The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Front Wednesday, November 21, 2018 The Press-Dispatch CHARGES Continued from page 1 Coats for CASA Earl Townsend and Kelli Gordon, Director of Pike County's Court Appointed Special Advocates, dis- play 18 coats purchased by CASA for area children in CASA. Townsend said they raised money for the coats by selling snow cones at the Pike County 4-H Fair and Buffalo Trace Festival. Gordon said there are about 60 children in Pike County CASA, but 18 of them needed winter coats. She said they are seeking sponsors to help with the project next year so they can expand it. PARADES Continued from page 1 ond St. Entries are asked to fill out an entry form, found on page A2, which can be picked up at City Hall by Friday, November 30. En- tries will be accepted the day of the parade, but put at the back of the parade. Priz- es of $100, $50 and $25 will be given for the top three en- tries. Each entry will be an- nounced and judged at the review stand. Santa will be in the parade and then he will be available to see children at the corner of Seventh and Main sts. in the Santa House. The hours of the Santa House are Dec. 1 from 3:30 to 5:50 p.m.; then from 2 to 4 p.m. on Dec. 2, 8, 9 and 16. HOLLY WALK IS DECEMBER 8 Petersburg Annual Holly Walk is set for Saturday, De- cember 8. The event is spon- sored by the Discover Down- town Petersburg organiza- tion. All civic groups, boost- er clubs, churches, school groups and other organiza- tions are invited to partici- pate during the event with entertainment and/or fund- raising events. Contact Dee- na Doerner at The Ole Flow- er Shoppe or Marge Leavitt at Marge's Hallmark. More details of the event will fol- low in next week's edition. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGERS Pike/Gibson Salvation Army is in need of bell ring- er volunteers in Petersburg. If you would like to ring, contact Cal Biddle at 812- 582-2385. Times are avail- able from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Petersburg Dollar General on Fridays and Saturdays, November 22 through De- cember 22. Also, you can ring at Petersburg Hard- ware from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Fridays and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. All money raised stays in Gibson and Pike counties. The Prince- ton Corps. is located at 202 S. Gibson St., Princeton, and serves as the headquarter for both counties. "Utility and rent bills were paid through Salvation Ar- my to keep people in their homes, and emergency housing and clothing were provided. Hundreds of nu- tritious meals were served each week, especially when children were out of school. Countless boys and girls are able to celebrate Christmas through the Salvation Ar- my Toy Shop. Remember, it was the Salvation Army who came early and stayed late during the Petersburg Tornado," said bell ringing chairman Cal Biddle. "They helped us during our time of need. Volunteer at least a couple of hours to help Pike Co. people in need. Many people ring for two hours at a time. Some like to ring with a friend. Some churches and school groups take an entire day," said Biddle. CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Volunteers are needed for Christmas in the Park to greet guests, bring candy to pass out and collect dona- tions. If interested, call Jim Gidcumb at 812-582-1657. dent about three weeks ago. Deputy Seger said he knew there was a warrant out for Schaefer for resisting law en- forcement so he attempted to place him in handcuffs. According to Seger, Schae- fer turned toward him, pushed him away and ran to his vehicle. Seger attempted to open Schaefer's vehicle door, but said Schaefer sped away quickly, nearly running over Seger's leg and foot. Seger then got into his patrol car and pursued him east on CR 200 S., with his lights and siren on, at a high rate of speed, cresting hills in the mid- dle of the road. Schaefer turned onto Black Run Lane and then ran off the east side of the road, hitting a tree, ac- cording to Seger. He got out of his vehicle and fled on foot, running around a shed. Deputy Seger said he yelled repeatedly for Schaefer to stop and pursued him on foot. Schaefer contin- ued on foot, running toward a residence at 1929 S. Black Run Rd., Winslow. Seger said he was gaining on Schaefer until he fell crossing a ditch. Seger said Schaefer ran and jumped into a vehi- cle at the front of the resi- dence. Seger caught up to him, opened the door of the vehicle and tazed him. He said the tazer momentarily stopped Schaefer, "but quick- ly quit working." Deputy Seger, who weighs about 150 pounds, pulled Schaefer, who is about 6'2" 240, to the ground and got on top of him, attempting to put handcuffs on him, but Schaefer pushed him off and started to run. Seger said he grabbed for Schaefer but Schaefer's jacket came off and got away. Schaefer then ran into the residence and Deputy Seger followed him, but fell near the steps of the residence. He changed out his tazer cartridge. Once inside the residence, Deputy Seger said he saw Jessie Hildebrand standing in the kitchen with her young son and Schaefer in a door- way between the kitchen and living room. Seger said he ordered Schaefer to get on the floor but he refused and started toward Seger in an aggres- sive manner. Seger shot him with a tazer again, but it was ineffective and