(Versailles, IN) – Ripley County Prosecutor Ric Hertel says two Osgood residents were convicted and sentenced following separate jury trials in Circuit Court Judge Ryan King’s courtroom.
Thirty-seven-year-old Frank Platt was found guilty on January 7 of Burglary (Level 5 felony).
Platt was accused of breaking into a garage in Osgood in March 2025 and removing a number of items which were later recovered by law enforcement.
Hertel says Corporal Robert Curl with the Ripley County built the case through witness statements, video surveillance, physical evidence, and items bearing Platt’s name which were recovered from his vehicle.
The Court sentenced Platt on April 8 to five-and-a-half years in the Indiana Department of Correction, with no time suspended to probation.
Hertel says the Court found Platt’s criminal history and repeated probation violations as aggravating factors.
Jurors in Ripley County found 42-year-old Thomas McConnell II guilty on February 25 of Possession of Methamphetamine (Level 6 felony).
The charge stemmed from February 2023, when Indiana State Police Trp. Randall Miller pulled McConnell over on I-74 for going 82 in a 70 mph zone.
Hertel says a drug-certified K-9 alerted to narcotics, and a subsequent search revealed a non-factory hidden compartment in the engine area containing a crystal substance that tested positive for methamphetamine.
Following the jury’s verdict, McConnell entered a guilty plea to an enhancing circumstance establishing a prior conviction for Dealing in Methamphetamine out of Franklin County Circuit
Court, which elevated the offense to a Level 5 felony.
Hertel says McConnell was on both probation and parole at the time of the incident.
McConnell was sentenced on April 10 to six years in prison with no time suspended to probation.
Hertel represented the State at both jury trials and credited the investigative work of the Ripley County Sheriff’s Office and ISP.
