LAWRENCE CO.—Weeks after a Palestine police officer/former Lawrence County deputy was stabbed in Vincennes, there’s still no resolution—or charges—pending in the case.
Josh Green, 28, originally of Bridgeport but now living in Palestine (Crawford County), received a substantial injury to his arm when his girlfriend and mother of one of his offspring, Lyndsey Polston, 25, also of Bridgeport but lately of the same residence in Palestine, ostensibly meeting him at Denny’s in Vincennes for a visitation exchange with the three-year-old girl, stabbed his arm through with a pair of scissors on the evening of Saturday, August 17, 2013.
Polston, as of press time, remains free after being released from Knox County’s jail two days later, and no charges have been filed against her.
This might be because local law enforcement in Vincennes are still trying to sort out exactly what happened on the night in question, where Denny’s employees have stated that the stabbing occurred inside the restaurant, yet Green maintains that it occurred in his pickup truck parked outside the place.
What the staff said
The information about what occurred on that night came to Disclosure staff directly from the employees of Vincennes’ Denny’s, where staff had gone for a late dinner without knowing that a stabbing had even occurred before arriving.
The outline of the story went like this: Green was in the restaurant, at a table, with another female, when Polston came in with the little girl. They began arguing, which escalated quickly, with Green, said the employees in their perception of it, “egging her on.”
Polston, in response, reached into her purse or bag and pulled out what appeared to be a very sharp pair of sewing or craft scissors, and stabbed Green’s arm as it was stretched out on the table, nearly pinning his arm to the table when it went in one side and out the other.
Green arose quickly and made it out to his truck, shouting to those he passed by on the way out, “Did you see that?? That crazy bitch just stabbed me in the f^*king arm!!”
Employees described a blood trail out the restaurant and across the sidewalk to his vehicle. The scissors, they said, fell out of Green’s arm before he reached his vehicle, a red extended-cab truck.
It’s unclear who called police, but they responded quickly.
Polston and the other female were taken to the police department for questioning, while Green was transported by ambulance, after treatment at the scene by EMTs, to Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes.
Polston was lodged at the Knox County Jail on an arresting (preliminary) charge of Battery with a Deadly Weapon Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, an Indiana Class C felony.
Per Indiana policy for domestic batteries, she was held for a requisite 48 hours after being booked at 3 a.m. Her release on the following Tuesday morning was without a bond being posted, so it’s unclear if she drove herself out at 3 a.m. the morning of the 20th, or if someone arranged transportation for her.
The opposing version
Green’s version of events differs wildly from what restaurant employees are telling.
In a petition he filed August 19 for an Order of Protection, Green outlined an opposite scenario.
The petition for an emergency order of protection was actually taken to Richland County because of an issue with a judge in Lawrence on that day…despite the fact that both Green and Polston live in Crawford, according to friends and relatives of both.
Appearing before Richland’s judge, Larry Dunn, Green issued the following as the reason why he wanted the OP, the second since 2011 Green has taken out against Polston:
“August 17 2013 around 7:15 Illinois time during a child visitation exchange at Denny’s Restaurant in Vincennes, Indiana, Lyndsey Polston became verbally and physically aggressive and stabbed me with a pair of scissors. This happened with our daughter, Annalise Rose Green, in the vehicle. Anna Sanders was with me in the vehicle at the time of the exchange and also was a witness (to) the incident. There are pending charges against Lyndsey Polston in Knox County Indiana for assault with a deadly weapon at this time.”
Plenty of witnesses
Green is maintaining, as he has told his boss, Palestine police chief Jeff Besing, that the stabbing occurred in his truck, not inside the restaurant. There is no explanation for how the blood trail went from the restaurant to the truck, unless Green is claiming he went into the restaurant after being stabbed, a claim which is not made on the petition, nor listed in available Vincennes’ police reports.
However, why he would go inside the restaurant is unclear, as there were apparently plenty of people around him both “inside” the truck (new girlfriend Anna Sanders) and outside: Polston’s mother and her husband, who were apparently with Polston when she went to the visitation drop-off.
“I was told by Anna Sanders that at the scene when I was stabbed and being attended to by medics, Lyndsey’s mother, Kathy Waller and her husband were coaching my daughter and asking her questions,” Green submitted as the last paragraph of his petition. “They were saying did Daddy hurt Mommy? Did Daddy hurt Mommy, they were trying to get her all confused and to get her say that Daddy hurt Mommy when in fact I was the victim and was stabbed.”
A source close to the case advised only recently that Polston is claiming her nose was broken in the altercation somehow; whether this is true or not remains unknown as of press time. However, if it is true, that might account for the delay in filing charges against her…as both of them might end up charged.
