HANCOCK COUNTY — A couple felony drug cases wrapped late last week in Hancock County Circuit Court following the acceptance of plea agreements by judge Scott Sirk on Thursday, Oct. 20.
Nathaniel Duane Rager, 38, Branchville Correctional Facility, was facing seven different charges from an incident in June 2016. Court records show three separate charges against him included Level 4 felony drug dealing and manufacturing crimes. In the end, Rager pleaded guilty to one Level 4 felony count of dealing in a narcotic drug while the other six charges against him were dismissed.
Rager was given a six-year term in the IDOC with five days of jail credit. Three years of the term are to be executed at the IDOC while the three other years are to be suspended to formal probation. Those three years are to be served on Community Corrections Home Detention as a condition of probation, court records showed.
The other drug case involved Chelsea Sue Tremain, 27, Connersville. She was facing four different crimes from an incident in July, including a Level 4 felony count of possession of a narcotic drug. That charge was dismissed. She instead plead guilty to a Level 5 felony count of possession of meth; a Level 5 felony count of possession of a syringe, while a Class A misdemeanor count of driving while suspended was dismissed.
Tremain was sentenced to 1,095 days, or three years to Indiana Department of Corrections with 180 days executed in the Hancock County Jail pending availability of residential treatment bed for the first Level 5 felony crime. The remaining 915 days were suspended to non-reporting probation pending successful completion as a participant in the Hancock County Drug Court Program. The defendant is ordered to comply with all terms of the Drug Court Program and probation, the court documents stated.
Tremain was given the same sentence for the second Level 5 felony charge. It is to run consecutive with the prior sentence, the court records state.
