Marshall County Prosecutor Announces Conclusion of Lengthy Cases Involving Former Kosciusko County Sheriff

Back in 2015, the Marshall County Prosecutor’s Office was appointed Special Prosecutor for Kosciusko County to address cases related to former Kosciusko Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine, Warsaw Resident Kevin Bronson and a former college professor and Bronson’s “religious mentor” Mark Soto.

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Warsaw Detective Looks Toward Closure

Warsaw Police Detective Paul Heaton

While Warsaw Police Detective Paul Heaton was satisfied with the sentence of former Kosciusko County Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine, the scars of the two-year ordeal still remain.

The felony charge to which Rovenstine pleaded guilty, intimidation of a law enforcement officer, was the direct result of a conversation between Rovenstine and Detective Heaton. In Heaton’s testimony given during Rovenstine’s sentencing hearing in Kosciuscko Circuit Court Tuesday morning he said that he was doing due diligence on an investigation on inmate Kevin Bronson and another defendant, Mark Soto. Information during the proceedings revealed that Heaton’s investigation also included the fact that Rovenstine was allowing Bronson special privileges such as unrecorded phone calls and other actions not commonly awarded to other inmates. When that came to the former sheriff’s attention, Rovenstine blocked Heaton’s access to the jail.

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