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MUNCIE — Both Phil Nichols and Jess Neal were arrested Thursday morning on federal arrest warrants, an FBI spokesperson confirmed to The Star Press just before 9 a.m.
FBI public affairs specialist Chris Bavender said both Nichols and Neal remain in custody, in Indianapolis. Both were arrested during simultaneous executions of warrants Thursday morning.
They are the latest arrests in a multi-year federal investigation into wrongdoing in the city of Muncie.
Phil Nichols has been a longtime leader in the Democratic Party in Muncie and Delaware County. He is a former Democrat Party chairman and a former city councilman. He also worked for many years as a Muncie firefighter.
He is the father of Craig Nichols, a former city building commissioner who was sentenced to two years in federal prison in 2019 after pleading guilty to wire fraud and money laundering.
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