Disturbing behavior
Polston’s behavior in this instance, as outlined in the petition for OP, reflects what the 2011 OP did: that she is unreasonable, unstable and dangerous to herself and others.
In the March 2011 OP, produced in an article in Disclosure in late 2011, Green outlined outrageous acts he alleged Polston perpetrated against him and herself, including fighting with him and biting his penis in the process; slamming her head against a wall so hard or so many times that the wallboard cracked; and nearly causing him to run off the road while driving with their infant in the car.
Since that time, he has confided to Disclosure sources that she continues to slam her head against walls or, in one notable incident, a refrigerator, this so hard that the fridge dented.
Disturbingly, he also told sources that the little girl, Anna, has begun to display such bizarre behavior, being exposed to it on a daily basis with Polston.
In Green’s petition, he states that Polston continues to act out in front of the little girl during visitation exchanges (when she allows the exchanges, anyway; his list of visitation denials in the OP is long).
“Every time I would ask for visitation,” Green wrote, “Lyndsey would be mad and tell me I couldn’t have Annalise for visitation and if I continued to ask for her visitation that Lyndsey would call the police. She said she would say I was harassing her and have me fired from my job. Lyndsey constantly told me I had to do what she said or I wouldn’t have nothing when she got done with me. The times that I did meet her for the visitation exchange, before the stabbing, she would scream and cuss at me in front of our daughter Annalise, and at times try to physically hit me. Lyndsey would say she could say anything she wanted about me and that she could make people believe her. I have been fearful because I really think she would do it. Lyndsey throws extreme fits when things someone doesn’t do exactly as she says.”
Confusing cavorting
What’s odd about the OP is that neighbors of the rental Green has in Palestine, since taking up employment there in the late Spring of this year, say Polston lives there with the little girl.
Worse, Green is apparently still paying for a residence he purchased for him and Polston when they were still technically “together,” this on East Griggs Street in Bridgeport. He listed this address as “petitioner’s address” (his) in the OP petition, at one spot, then an address on South Pike in Palestine as a “place where protected persons are present.”
Green confided in Disclosure sources earlier this year that he was allowing Polston to believe they were still “together” so she wouldn’t keep the little girl from him, although from the petition, it appears she’s succeeded in that anyway.
Green was told at this time by Disclosure sources that the pre-disturbed Polston would view Green allowing her to live rent-free in the home he purchased in Bridgeport as meaning they were indeed a “couple,” even though he was busy seeing other people.
The fact the Green was cavorting with other females while living at the Bridgeport house with Polston, Green was told, would likely give Polston license to believe she could harass, stalk and otherwise mess with the other females in his life…of which there were many.
About ten months ago, Green was cavorting with one in Vincennes and ended up a father for the third time about three and a half weeks before the stabbing incident.
According to the OP, the newest Green offspring is named Alexis Sanders, same last name as the woman Green was with at the restaurant, whether it was in the truck or in the restaurant.
It’s unclear if Anna Sanders is aware of Green’s cavorting, as she is reportedly from Vincennes and has largely been kept from exposure to the Illinois Green concubines, one of whom hails from as far away as Wayne County.
Fights and OPs
In March of 2010, Green was placed on administrative leave after he got into a physical altercation with Polston’s brother, Adam Polston, in Wabash County, and punched her brother in the face.
He was put back on the force at the Lawrence County sheriff’s department a few months later after the case was settled.
His job at the time remained tenuous, however, given that he had a misdemeanor on his record, and that for a violent act.
After working court security for a while, his hours were cut at the county, and he went to work in 2012 as a part-time officer for the city of Bridgeport. From this job, report after report reached Disclosure of Green stopping attractive (and sometimes not-so-attractive) females, and advising them that they could get out of their trouble with the law if they’d meet him at the park in Bridgeport later.
Some reportedly took him up on it; most did not.
Green has advised that he hangs on to Polston, despite the insane behavior, because he wants to keep his daughter around, but has never bothered to take up a Family case in any court in order to secure his paternal rights. Instead, he leaves it up to chance, and the whims of someone who’s obviously in need of a little parenting guidance, if her constant behavior is any indication.
A plenary order in the current OP case was entered on September 3 in Green’s favor and against Polston.
Other multiple OPs taken out against her from those in Green’s crowd, including his mother, his ex-wife Samantha, and a former girlfriend of Green’s over the years have all either been dismissed or have expired.
The investigation into the Vincennes incident, according to Chief Dusty Luking, remains ongoing.