Some students described rampant alcohol abuse and a thriving drug scene - of which Lauren was allegedly a part. "I didn't have any qualms about saying goodbye," Charlene said.īut what Lauren's parents only later came to learn from investigators is that Bloomington, like many college towns, has its dark side. When Rob and Charlene dropped Lauren off for her freshman year at Indiana University in 2009, they felt she was in a safe place. Lauren Spierer's parents, Rob and Charlene, talk about their missing daughter. "It's the not knowing what happened to her, where she might be. "I really just would like to hear, 'This is where you can find your daughter,'" Charlene Spierer, Lauren’s mother, told ABC News. In the course of the re-invigorated investigation, Garrett and investigators with the Beau Dietl firm tracked down a former classmate of Spierer who allegedly had claimed he knew “the guys that did that.” Did students witness her die after a drug overdose and then dispose of her body?
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on a Bloomington street corner, shortly after leaving a friend’s off-campus apartment.Īfter working through a series of leads involving ex-convicts, Indianapolis drug dealers and members of a notorious biker gang, Garrett said the focus now is on whether something happened closer to home - possibly at a party where she may have continued her night of partying. She was last seen alive at approximately 4:30 a.m. Do you have information about the disappearance of Lauren Spierer? You can send your tips confidentially to Brad Garrett and the ABC News Investigative Unit by CLICKING HERE.
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Tune in to “20/20” tonight for the full Brian Ross report “Looking for Lauren”. The conditions of supervised release also prohibit Craft from associating with members of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club.Their 20-year-old daughter, a native of suburban New York, disappeared in the early hours of Jafter a night of drinking and alleged drug use, according to the initial police investigation and later accounts from friends. The conditions of supervised release subject him to random drug tests and random searches of his person, vehicle, and residence by probation officers. Blackington, who prosecuted the case for the government, Craft was also sentenced to four years of supervised release following the imposition of his sentence. The firearm was later found to be an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer’s service weapon that had been stolen from the officer’s police cruiser on November 26, 2009.Īccording to Assistant U.S. 40 caliber Glock handgun to another individual to prevent law enforcement officers from seizing the firearm. In addition, when the FBI arrested Craft on August 4, 2011, he attempted to transfer a stolen. On one occasion as enforcer, Craft confronted one of the methamphetamine customers with a club to collect a drug debt.
As part of his guilty plea, he admitted to distributing amounts of methamphetamine for an individual named James Taylor, his alleged source of drug supply. “We will continue to be aggressive in prosecuting anyone found to be engaged in the deadly business of drugs and violence.”Ĭraft was the “enforcer” for the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club’s Indianapolis chapter. “Our office is committed to eliminating organized crime here in Indianapolis,” said Hogsett. This case was the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Safe Streets Task Force. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker following his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a stolen firearm. Craft (aka Little Jack), age 38, of Indianapolis, has been sentenced to 78 months (six years, six months) in prison by U.S. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Jackie D.