Jeremy Sweet was also charged with unlawful possession of a syringe and being a habitual offender, Bartholomew County Sheriff Matthew Myers said.
Her jacket was found in the water on Saturday, but the search had to be called off for the second night in a row because it was too dark. A diver found the body of Emma Sweet on Sunday. "Although my heart goes out to the family and friends, there's a bit of comfort knowing that we have her now," Myers said, reported.
"This not about Jeremy Sweet today. This is about Emma and us locating this beautiful child and being able to give her back to her family."WTTV in Indianapolis . He told one that suggested Emma was with him went his truck got submerged. There was an another story on Saturday, which suggested that both him and his daughter were in the water, authorities said. "When we first made contact with him [Friday] morning it was that he had dropped Emma off at Casey's. Right after that he says she was on the hood of the car of his vehicle and her coat was wet, so he took the coat off and that's where she got swept away," Sheriff Matt Myers said Saturday afternoon."There is really three stories now and none of them match."Jeremy Sweet, the father of the 2-year-old whose body was discovered in the White River on Sunday, told authorities multiple stories about the events leading to the child going missing, Bartholomew County Sheriff Matthew Myers said. In this photo sits the White River in front of the silhouetted Indianapolis skyline on September 21, 2020 in Indianapolis, Indiana.Jeremy Sweet has been held without bond in the Bartholomew County Jail since Monday after being hospitalized for hypothermia and frostbite following his discovery Friday morning in his submerged truck by duck hunters. Sweet and his daughter, Emma, were last seen together in his pickup Nov. 24 and were reported missing by family members the following day. Emma was morning in the river about 2.5 miles downstream from where the truck was found. Results of an autopsy on her are not expected for four to six weeks.