CLAY COUNTY -- After a reckless driving suspect's  fingerprints were submitted to Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS,) officials were finally able to determine her identity.

Julie Miller,  20, of Louisville, Ky. was arrested by the Indiana State Police Tuesday. She was booked into the Clay County Jail, charged with resisting law enforcement; auto theft;, reckless driving; and refusal to identify self to law enforcement.

Sgt. Joe Watts explained that after the suspect was captured when fleeing ISP troopers and Clay County Sheriff’s deputies, she refused to identify herself when taken  into custody.

"Upon arrest and over the next days, Miller failed to identify herself to law enforcement," Watts said.

Miller reportedly was driving a stolen 2002 Ford Taurus, passing traffic and utilizing the emergency shoulder on westbound Interstate 70 near the 16.5MM before her arrest that afternoon.

Watts said Miller lost control of the vehicle and nearly struck two troopers before crashing near a wood line. She then fled on foot.

​The case has been investigated by ISP Master Trooper Troy Cobb.

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A West Terre Haute man is wanted in connection to a shooting  on the Wabash River that left one man hospitalized with bullet wound - related injuries last week.

Indiana Conservation Officers are seeking the assistance of the public in locating Steve A. Day, 67, of 7500 North Pottsville Road. 

​"An Indiana Conservation Officer K-9 located evidence in the area of the alleged shooting, leading to search warrants being issued which were executed at Mr. Day’s residence and surrounding property," Conservation Officer Nathan Lutz said, noting additional evidence was recovered.

The victim, Floyd Cheeseman, 39, also of West Terre Haute, was reportedly shot in the abdomen while in a boat with several other people on the Wabash River near Tecumseh, Ind. July 23 at around 8 p.m. 

 Call the Indiana Conservation Officers Dispatch Center at (812)-837-9536 or contact local law enforcement with any information on the case.

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