EVANSVILLE – City police on Wednesday reported finding a developmentally disabled man suffering from open wounds on both feet — injuries so severe a blanket covering them had adhered to the sores — along with what appeared to be a burn on his arm, inside a home with no running water and little in the way of food.
The discovery quickly led to the arrest of the man’s brother, Micheal Gregory Tinsley, and Tinsley’s wife, Tamera Lynn Eaton, who Evansville police say had been the man’s sole caregivers since his mother died roughly a month ago, according to court records.
Tinsley, 39, and Eaton, 47, face preliminary charges of neglect of a dependent causing injury, a Level 5 felony, and obstruction of justice, a Level 6 felony. Tinsley also faces a marijuana possession charge. Vanderburgh Circuit Court Magistrate Joshua Orem found probable cause in both cases Thursday…