Brian Back Receives Sentence in Starke Circuit Court

Starke County Courthouse
Starke County Courthouse
Brian Back was sentenced in Starke Circuit Court Thursday morning.

He previously pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the state to an amended count of Dealing in Methamphetamine as a Class B felony. Judge Kim Hall sentenced Back to 13 years in the Department of Corrections with no part of that sentence suspended. If he completes a therapeutic community program while incarcerated, he may petition the court for a modification of his sentence.

Back was arrested in May after Starke County Sheriff’s deputies reportedly found him hiding in a bathroom in the Stay-4-Less motel in Knox where methamphetamine-related paraphernalia and precursors were found.

Three Arrested on Meth Charges at Hamlet Motel

MethLaw enforcement officers conducting a welfare check at a local motel arrested three people on a cache of drug charges. Deputies from the Starke County Sheriff’s Office and officials from Starke County Community Correction went to the Stay 4 Less Motel on U.S. 30 in Hamlet yesterday to check on 57-year-old Michael Campbell of Knox. When they arrived, they reportedly saw occupants of room 4 run into a bathroom and hide. The officers found Brian Back, 28, and Monica Hunt, 26, both of Plymouth, hiding in the bathroom and reportedly saw several items used to make meth in plain view. They contacted Starke Circuit Judge Kim Hall, who issued a search warrant for the room. Members of the Indiana State Police Clandestine Lab Team assisted with the search, which reportedly turned up precursors, paraphernalia and meth. Back, Hunt and Campbell are jailed on charges of possession of meth, precursors and paraphernalia, manufacturing meth and maintaining a common nuisance. Formal charges are pending.