Arrest made in motorists' deaths

SCOTT COUNTY — Police said Friday that the driver involved in a December car wreck that killed an Austin couple on Interstate 65 was arrested earlier this month on charges involving the wreck.

Trooper Nathan Teusch served a Scott County arrest warrant on Jennifer P. Just, 34, of Borden, on Jan. 8, according to a news release Friday from the Indiana State Police.

Just was charged with two counts of operating a vehicle causing death with controlled substance in the blood, a Class B felony; two counts of failure to stop after accident resulting in death, a Class C felony; two counts of operating under the influence causing death, a Class C felony; reckless homicide, a Class C felony; two counts of operating a vehicle with a controlled substance in the blood causing serious bodily injury, a Class D felony; two counts of causing serious bodily injury while operating while intoxicated, a Class D felony; and one count of false informing, a Class A misdemeanor.

Just was the driver of a Ford Ranger pickup that rear-ended James C. and Thelma E. Jewell’s Toyota pickup on Interstate 65 near the 32-mile marker in December. The initial crash caused the Jewells’ vehicle to cross the median and come into the path of a southbound 2005 Volvo tractor-trailer.