Edwin Orozco Temblador, 28, last know address of 4300 block of Potomac Drive was still at large as of print time. A warrant was issued for his arrest April 11.
HANCOCK COUNTY — A Greenfield man who law enforcement say threatened a county man with a knife after stabbing and nearly killing the man’s dog while the two walked along a county trail is now facing multiple crimes.
As of print time, the man was still at large despite a warrant being issued for his arrest April 11.
Edwin Orozco Temblador, 28, last know address of 4300 block of Potomac Drive, has been charged with a Level 5 felony count of intimidation where the defendant draws or uses a deadly weapon, a Level 6 felony count of criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon, a Level 6 felony count of attempt of killing a domestic animal and a Level 6 felony count of torturing or mutilating a vertebrate animal all stemming from an early morning incident April 6.
According to a probable cause affidavit and police reports, officials received a call around 8:22 a.m. April 6 saying there was a man on the Pennsy Trail with a knife trying to stab another male near the 300 block of S. Meadow Song Court, New Palestine.
That part of the Pennsy Trail is located behind the Washington Village Apartment complex and just to the north of a New Palestine subdivision along U.S. 40. Temblador was apprently living at the apartment complex but was asked to leave following the incident, officials said.
Officials from the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department noted in the report that dispatch said they had several calls of a male who was feared as he was swinging a knife and chasing others on the trail. Once officials arrived in the area, they drove on the trail and soon located a shirtless male standing in the middle of the Pennsy Trail not too far off of Gem Road.
Law enforcement stated in the report that they parked their vehicles a safe distance away from the male, exited their vehicles and began giving the male, identified as Temblador, verbal commands while they held him at gunpoint. Officials noted Temblador told officials he did not have the knife anymore and immediately complied with their commands.
Temblador went down to his knees facing away from the officers and was handcuffed by a Cumberland officer without incident, officials said in the report. Law enforcement also noted that it appeared Temblador seemed to be having some sort of “mental crisis” or possibly a substance-induced psychosis.
Officials said they were able to identify Temblador from a Mexican passport he had on him at the time. The report stated that Temblador would say random things, such as he was the son of the Mexican president, and then he said, “You have 10 seconds,” and start counting “one, one, one, one.” He also told law enforcement he wanted to go back to Marion County “where the real killers are,” and then told officers to read his tattoos.
According to the affidavit, the victim who was chased by Temblador told officials he was walking his 7 year-old black lab and saw two men on the trail ahead of him and did not think much about it. The victim said that, as he began to walk past one of the men, (Temblador) shouted, “I’m going to kill your dog and then you.” The victim told officials Temblador had a large knife out and appeared to be sharpening it and also took off his T-shirt and that the victim was “taken aback” by the statements.
The victim told officials that Temblador started running up behind him and when the victim turned around to face Temblador, Temblador stabbed the dog in her back near her neck. The victim then ran to the nearest house and called 911. After other officers arrived on the scene, the victim was directed to an animal hospital in Indianapolis where the dog had emergency surgery.
A social media reported the day of the incident that the dog did survive the attack.
The probable casue affidavit stated Temblador was transported to Community East Hospital for an evaluation and was then transferred to the Community North Psychiatric Unit. Prosecutor Brent Eaton said that Temblador was released before his office was able to file official charges.
County law enforcement has been looking for Temblador since a warrant was filed for his arrest on April 11. That’s the same day the case was opened in Hancock County Superior Court 1.
