Zachary Levi Titara
HANCOCK COUNTY — A Lewisville man who was accused of multiple felony drug crimes and was facing over a decade in prison from an incident in Hancock County back in 2017, took a plea deal sending him instead to home detention.
Zachary Levi Titara, 32, 8000 block of South Ind. 103, was facing a Level 2 felony count of dealing in a scheduled I controlled substance with weight at least 28 grams, a Level 6 felony count of dealing in a schedule I controlled substance, a Level 6 felony count of maintaining a common nuisance, a Level 6 felony count of neglect of a dependent and four different misdemeanors crimes stemming from crimes in July 2017.
The most serious charge against Titara carried anywhere from 10 to 30 years in prison. However, the plea deal called for Titara to admit guilt to a lesser Level 5 felony count of dealing in a scheduled I controlled substance with all the other charges dismissed.
The plea agreement was accepted in Hancock County Circuit Court by Judge Scott Sirk late last week. Sirk sentenced Titara to a four-year term in the Indiana Department of Corrections with three years executed to be served as a direct commitment on the Hancock County Home Detention program and one year suspended to probation.
According to a probable cause affidavit, officials with the Greenfield Police Department went to the 400 block of Brookstone Drive on July 23, 2017 for a security check at a residence where a front door was wide open.
Officials went into the home and found a variety of illegal drugs and labeled the home as a “possible drug grow,” the affidavit said. Law enforcement spoke with a woman who came to the home while they were there and she told officials her grandson, Titara, his wife and a three-year-old child lived there.
Officials noted in the report the three-year-old child had access to the grow operation, marijuana, mushrooms, syringes and other drug paraphernalia, which is why the neglect charge was filed. Officials also noted they found several types of drugs in the residence and multiple guns.
Prosecutor Brent Eaton said at the time of Titara’s arrest in November 2023, over 6 years after the crime, according to office records, charges were filed against Titara in 2017. However, he must have taken off, because no one had seen or heard from Titara until he was picked up in Hamilton County in July of 2023 for the same type of drug charges.
It was that arrest in Hamilton County that put Titara back on the county’s radar, Eaton said after finally getting the 2017 local charges addressed.
Court records show Titara is facing a Level 2 felony count of dealing in a scheduled I controlled substance along with four different misdemeanors in Hamilton County from an incident there in July of 2023.
Court records there show that case is set to be settled via a plea agreement in late February.
