A man considered as part of an Indiana State Police investigation into the murders of two Delphi teens was sentenced to probation in a local case.
Daniel J. Nations, 32, who is listed in court documents as homeless, was brought to Johnson County from Colorado earlier this year to face two counts of failure to appear in court, and one count of failure to register as a sex offender from when he previously lived here.
He pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender and was sentenced to about two years on probation.
Nations spent more than 100 days in the Johnson County jail, and was not interviewed as part of the investigation into the murders of Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, in Delphi, Johnson County Prosecutor Brad Cooper said.
German and Williams were killed and their bodies were found near the Delphi Historic Trail on Feb. 14, 2017.
State police had said at one point they were looking into Nations, who was arrested in Colorado in 2017 on a weapons possession charge, in their investigation. Police had been called because the vehicle Nations was driving matched the vehicle listed in complaints that a man had been bothering people near a hiking trail. Police also received reports of a man threatening people with a hatchet.
