The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Front Wednesday, March 27, 2019 The Press-Dispatch By Andy Heuring Two out-of-state men were arrested at the same time early Saturday morn- ing when it was reported they were driving in sepa- rate vehicles north on High- way 61. A person following them told Pike County's 911 dispatcher the two vehicles were driving about 25 mph, they were all over the road and at times hanging out of the window. Adam W. Courtwright, 30, of Antlers, Okla., and Brent Janoe, 33, of Hugo, Okla., were both arrested by In- diana State Trooper C.J. Boeckman. He said he was in Winslow when the call came in about the trucks driving north on Highway 61, near State Forest Road (SR 364). Boeckman said he located them and they were speeding up and slowing down, with one guy hanging out the window. When he saw them, they both pulled over and one of the trucks went into the ditch between 400 S. and CR 300 E. Trooper Boeckman said he turned his emergency lights on and stopped to check on them. He smelled the odor alcohol on both and they admitted drinking. They were taken to the Pike County Jail, where they both tested 0.09 percent for blood alcohol content. The legal limit in Indiana is 0.08 percent. Trooper Boeckman said both were boilermakers working as contractors at IPL in Petersburg. They had been to a bar in Lynnville and were on their way back to where they were staying in Pike County. They were both prelim- inarily charged with oper- ating a vehicle while intox- icated. Tack oil tank set at Highway Dept. A new 6,000 gallon heated tank was set in place last week at the Pike Coun- ty Highway Department. Assistant Superintendent Josh Byrd said the heat- ed tank allows the Highway Dept. to keep the tack oil they use in their road patching machine hot. The county has two of these machines that spray a mix of fine gravel and tack oil to fill potholes and patch the roads. Byrd said this is much quicker than shoveling cold mix into the potholes by hand. It lasts longer and is much less expensive. He said they would get a shipment of heated tack oil in a semi-truck tank- er and keep it in the highway garage, but it would cool before they could use all of it. Then they would have to pump it into the oil distributor to heat it and then into the patching machines. Now they can keep the oil hot and just fill the patching machine tanks as they go out each day. By Andy Heuring An argument over not tak- ing a bag of trash led to the arrest of a Winslow man on a charge of intimidation with a deadly weapon. Sean Quentin Snodgrass, of 609 N. Main St., Winslow, was arrested at about 2:30 a.m. Friday. Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Buck Seger said he was sent to the former Fish Hut parking lot in Winslow, where he talked to Tesia Crumbaugh and Sierra Vin- cent. Crumbaugh told Depu- ty Seger she had made ar- rangements to move her be- longings out of Snodgrass' residence. According to Deputy Seger's report, Crumbaugh said while she was getting her things and putting them into Vincent's vehicle, Snodgrass yelled for her to take her trash with her. She said she yelled an obscenity back at him. She continued and said when she was getting in- to the vehicle, she heard the sound of a pistol "being racked." She told Deputy Seger, while she lived there, she had seen a pistol with a skull in the grip, and she thought he did it to scare her into taking the trash. Crumbaugh also said Snodgrass started throwing tubs of trash at the vehicle. Vincent told Deputy Seger as she started to drive away, she looked back and saw Snodgrass pull a pistol out of his pants and point it at them. Deputy Seger said both Crumbaugh and Vincent were still visibly upset. Seger then went to Snod- grass' residence and talk- ed with him. He initially de- nied pointing a gun at Crum- baugh and Vincent, but ad- mitted they had been in an argument about the trash as they were leaving. He said the pistol was in his bedroom the whole time. Deputy Seger then talked with Jacob Skelton, who was at the residence at the time of the incident. According to Seger's re- port, Skelton said he and Snodgrass were outside watching Crumbaugh get her stuff and Snodgrass got mad because she wouldn't take her trash with her. He said Snodgrass told him to go into the house and get his gun. Skelton said he did and gave it to Snod- grass, who then pulled the gun out and and cocked it. Crumbaugh then got into the truck and left. Deputy Seger said he then went in the house and asked Snodgrass if "he wanted to be honest about the inci- dent." In his report, Deputy Seger said Snodgrass then admitted he had pulled the gun to try to intimidate Crumbaugh into taking her trash. He was taken into custody on the Level 5 felony charge. Winslow man arrested on charge of intimidation with deadly weapon Two men following each other arrested for OVWI HODGES Continued from page 1 addition, family interviews have been filmed and sev- eral Dodgers-related inter- views are scheduled in the next few months with Vin Scully (former broadcast- er), Peter O'Malley (former owner) and Larry King (ce- lebrity). "We are very excited to have our film crew come out to Petersburg on March 28 to capture the various images surrounding Hodg- es' childhood and, of course, the famous mural," O'Malley said. "We would also love those in th e local commu- nity, with either a direct or indirect connection to Gil, to come out and share their sto- ries for the film." O'Malley added, "It is the hope of everyone associated with making this film to con- vince the Hall of Fame com- mittee, scheduled to vote on Hodges' induction in De- cember 2020, that Gil Hodg- es does indeed meet all of the requirements as a player both on and off the field for induction in Cooperstown." The film, which is expect- ed to be released initially in late 2019 as a short online documentary, is under the direction and production of David Naglieri, an Emmy Award winning documenta- ry