A 42-year-old Indianapolis man is facing felony charges after Hancock County sheriff's deputies say he threatened to shoot a coworker and was later found sitting in his vehicle outside a Buck Creek Township warehouse with a loaded gun on the passenger seat. Tang Ok was arrested following the August 6 incident and now faces charges including armed criminal confinement and two counts of felony intimidation.
Deputies were called to the warehouse in the 4200 block of North County Road 700 West after a report that an employee was threatening to shoot another employee, according to a probable cause affidavit cited by The Daily Reporter. When deputies arrived, they found Ok sitting inside his vehicle with the windows rolled up and fogged. They used a speaker box to announce commands before removing him from the vehicle and handcuffing him.
Inside the car, officers found a firearm on the passenger seat, loaded with five bullets and one round already in the chamber, per the newspaper's report. They also collected a 50-count box of full-metal-jacket bullets that was missing one round, along with an open can of beer and a 24-pack of beer. Deputies believed, per the affidavit, that Ok had fired at least one shot while waiting outside the warehouse, and officers reported finding a single spent .380-caliber shell casing beside the driver's door of his SUV.
A Whispered Threat and a Suspected Affair
According to the affidavit, Ok worked at the warehouse on the first shift while one of the men he threatened, identified in court records as victim 2, worked there as well. Ok reportedly believed victim 2 was having an affair with another warehouse worker, identified as victim 1 — an allegation victim 2 denied to investigators, per the affidavit. Ok is accused of telling victim 1 he would kill her, and victim 1 told deputies he was often physically and verbally abusive toward her, according to the same account.
Victim 2 told deputies that Ok whispered a threat that he would kill him and prevent him from leaving, and said he believed Ok was going to shoot him, the affidavit states. The newspaper's report also notes that victim 2 had asked to stop receiving calls from Ok while he was working, and that Ok allegedly pointed a gun at victim 1 during a recent drive together. Ok had been asked to leave the property because his shift had ended, but the report indicates he returned to the warehouse a second time, entering after security admitted him because he was an employee there.
Charges and Court Proceedings
Ok was charged with Level 3 felony criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, along with Level 5 felony intimidation involving the use of a deadly weapon and Level 6 felony intimidation involving a threat to commit a forcible felony. Under Indiana law, a Level 3 felony conviction carries a state prison sentence of 3 to 16 years with an advisory term of 9 years and fines up to $10,000, according to the Gibson Law Office. The same source notes that a Level 5 felony carries 1 to 6 years in prison with an advisory term of 3 years, while a Level 6 felony carries 6 months to 2.5 years, each with fines up to $10,000.
The felony intimidation charges stem from Indiana Code § 35-45-2-1, which elevates an intimidation charge from a misdemeanor to a Level 5 or Level 6 felony when the threat involves a deadly weapon or a forcible felony, per Justia Law. Ok also recorded a .122 breath-test result, per the report.
Bond, Home Detention and a Judge on His Way Out
Judge D.J. Davis, presiding over the case in Hancock Superior Court 1, set Ok's cash bond at $15,000 and ordered pretrial home detention if that bond was met. Ok was also placed under a no-contact order and told the court he wanted to obtain his own counsel. Davis has served on the Hancock Superior Court 1 bench since January 2021, a docket that includes major felony criminal cases, domestic relations matters and juvenile delinquencies, according to The Indiana Lawyer.
Davis is serving out the remainder of his term after losing his May 2026 reelection bid, when challenger Janet Miles Manship defeated him in the Republican primary by a vote of 4,603 to 3,327, the newspaper reported at the time. Ok is due back in court for a pretrial conference on August 26.
A Warehouse Corridor With a Recent History
The warehouse sits along North County Road 700 West in a stretch of western Hancock County that has grown into a major logistics corridor near Interstate 70 and Mount Comfort Road, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation. The same rural corridor has seen other serious public safety incidents in recent months: in May, a fatal hit-and-run crash near the Marion-Hancock county line shut down the roadway during a multi-agency response, and in July, Hancock County deputies investigated a fatal shooting on West County Road 350 North that ended with a suspect taken into custody, as previously reported by Hoodline.
The Hancock County Sheriff's Office, which responded to the warehouse call, is led by Sheriff Brad Burkhart, who is set to retire at the end of 2026 after two terms in office. Ok was booked at the Hancock County Jail in Greenfield, a 446-bed facility that opened in May 2022 and is staffed by 50 full-time custody personnel, according to the Hancock County government. It remains unclear whether Ok has posted bond or entered home detention, and whether the warehouse has since made changes to its workplace security procedures.
