Jeremy Fitzgerald v. State of Indiana

BRADFORD, Judge.

Case Summary

[1] On April 19, 2014, Melanie Jones and her friend Appellant-Defendant Jeremy Fitzgerald staged a fake robbery in an apparent attempt to conceal Jones’s theft of money from her employer. According to the scheme concocted by Jones, Fitzgerald would run from Jones’s vehicle and Jones would act as if she had been robbed. Jones would then claim to be unable to identify the perpetrator. The scheme, however, did not go as planned because a Good Samaritan, Matthew Bingham, intervened in an attempt to thwart the apparent robbery. Bingham chased after and ultimately…