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Jack’s Donuts, WISH team up for paralyzed IMPD officer

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Cops and donuts. The stereotype is played out in so many ways in movies and on TV. Now, WISH-TV is using cops and donuts to help raise money for severely injured police officers.

It all happens Wednesday, July 15. WISH TV will be live at Jack’s Donuts in Carmel, and all Jack’s locations will be collecting funds that day. Come have coffee with a cop and help support the Code One: Helping Heroes Fund, all at the same time.

The first project of the fund is to build IMPD Officer Santos Cortez and his family a handicap accessible home.

In June 2012, Officer Cortez was hit by a drunk driver. He was paralyzed as a result of the crash. After dozens of surgeries, Cortez is recovering at home – a cramped, three-bedroom apartment for the family of six.

Jack’s Donuts will have pre-packed boxes of donuts available outside the Carmel shop Wednesday morning. Thirty percent of each box will go to Code One, while supplies last. Jack’s Donuts is located at 516 Carmel Drive in Carmel.

Also available will be Indy Style Blend coffee. One-hundred percent of all sales from the Indy Style coffee sold outside will go to Code One.

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Inside Jack’s, we’ll have a can for people to donate and 25 percent of all sales in-store at the Carmel location from 5 a.m. -10 a.m. that morning will go to Code One as well. They’re also making a special Code One themed donut. One-hundred percent of the sales from the Code One themed donut will go to Code One

If you can’t make it to the Carmel location, there will be cans in each store for people to donate.

Make sure to watch Indy Style at 9 a.m. on July 20 – that’s when WISH-TV and Jack’s Donuts will do a check presentation for the Code One: Helping Heroes Fund.

If you miss out, you can still donate. Just click here.

The Indianapolis Police Foundation serves police officers in central Indiana with the goal to “protect and serve those who protect and serve.”

IPF has already raised $34,000 to build the home for Officer Cortez. The goal is to raise $200,000.