Everyone Knows Where 2600 Painted Desert Run Is, Right? UH, No.

Fort Wayne Media has demonstrated time and time again a collective lack intelligence when it comes to local geography. 

Time nor space allows the Maven to list examples here, but from the examples below, local journalists have committed not one, but two, violations of storytelling and common sense.

First, by reading the stories from 3 different media sources, it would appear that those stories are simply a regurgitation of media press releases from law enforcement.

Second, in offering the law enforcement press releases as their own reporting and journalistic work, they neglect to answer a question any living-breathing listener/viewer/reader might ask....

JUST WHERE IN THE HELL IS 2600 PAINTED DESERT RUN?

Usually local media does a good job identifying where incidents take place in relationship to the city proper. The Maven always appreciates the inclusion of a Google map, or a description including main cross streets. Why? Remember Who What WHERE Why and How from high school journalism? Your listeners want to know "is that near me", "is that in my neighborhood".  Perhaps that's no longer taught at Ball State?

From WANE-15:

 From WPTAABC21Alive:

And from Fort Wayne's Journal Gazette:

So, to answer the question, 2600 Painted Desert Run is near I-69 and Leesburg Road, northwest of downtown. 

Here's the map viewers/readers should have seen.