filmmaker and television producer. PAVING Continued from page 1 CR 375 W. in Madison Twp., from Highway 56 to CR 400 N., 6,328 feet; CR 400 N. in Madison Twp., from CR 375 W. to CR 350 W., 806 feet; CR 350 W. in Madison Twp., from CR 400 N. to CR 350 N., 2,643 feet; CR 825 W. in Clay Twp., from Gibson Co. line to new black top, 6,258 feet. Both Petersburg and Pike County are required to have their contractor or supply contracts submitted to IN- DOT prior to July 1, 2019. Winslow was not so lucky. "It wasn't a very happy let- ter," said Winslow Clerk- Treasurer Stacy McCand- less of the letter from the In- diana Department of Trans- portation telling them their application was declined. Winslow did receive a grant in last August's ap- plication. McCandless said that paving work should start later this spring. Highway 257 in Pike County is scheduled to be closed during the day be- ginning Wednesday, April 3. The Indiana Department of Transportation said it will close between High- ways 56 and 64 for multiple pipe replacements. "Work will begin after school bus- es have run each day and is expected to be completed in time for school traffic to pass through," said INDOT spokesman Jason Tiller. Crews will be excavat- ing drainage structures across the roadway, replac- ing the old pipes and filling the pavement cuts in with gravel. The fill material will be compacted under normal traffic conditions. Crews will then come back with - in a few days to permanent- ly repair the pavement cuts. Depending upon weather conditions, this operation is expected to last until the end of the week. Rain could cause delays. Local traffic will have access up to the points of closure; however, through traffic should use the official detour using S.R. 56, S.R. 61, and S.R. 64. IN- DOT urges drivers to slow down and stay alert near crews. Hwy 257 to be closed beginning April 3 COUNCIL Continued from page 1 computers and software pur- chases at the County High- way garage. They agreed the purchas- es needed to be made. How- ever, they wanted to make the purchases from a Do- nations Fund in the county budget. Council President Greg Willis said he wasn't sure if they need to approve an ad- ditional appropriation. He thought that fund, which has held donations to the coun- ty for more than 10 years, could just be spent without an additional request. Councilmen said they thought the donations had been made when Blackburn Road had been paved sever- al years ago. Willis said the funds had been laying there for years and if they didn't use them, they probably would be lay- ing there another 10 or 15 years. Councilmen voted to table the computer purchase un- til the next meeting at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 9. Mike Goodpaster showed councilmen a comparison of other county assessor offic- es' staff. He listed counties with similar numbers of par- cels as Pike County and the number of full-time staff, and whether or not they con- tract their data collection. "I talked with several oth- er counties in the state, that are similar in population and number of parcels. They range from 10,000 in Mar- tin. They are half the size of Pike County due to Crane. They have twice the number of employees and they hire out all their data collection," said Goodpaster. He has requested two part-time positions for a da- ta collector and data entry position be combined into one full-time data collector position. He said this per- son would be the person go- ing out and collecting data on houses, property and oth- er buildings in Pike County. Councilman Elliott asked what it would cost to con- tract out the data collection. Goodpaster said he wasn't sure, but he thought it would be in the range of $70,000. He said having a full-time data collector would be con- siderably less expensive. Councilman Randy Har- ris asked Goodpaster if he got this position, would he be coming back to ask for more help. "I don't see that happen- ing," said Goodpaster. "So you had a unique op- portunity? " asked Harris. "Yes," said Goodpaster. He explained the data en- try position had been open for a while. Then at the end of last year, the data collec- tor position opened up. So this would allow him to com- bine the two positions with- out changing anyone else's positions. Councilman Willis ask what happens if they get be- hind with data collection. "I go out myself. I had to last year, much of the sum- mer and fall," said Goodpas- ter. "I feel like part-time is not proper for that office. You need someone full-time who knows what is going on. So I will make the motion to approve this," said Council- man Travis Troutman. His motion was approved by a 5 -0 vote. Councilmen Jon Craig and Todd Meadors were not at the meeting By Andy Heuring A series of Easter egg hunts are scheduled over the next few weeks. The Winslow hunt spon- sored by The House of Mer- cy Church is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, April 6 at Winslow Little League park. They will have food, games and prizes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Easter egg hunt will have more than 2,000 eggs with 30 prize eggs hidden among them. The hunt will be divided into age groups for children ages one to 12. A rain date of Saturday, April 13 has been set. The Petersburg Moose- sponsored Easter egg hunt is scheduled for 1 p.m Sat- urday, April 13 at Hornady Park. It will be divided into age groups of 0 -2, 3-5, 6 -8, 9 - 10 and special needs. The rain date is April 20. The Petersburg Little League has scheduled their first Easter egg hunt for 1 p.m. on April 10 at the Lit- tle League fields. They will have between 1,500 and 2,000 eggs for children up to 14 years old. The Otwell Easter egg hunt is set for noon on Sat- urday, April 13. It is being co-sponsored by the Otwell Community Center and Ot- well Miller Academy. The hunt will be rain or shine. If there is bad weather it will be moved inside the Com- munity Center. Area Easter egg hunts scheduled