The Press-Dispatch
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A-12 Wednesday, December 12, 2012 The Press-Dispatch Christmas in the park The heralding angel and three kings light displays are just two of many in the Christmas in the Park exhibit. It is open each night in Hornady Park from 6 to 9 p.m. each night and 6 to 10 p.m. on weekends. A $5 donation is suggested. Proceeds go to the Sam Taylor fund to provide grants for college students. A visit to a Family Planning Resource can help you plan for a healthy and happy family. Two Gibson County teens arrested in Petersburg early Sunday morning By Andy Heuring Two Gibson C ou n ty teens were arrested in Petersburg early Sunday morning after police stopped their car for no turn signal and failure to stop at a stop sign. Blake A. Powell, 18, of 8094 S. Angelia Dr., Fort Branch, was arrested on a charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. His passenger, Megan M. Mitchell, 18, of 622 Walnut St., Oakland City, was arrested on charges of intimidation, a class D felony, resisting law enforcement, a class A misdemeanor, illegal possession and minor consumption. Petersburg Patrolman Kyle Mills said he was on routine patrol at 1:13 a.m. when he noticed a vehicle stopping in the middle of the street and a male subject walking towards the car. He said the car failed to stop at Seventh and Branch Sts. and turned right without a signal. Mills said Powell failed field sobriety tests. Pike Count y Deput y Sheriff Dallas Killian assisted and talked with Blake's passenger Mitchell. He said Mitchell originally said they were on their way to a fight. While talking to Mitchell, he noticed the odor of alcohol. Killian offered her a portable breath test for alcohol; however, Mitchell said she smoked and couldn't blow through a tube. Deputy Killian said she then began to yell at him and after multiple warnings continued to yell obscenities. When police attempted to place her in handcuffs, she resisted and also would not get into the police car. While en route to the Pike County Jail, Mills said she told Deputy Killian next time she saw him she was going to beat him up and kill him. Police said she continued to be belligerent and refused to cooperate with the female jailer, so she was placed in a restraint chair. While in the restraint, she told the staff if she could get out of the chair she would slash them. Patrolman Mills said Blake tested positive for amphetamines. Two arrested for separate deer hunting incidents this week By Andy Heuring Two men were arrested in separate incidents involving deer hunting in Pike County. A Petersburg man was arrested on Saturday, December 8, on charges stemming from him taking five deer. Eddie Elliott, 69, of Petersburg was charged with the illegal taking of five white tailed deer, over bagging on antlered deer and failure to check in a deer within 48 hours. Conser vation Of f icer Trent Stinson said he got information Elliott had taken five deer. He said he questioned Elliott who admitted he had taken the deer. Stinson said he also found the deer in Elliott's freezer. A Department of Natural Resources news release stated Elliott cooperated with the investigation. Stinson said Elliott had a deer tag, but had not checked the deer in and had taken more what was allowed by his permits. According to the DNR release, "reimbursement for taking or possession of illegal deer can be $500 for the first violation and $1,000 for any subsequent violation." On Wednesday, an Evansville man was arrested on a charge he stole another person's deer from the Pike State Forest. Patrick DeWeese, 30, of Evansville, was arrested on a charge of theft, a class D felony and providing false information to a check station. Conser vation Of f icer Stinson said he received a call that a hunter's deer had been stolen from the Pike State Forest. He said the hunter was from Evansville and had killed a deer that morning. He then hung the deer from a tree at his campsite in Pike State Forest and went hunting again. When he returned to his campsite, his deer was gone. Stinson said he talked with the hunter and got a description of the deer, which had unusual antlers. He said the deer was an eight pointer. While Stinson was in the campground area, DeWeese came into the campground and had the deer in the back of his pickup. Stinson said he talked with DeWeese and when he saw the deer, he recognized it and confronted Deweese about it being stolen. DeWeese denied it and said he had killed it earlier in the day. According to a DNR release, DeWeese had checked the deer in at a check station claiming he had killed the deer. Stinson said DeWeese agreed to take him the next day to the site where he killed the deer. Stinson said there was no sign of a deer harvest at that site. 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