Dustin Milligan, August 13th, 2026

The Terre Haute Police Department’s Flock transparency page highlights the April arrest of two attempted-murder suspects as a major example of how license-plate-reader technology helped officers capture wanted individuals.

The public-facing Flock story is titled: “Attempted Murder Suspects Located and Arrested Through Flock Alerting.”

According to the version published on the Flock portal, a neighboring law-enforcement agency asked THPD for help locating two individuals wanted for attempted murder and mob action.

The portal says the suspects’ gray Chrysler 300 was entered into a custom Flock hot list so the vehicle could be detected in real time.

The public account then states that a THPD Flock camera identified the vehicle and immediately alerted officers, who responded, located the Chrysler and arrested both suspects.

The Flock page goes even further, saying the technology “directly led” to the arrests and that without real-time LPR alerting, locating the vehicle would have been significantly delayed.

That sounds like a textbook Flock success story. But there is a problem. The official THPD incident report provided to Terre Haute Vice News contains no mention of Flock at all. In report 26THPD-02281, Officer M. Hall describes how the vehicle was located.

Hall says Detective Damanis had previously sent a department-wide email telling officers that Jordan and Jesse Kollman were believed to be driving a gray Chrysler 300 with Illinois plates and were wanted out of Illinois.

Hall says he then heard Officer T. Welch announce over the police radio that Welch had spotted a gray Chrysler 300 traveling west on Wabash Avenue.

Hall drove toward Wabash, personally saw the Chrysler, made a U-turn and followed it. His report says he was able to confirm that it was “the vehicle from Det. Damanis’ email.”

Hall then followed the Chrysler onto 11th Street and Mulberry Street before initiating a felony traffic stop. Officer Welch’s supplemental report gives an even clearer account of how he first spotted the vehicle.

Welch says he was actually responding to an unrelated residential-entry call when he found himself behind a Chrysler 300 with a unique paint job and Illinois license plate.

He wrote that he remembered the make, model and color from Detective Damanis’ email. Welch even says he could not remember the exact plate number.

He then radioed other officers that he believed he had found the wanted vehicle and continued providing its location until Hall was able to make the stop.

Another officer, G. Padgett, also specifically references the department-wide email identifying the Chrysler and its plate. His report makes no mention of a Flock alert either.

The remaining officer narratives describe the felony stop, arrests and transport to jail. Again, there is no mention of a Flock hit, Flock camera, custom Flock hot list or electronic alert anywhere in the incident narratives supplied by THPD.

That does not necessarily prove that Flock was never used. There could be additional records showing that the Chrysler was entered into a Flock hot list or that a camera generated an alert before officers spotted the vehicle.

But those records were not included in the incident report THPD produced. And that creates an important unanswered question. Did Flock alert officers to the Chrysler, as the public success story claims?

Or did Officer Welch visually recognize the Chrysler from a department-wide email while responding to another call, radio its location, and allow Hall to make the stop, exactly as the officers themselves wrote in the official police report?

Both could theoretically have happened. But right now, the public Flock success story tells one version of how the suspects were found, while the official THPD incident report documents another.