Schaefer said "Now what, muther? " Deputy Seger said he was backing up to get into a saf- er position as Schaefer ran at him. He fell when Schaefer ran into him and then fled the residence. Schaefer jumped into Hildebrand's vehicle. Deputy Seger ran outside to pursue him, but Phillips, who had crashed into the ditch on Cato-Winslow Road, was outside. Seger said he asked Phil- lips if he knew Schaefer and Phillips initially said he had never met him prior to Schae- fer showing up at the scene and trying to help him out of the ditch. Phillips then changed his story and said he at been at Hildebrand's house hanging out in the garage with Schae- fer. Phillips then asked if he could get someone to pull him out of the ditch so he could get to work. However, Phillips later said he couldn't find the key to the vehicle, so he would just leave it there. Pike County Chief Depu- ty Kent Johnson went to the crash scene. Once there, he saw a blue draw string bag near a fence post just east of the accident scene. Chief Deputy Johnson said in the bag he found a black box with two clear plastic baggies that had marijuana in them. He also found a glass smoking pipe with black res- idue in it that field tested for marijuana. Another plastic bag corner had a white pow- der that field tested positive for meth and a second glass pipe with a residue that test- ed positive for meth. The oth- er items were a green mar- ijuana grinder and a set of keys to a Ford Explorer that activated Phillips Ford Ex- plorer. Deputy Seger, still at the Hildebrand residence, said once the scene was secured, he verified there were juve- nile children living in the res- idence. Seger said Hildebrand told him Schaefer had arrived at her residence the night be- fore and stayed in the shed most of the night. She said she had just gotten up to get her kids ready for school when Schaefer and Deputy Seger ran into the house. She said she didn't know what was going on and her kids were upset. While talking with Hil- debrand, Deputy Seger said he noticed what looked like a syringe in her pocket. He took the syringe and asked her about it. He said she be- gan crying and said she saw it in her house and freaked out, and didn't know what to do with it and she didn't want the police to find it. Deputy Seger said police did a search of Hildebrand's residence and found numer- ous drug-related items, in- cluding a glass smoking pipe with residue in it on a bed- room dresser; a one hitter pipe and what was believed to be a synthetic marijuana; a black makeup bag with a spoon and smoking pipe con- taining a black burned resi- due and a bag of marijuana. In the bedroom, they also located a spoon with a resi- due and cotton swab the field tested positive for meth. Pike County Sheriff Jer- emy Britton then notified Seger he had located Hil- debrand's vehicle in which Schaefer had fled her house. It had been parked near Lakewood Acres and the keys were gone. It still had two Taser projectiles in it. About a half-mile from that vehicle, Sandra Willis report- ed her 2009 white Ford 150 pickup had been stolen. As of Tuesday afternoon, that vehicle had not been lo- cated. Police are asking if anyone sees Schaefer to call 812-354- 6024 to report him. Schaefer is already want- ed on a warrant for resist- ing law enforcement from an incident about three weeks ago. Police are now seeking charges of: resisting law en- forcement with a vehicle, re- sisting law enforcement, auto theft, battery on a public safe- ty official, intimidation, visit- ing a common nuisance and possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon. Hildebrand was arrest- ed on preliminary charges of possession of meth less than 5 grams, possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia, maintaining a common nuisance, neglect of a dependent and unlaw- ful possession of a syringe. Police have also requested charges against Phillips of possession of meth less than 5 grams, possession of mar- ijuana, possession of para- phernalia, visiting a com- mon nuisance and obstruc- tion of justice. Chief Deputy Kent John- son said the status of the re- lationship between Hildeb- rand and Schaefer is "un- clear to us." SANTA HOUSE HOURS: Dec. 1 ����������� 3:30-5:30 p.m. Dec. 2 ������������������������ 2-4 p.m. Dec. 8 ����������������������� 2-4 p.m. Dec. 9 ����������������������� 2-4 p.m. Dec. 16 ��������������������� 2-4 p.m. SANTA HOUSE • PARADE • FUN FOR ALL Discover Downtown Petersburg SANTA HOUSE CHRISTMAS PARADE Special thanks to our sponsors: Discover Downtown Petersburg City of Petersburg Deno's Sturdi Built Buildings Willis & Company GE Tree Service Onyett Fabricators Pike County Public Library Amber Manor Care Center Petersburg Subway Glezen Revival Center Pike County Chamber of Commerce Parsifal Corporation Mikels Graphics Corner of 7th and Main streets SATURDAY, DEC. 1 AT 3 P.M. • LINE UP AT 2 P.M. EST ENTRY PRIZES: First place $100 Second place $50 ird place $25 DIRECTORS: Jo Hadley and Kelly Cook PARADE LINE UP LOCATIONS: Walnut Street in front of OPG and 8th Street between the United Methodist Church and Catholic Church� PARADE ROUTE: State Road 61 from Walnut Street to Main Street to 2nd Street and left onto Walnut Street� JUDGES REVIEWING STAND/ INTRODUCTIONS: Main Street in front of Petersburg City Hall Organization/Individual Name: ������������������������������������������������������������������ Contact Name: ��������������������������������������������� Phone #: ������������������������� Contact Address: ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Contact Email: �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Brief Description: ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ����Non-Commercial Float ����Commercial/Business Float ����Historical Float ����Antique Tractors ����Antique Cars/Trucks ����Walking/Marching Unit ����Motorcycles CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING AT 5 P.M. ON DEC. 1 PARADE ENTRIES WELCOME • DEADLINE NOV. 30 Please return completed parade entries by Nov� 30� Drop off your application at City Hall at 704 E� Main Street, Petersburg� Entries will be taken the day of the parade but will be placed at the end of the parade line up� Please have respectful and well- maintained entries� For more information, call 812-582-0425 or 812-766-9830� P r o ud l y P r es e n ted B y CHRISTMAS Plan to spend your day on Main Street in Petersburg! Enjoy Christmas shopping, Christmas music, a visit with Santa, great food, fellowship and watch the parade� On Dec� 1, 7th Street, between Main and Walnut streets, will be the center of activities and will be closed to traffic� Enjoy a day of holiday activities at our Santa House, including soup, chicken and dumplings, hot chocolate, coffee, kettle corn, and more� Don't miss a minute of the holiday fun! Stick around for Petersburg's official Christmas tree lighting at 5 p�m� them. Klipsch inquired about the junior firefighters and El- more said there were six ju- niors and four were very ac- tive. He said it was a very good feeder program for the department. Under street and sewer up- dates, Ross Elmore said their repair work had been going well and that the lift station at the school was awaiting flang- es, but would be complete be- fore the next meeting. Elmore reported signs were now up on 9th and 10th streets. There were some well field issues taken care of and "not too many leaks" to re- pair. According to Elmore, four radios had to be replaced be- cause the new license chang- es the signal utilized from UHF to VHF. He said the da- ta is now coming from the 57 north tower and that "every- thing is working real good." They are still working on feedback from the emergen- cy generator. FUTURE PAVING The Petersburg Commu- nity Crossings Matching Grant is $269,222, of which the city's match is $ 67,305. Ten streets will be paved, in- cluding Lakeview Drive, Pop- lar, 15th, 3rd, Nichols, 5th, 16th, 4th, 12th and Sycamore. Lakeview Drive, Nichols Av- enue and 16th Street will be complete, while the others will be partial. Poplar is to be paved from 7th Street to 12th Street. Third Street is from Main street to Sycamore Street and Fifth Street is from the rail- road tracks to Spruce Street. Fourth Street is from the rail- road tracks to High Street, 12th Street is from Main Street to Spruce Street and Sycamore is from 5th street to 9th street. Klipsch said Vectren is coming back to put in new gas lines and will be tearing up a lot of streets. He said the city wanted to pave in areas where Vectren has already worked, so the city won't have the new streets dug up. OLD BUSINESS The city's demolition of a trailer on 5th Street is com- plete, according to Klipsch, who advised the council that they would place a lien on the property and that the city did not own the proper- ty. A delinquent tax sale will be the process for the proper- ty. The city is demolishing a condemned house on 18th St., which is now owned by the city. Klipsch said it is cheap- er for the city to do the de- molition work, which usually costs around $ 6,000 or more. He reported that Code En- forcement officer Kyle Mills was in training and that he had been working on aban- doned vehicles and unsafe buildings. There was a discus- sion about the seven hous- es selected to be renovat- ed through Indiana Hous- ing. Klipsch said there was $ 300,000 available, but that $150,000 would be expended on the seven houses. The con- tractor bidding was down to three companies at this point, according to information pro- vided to Klipsch. Water and sewer write- offs were concluded under new business in the Water Company and Board of Pub- lic Works and Safety meet- ings. One delinquent water bill for more than $ 900 was an unusual situation, accord- ing to Klipsch. A renter, who is the water company cus- tomer, moved out, forfeiting the deposit, but leaving the landlord with the remainder. Clerk-Treasurer Tammy Sel- by said the city would have to take legal action if the rent- er was available, but then it would fall back on the land- lord. The bill was $ 302 water and $ 633 sewer, and since the leak was inside, there is no sewer relief. The situa- tion becomes a timing prob- lem because of when the rent- er moves, how long the leak persists and when the bill is mailed. Concerning the write-offs, Selby said, "Many of those on the list have been paid. The city does the write-off annu- ally on noncollectable water and sewer billings." There was a brief discus- sion by Klipsch and Melhis- er centered on ordinances the county does not have re- garding buildings and blight. The council meeting was ad- journed at 7:15 p.m. and then the council went into an exec- utive session. COUNCIL Continued from page 1 Bruce Phillips Joseph Shaefer Jessie Hildebrand