The Press-Dispatch
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Police said Thompson then began banging his head on the win- dow trying to break it out. Chief Baumgart said he rolled the window down so Thompson couldn't break the window and or bang his head on it. But has he was driving away, Thompson started climbing out the win- dow while the car was mov- ing. Baumgart said he man- age to get the car stopped before Thompson dove out of the window on scene. He was taken to the ground by Sheriff's Sgt. Buck Seger. Thompson was placed in leg irons and eventually placed in Troop- er Chase Eaton's vehicle and transported to the Pike County Jail, with Seger in the backseat with him. calls to assist on Wednes- day night. They had a call that came in as a house fire in the Al- ford area, but that turned out to be a rubbish fire next to a house. It was quickly extin- guished, allowing firemen to assist with numerous other calls. He said they had sev- eral trees down and trees in power lines that were on fire. One on Spruce St. was on fire, and eventually the wire burned through the tree and the tree fell off of it. Elmore said there was an ambulance call to a house, but the ambulance was blocked by a fallen tree. Firemen were able to cut the tree up and get the road to the house open. Pike County Highway As- sistant Superintendent Josh Byrd said the county had between 40 and 50 trees to cut off of roads. They finally finished up on Friday on two trees that were in hot power lines that. "I think this is the most trees we have ever had to deal with," said Byrd. Randy and Cindy Jones, of CR 275 E, were like many others that lost several trees and had damage to their ga- rage and residence. They lost an awning and two trees fell on their garage. "I know it is one of the worst things you can do, but I stood at the window and watched the storm. I guess I was just mesmerized by it. I couldn't look away," said Cindy. Her patio furniture was blown over and around her yard, which was filled with downed limbs and trees. "I just spent all day yes- terday working in the yard getting it all picked up and mowed," said Jones. Several spots around the county were without power until 6 a.m. on Thursday. There was damage on Main St., Petersburg. The facade on the White Horse building blew off and landed on the sidewalk. Gary Evans and his son were picking it up minutes after the storm had cleared. He said what they were picking was definitely off his build- ing. "I just hope that across the street isn't my roof," said Evans. It wasn't. It turned out to be pieces of roof from Bath Bombs, Greene Chiroprac- tic and Mikels Graphics. Greene said he had a roof made of rubber sheets that were about a half-inch thick. "It just rolled it up like car- pet," he said. He and his father went up on the roof and thought they would just roll it back into place. "We couldn't budge it. That must have weighed 1,500 pounds." Byrd said the Otwell, Alford and Algiers area seemed to be hit the worst, but there was damage over most of the county Cassidy arrested on charges of strangulation and domestic battery By Andy Heuring A Petersburg man was ar- rested on charges of stran- gulation and domestic bat- tery after central dispatch received a report of domes- tic violence. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Baumgart said he was notified to look for a man on foot, who had long dark curly hair and was wearing a white basketball shorts and no shirt. When Baumgart turned on Whi- telock Ave. from CR 400 N., he saw a man, later identi- fied as Brian Cassidy, 23, of 4890 N. Park Lane, Dr., Pe- tersburg, who matched the description given. Baumgart stopped and talked with him. According to Baumgart's report, Cas- sidy said he and his wife were arguing and he left the apartment. Baumgart then went to the residence and talked with Joy Pomery. She said she and Cassidy were arguing and she shoved Cas- sidy. He then grabbed her and threw her on a bed, got on top of her and choked her. A witness, Patrick Adams, told Baumgart a similar sto- ry. Adams said he tried to get Cassidy off of Pomeroy, but couldn't. He said Pome- roy was coughing and mak- ing a gargling noise while being choked. Cassidy was taken in- to custody on charges of strangulation and domestic battery. Winslow receives Community Crossroads grant for paving streets By Andy Heuring Winslow Town Council met by a group phone call on Monday night briefly. They paid the bills and announced they received a grant from the Community Crossroads program through the Indi- ana Department of Trans- portation to pave streets. Winslow will receive a grant of $105,596 to pave streets in town. They will have to put up a match of 25 percent. The streets that will be paved are: • Third St., from Factory Ave. to its end, 948 ft.; • Lafayette St., from east St. north to Collins Ave., 1120 ft.; • Beardsley St., from Oak to Mariah St., 1,030 ft.; • Mill St., from Jefferson to Lafayette St., 809 ft.; • Hickory St., from Lafay- ette St. to end, 617 ft.; • Lafayette St., from Hick- ory to Bluff St., 530 ft. • Oak St., from Union St. to end, 1,291 ft. Councilmen thanked Clerk-Treasurer Stacy Mc- Candless for writing the grant. McCandless told the coun- cil they had to get bids from the work on the project sub- mitted by May 1. "We need to move quickly on this," said Council presi- dent Josh Popp. Councilman Debra Lamb said they would probably have a special meeting to deal with getting the bids. Council also said they wanted to get moving quick- ly on submitting anoth- er Community Crossroads grant application, which has to be turned in by July 1. Lamb said they should be talking to their neighbors to get their priorities ready for the paving application. Councilmen briefly dis- cussed a new salary ordi- nance. But Lamb said they were only supposed to be doing essential business in these meetings while the Governor's Stay-at-Home order is in place. "It isn't that the salary or- dinance isn't essential, it is just hard to have these meet- ings by phone." Councilmen voted 3-0 to table the sala- ry ordinances until a later meeting. They voted to approve the claims, which were $24,268.34 for water, $16,509.02 for wastewa- ter and $25,799.42 for the general fund, for a total of $ 84,636.26. In other business, they said the town's website will now allow people to request water bill adjustments, make payments arrangements and apply for pet license tags. Pike County Highway Assistant Superintendent Josh Byrd cuts up a large tree that fell across CR575 N. They had to wait until Friday to cut the tree because it had a live power line in it and the electric com- pany wasn't able to remove it until then. Byrd had to cut it into several pieces before Gradall operator Curt Russell could remove them. Damage to the front of the White Horse building on Main St. can be see in the daylight on Thursday.