Jasper Post Welcomes Two New Probationary Troopers From 89th ISP Academy

Two former Jasper Police officers with deep roots in Dubois County have traded city patrol for Indiana State Police gray, joining the Jasper Post after graduating from the 89th Indiana State Police Lateral Academy on March 19.

Trooper Nicholas Goller and Trooper Elijah Mundy were two of seven probationary troopers who completed the 89th lateral academy. Both had previously served with the Jasper Police Department before making the move to ISP. They will now spend three months in a field training period alongside veteran troopers before receiving an ISP patrol vehicle and beginning solo patrol.

Goller, a 2015 graduate of Northeast Dubois High School, built a career path that took him from running his own landscaping company to law enforcement. He was hired by the Jasper Police Department in 2022 and attended the Southwest Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, accumulating 3.5 years of experience on the Jasper force before his ISP appointment. He lives in Dubois County with his wife and children.

Mundy graduated from Jasper High School in 2010 and later served in the Marine Corps as a Field Radio Operator, including a deployment to Afghanistan from September 2012 to May 2013. After leaving the military, he worked at Jasper Engines and Transmissions before joining the Jasper Police Department and graduating from the basic police academy in 2019. He lives in Dubois County with his wife.

The Jasper Post received its previous pair of new troopers just four months earlier, when Trooper Aaron Guzman and Trooper Dakota Hatton were assigned following the 88th lateral academy graduation on November 6, 2025. That class of 14 completed more than 1,200 hours of structured instruction covering criminal law, traffic law, crash investigation, emergency vehicle operations, self-defense, first responder training, and scenario-based field exercises. Guzman, an Army veteran with a 2016 combat deployment to Afghanistan and five years as a patrolman in Washington, Indiana, and Hatton, an Army National Guard Military Police Officer who served at Guantanamo Bay and spent four years on the Washington Police Department, both arrived with significant experience before their ISP appointment.

With Goller and Mundy now on board, the Jasper Post has added four probationary troopers in less than six months, each bringing prior law enforcement experience from the region they will continue to serve.