A month after Justin Harling’s infant daughter died, police said he harassed a code enforcement officer on Jan. 13, 2020, outside a Munster Subway.
Now, prosecutors dropped that Level 6 felony confinement and misdemeanor intimidation case on June 18, saying they couldn’t prove it.
Harling, now 29, was acquitted in February for his 5-month-old Morgan Harling’s Dec. 12, 2019, abuse death.
According to a criminal affidavit, the code enforcement officer said she responded to his house weeks earlier after police executed a search warrant and found animal feces all over the house with uninhabitable living conditions.
He recognized her at the Subway, 822 Ridge Road. She confirmed she had been at his house. As he grew “angry,” he blocked her so she couldn’t get out of her vehicle or leave, she said. At one point, he appeared to “aggressively” reach into his pockets. She activated a “man down” emergency button.
As the woman lifted her radio to signal the cops, Harling pulled off.
Once the cops caught up with Harling back home, Kailani Strickland, Morgan’s mother, started yelling at the cops.
“He didn’t do anything!” she told them.
Harling refused to come off the front stoop but was eventually arrested.
mcolias@post-trib.com
