GREENSBURG, Ind. — A Decatur County police dispatcher faces two felony charges for sharing video from a criminal investigation publicly on a messaging app and on one of her social media pages.
Detectives from the State Police Versailles Post arrested 42-year-old Heidi Miracle of Holton, Indiana, on Thursday. She's accused of accessing an internal law enforcement system and releasing case sensitive information to the public. She was charged with official misconduct and disclosing intellectual property in Decatur County Thursday.
The Decatur County Sheriff’s Office contacted state police when they learned Miracle had accessed the law enforcement system Wednesday morning and took a video from a criminal investigation, then allegedly shared that video on a messaging app with people outside of law enforcement. Miracle also posted the recording on one of her social media pages.
According to her charging document, Miracle accessed the recorded interview of a criminal suspect on Facebook messenger and shared it with two people. The interview also appeared on her Facebook stories.
When a fellow dispatcher saw the Facebook stories post and told Miracle, Miracle told investigators she immediately took it down. She allegedly admitted to an investigator that she privately shared the recording in Facebook messenger with two friends, but Miracle said she didn't know how the suspect's video ended up on her Facebook page.
Sheriff Bill Meyerrose said Miracle has worked for the department for more than a decade. She's currently on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of her criminal case.
Miracle was released from jail and had yet to make her initial appearance in Decatur County Circuit Court Friday morning.
