On November 10, 2025, MPD officers were called to assist Indiana Parole Agents in the 2400 block of Franks Drive. Parole had come to do a home check on a parolee, 34 year old Stephen McManus of Madison, who fled on foot when they arrived.

MPD began searching the area, and soon after Jefferson County Central Dispatch began receiving calls of a man running through the wood line near Bedford Falls and Forest Drive roads in the Miles Ridge Neighborhood. Additionally, a caller reported the man attempted to enter their residence through a back door, which was locked.

Officers Cody Lewis, Kyle Potter, and Coley Arvin responded. Officers located McManus in the woods between Bedford Falls Road and US 421. McManus fled from the Officers and attempted to open a locked vehicle parked at a home on US

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