Angela Ganote

FOX59 Morning News Anchor, 6-time Emmy award winner, wife, mom to Ashlyn and Brock, truth teller, justice seeker, picture taker.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@BWSchank Thank you!!

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@JimOBrienWX @FOX59 That is amazing!!!

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

Thank you to everyone who reached out for this story today. I didn’t want to report on it until I had more confirmed by police. Now I can.

A man is back in jail after poking a little 6-year-old girl with a sharp object at a grocery store in Anderson. It’s the same man who went to prison for attacking a child at another grocery store back in 2015.

This latest attack happened at 9:15AM this morning at 1800 N Scatterfield Road.

Anderson Police say preliminary information indicates 40-year-old William Rothel approached a shopping cart and attacked the girl by taking what some describe as a needle and poking her in the arm.

Rothel took off from the scene but witnesses identified his vehicle and deputies with the Madison County
Sheriff's Department located it near Broadway Street and School Street and took him into custody.

We have covered Rothel before.
He was sentenced in 2017 to 12 years in prison, followed by two years of home detention and two years of probation for a similar crime.

Rothel attacked an 8-year-old boy at another grocery store by grabbing him by the neck, had his arm around him and a screwdriver up against his throat for 2 minutes before being rescued.

One woman who wanted to remain anonymous told me the community is outraged, “How long will he continue getting out before a child loses their life at the hands of this monster if nothing is done?”

He was released from prison in December.

He has to register as a sex offender due to kidnapping and confining the eight-year-old.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@MikeNearIndy @partyrocker42O Exactly. And that is why I called him trying to talk to him. You get it

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

Anyone following, I just called his office and talked with Angel the receptionist. She checked and Mr. Burns was not available to speak to me. I left him a voicemail with my cell phone number to see if he wants to talk. I will let you know if he does. LOL so weird!!!

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

Why are you calling me Angie? Aren't you a local attorney and don't you have any clients to help or do you just sit on X all day coming after people? So weird. IF you know of ANY gang of criminals that have been charged that I have not covered please share and it will be my next story. I am going to call your office. I hope you pick up. I don't whine. But I do like to talk.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

A Marion County judge sentenced Krystal Scott to 1 year in jail today. But with 150 days already served and 150 days of good time she has 65 left but with more good time that will be 33 days. Make sense ?

After her remaining 33 days in the Marion County Jail, she will then go back to federal prison for violating probation.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

I have been getting several emails asking me to update the animal abuse case against Krystal Scott who is from Kokomo, but most recently charged in Marion County.

Scott is set to be sentenced today at 1:30 and we will update you on what the judge decides is her punishment.

She entered into a plea deal in Marion County in May. She is admitting to one count of animal cruelty.

Scott was on federal probation at the time of the new charges from last year when she was found with more than a dozen dogs in a Uhaul in small crates with no food or water.

Once IMPD got a search warrant they found parts of dead animals, bones, pelts and hides. Witnesses at a homeless camp where Scott was living also told investigators Scott and another woman injected a dog with insulin trying to kill it and when that didn't work they both wrapped a metal rope around its neck and strangled it. He also claimed the dog was then skinned and its head removed.

Scott spent 30 months in federal prison for animal crushing before last year's abuse. She was not supposed to have any contact with animals.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

I just got off the phone with one of the two good Samaritans that saved a man’s life in Hendricks County today.

Travis Lawson and his brother-in-law Josh Day were on their way to work at about 8AM when they came across a man waving them down and injured.

I’m not going to go into the ghastly details but the man had crashed his motorcycle and needed a tourniquet to save his life immediately.

Travis and Josh sprang into action. Josh called 911 while the man said, “Please save my life.”

Travis took off his shirt and made it into a tourniquet to stop the massive bleeding.

The motorcyclist crashed near CR 800 N and CR 400 W in between North Salem and Lizton.

The men said they are shaken up but glad they could help. Neither had ever tied a tourniquet and typically Travis gets queasy at the sight of blood.

Last check the motorcyclist was in critical condition as doctors worked to save part of his leg.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@villenuv27 @AHardwickWx @JimOBrienWX @FOX59 @SierraHigniteTV True!

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@KillingTime2024 Legit .

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

New information regarding the Noblesville and Indianapolis area doctor facing serious allegations as the Attorney General's Office says 22 of his patients died.

Dr. Napoleon Maminta will go before the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana in the coming weeks. It was set for the end of July, but I talked with Dr. Mamita today and he told me the hearing is now moved to August.

Before I tell you what he told me I want to detail a few allegations from the Office of the Indiana Attorney General if you are just reading my reporting for the first time.

