in the street.

We get back to this kind of policing, it would restore the public trust in our police in the future.

By Johannes Poulard