An Indiana man is accused of driving drunk and under the influence of pills and threatening to kill another couple on the road.
Jay Messer, 50, faces several charges, including three counts of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, intimidation, pointing a firearm at another person, operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and two counts of possession of a controlled substance. Court records reviewed by Law&Crime show he is being held in the Hancock County Jail under a $200,000 cash bond.
On Dec. 25, 2025, Christmas Day, a man and woman were driving east on 79th Street in Indianapolis behind a black Jeep Grand Cherokee, per court documents obtained by joint Fox and CBS affiliates WXIN and WTTV. The Jeep stopped at a stop sign and, “after several rotations of it being the driver’s turn to go,” didn’t move, so the man drove around and continued east into Hancock County, an eastern suburb of the metropolis…