According to their complaint Maminta faces 31 charges including:

Professional incompetence
Failure to Exercise Reasonable Care
Unfit to Practice

The osteopathic physician is accused prescribing what is known as the "Holy Trinity" to several patients who died. The Holy Trinity is a drug combination that includes an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and skeletal muscle relaxants.

The investigation found that between January 2017 and January 202 Maminta wrote 120 prescriptions on average every day.

The AG wants action taken against his license that is still active. They said in their filing doctor Maminta did not answer to several subpoenas starting in January of 2025. However, Dr. Maminta told me that he is now talking wit the AG’s office and the hearing has been moved to August.

Maminta said he was in shock and didn’t know what to say. He said he is a man of character and only ever wanted to help people. Back in 2017 he left his practice to start his own private service to help people. He says he had about 200 to 250 patients who paid him $108 a month for basically anything they needed. Everyone had his cell phone, and they could just call for advice, for healthcare questions, he said he was not even a pain doctor.

He has been told there is no hope for him keeping his medical license, but he wants to try. He said right now he doesn't even have a lawyer and is financially ruined.

What happened? He blamed spending too much time with each patient wanting to help change their life.
He said he doesn't want his DEA license back and doesn't understand why this is coming up now when he has not been prescribing meds for years. He still makes house calls and does telehealth.

He wants people to come forward to tell the good things he has done in the past 30 years. He says he is a good doctor.

I have also learned of a civil suit involving one of Dr. Maminta’s patients. A 38-year-old woman died in March or 2022 from an overdose. Her family is suing Dr. Maminta, Walgreens and Lee Pharmacy.

They claim Dr. Maminta was negligent by prescribing her multiple drug cocktails of extremely addictive mediations and failing to monitor her. They accuse the pharmacies of negligence for “falling below the standard of care by failing to competently perform drug regimen reviews (including properly accessing INSPECT), by failing to confirm whether there was a legitimate medical purpose for the quantities and combinations of the drugs prescribed, and by failing to adhere to the Pharmacy Defendants’ Good Faith Dispensing Policies.”

I will update you as I get new detail

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@POP_AJOE @JimOBrienWX @FOX59 @SierraHigniteTV @AHardwickWx lol

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@T2Ohrd_blvd It took 30 seconds to call. Could be a few minute conversation for me to try to understand the who, what and why. I am addicted to finding truth and why people do what they do.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@partyrocker42O You clearly have not been following.....

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@BrianEmbrey1 Preach! Maybe I will start calling him Timmy Burns! haha

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

Why are you calling me Angie? Aren't you a local attorney and don't you have any clients to help or do you just sit on X all day coming after people? So weird. IF you know of ANY gang of criminals that have been charged that I have not covered please share and it will be my next story. I am going to call your office. I hope you pick up. I don't whine. But I do like to talk.

[timeburns @timeburns1]

@indytrog 1) Love that you believe everything this DOJ does. It's cute
2) If you think Angie would be covering a white gang of criminals, then you're sillier than I thought.
3) Her whining -immediately- shows exactly why she is focusing on this.
4) 90% your whining is cuz you're the same

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@AHardwickWx @JimOBrienWX @FOX59 @SierraHigniteTV Amber I thought you were on my side!!

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

First... I really need an update on what that term now means. HUH?

[Jim O'Brien @JimOBrienWX]

If you raw dog grape-nuts without sugar...you may be a serial killer! Looking at you @angelaganote

@fox59 @sierrahignitetv @ahardwickwx

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

I have been getting several emails asking me to update the animal abuse case against Krystal Scott who is from Kokomo, but most recently charged in Marion County.

Scott is set to be sentenced today at 1:30 and we will update you on what the judge decides is her punishment.

She entered into a plea deal in Marion County in May. She is admitting to one count of animal cruelty.

Scott was on federal probation at the time of the new charges from last year when she was found with more than a dozen dogs in a Uhaul in small crates with no food or water.

Once IMPD got a search warrant they found parts of dead animals, bones, pelts and hides. Witnesses at a homeless camp where Scott was living also told investigators Scott and another woman injected a dog with insulin trying to kill it and when that didn't work they both wrapped a metal rope around its neck and strangled it. He also claimed the dog was then skinned and its head removed.

Scott spent 30 months in federal prison for animal crushing before last year's abuse. She was not supposed to have any contact with animals.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

@BHartIndy63 Thank you! We need more people to stand up for good journalists working hard to cover ALL news or as much as we possibly can especially when we are talking about hardcore violence and extortion.

[Angela Ganote @angelaganote]

UGH I hope every demo. A gang accused of murder, kidnappings, extortion, massive drug sales, using our interstates? And right here in INDY! Are you suggesting I should NOT report this?

[timeburns @timeburns1]

Angie does like to appeal to a certain demo