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James Capozella photo Burkhart charged with level 5 and 6 felonies A lengthy Saturday after- noon pursuit of a motorcy- cle from Winslow into War- rick County, after a domes- tic incident, resulted in level 5 and 6 charges against Er- ic Burkhart, 19, of 2909 N. SR 57, Petersburg. A call to dispatch from Amanda Gail Wood, of 2602 E. State Road 364, Winslow, referenced a 19 -year-old striking an 11-year-old and threatening the family with a knife. Pike County Sheriff Dep- uty Brad Jenkins, along with State Trooper John Davis, re- sponded to the call, but the subject had left the scene and was hiding in the woods, ac- cording to the report. A fter a search of the area, Depu- ty Jenkins thought to travel CR 475 S. toward Oakland City and met a motorcycle heading east, with a driver matching the description of Burkhart. The driver turned and saw Deputy Jenkins with lights and siren on, but re- fused to stop. Burkhart went south on SR 61 and then left onto SR 364, all the while he was looking back, but refusing to stop. At Pike State Forest, Bur- khart turned to go down to the shelterhouse and then turned to go back, and went around two conservation of- ficers and back to SR 61. He went south through the SR 64 junction without stop- ping. He proceeded south past Spurgeon and into Lyn- nville in Warrick County be- fore turning east on SR 64. He then exited at Holland, traveling north on SR 161 and then east on CR 1150 to a dead end, where he ditched the motorcycle. A K-9 was re- quested from Dubois Coun- ty. Dog handler Deputy Cody Bird then located Burkhart hiding in a cornfield. Burkhart was transported to the Pike County Jail by Pe- tersburg Officer Kyle Mills. Jenkins charged Burkhart with resisting law enforce- ment with a vehicle, a level 6 felony, and Trooper Davis brought charges of intimida- tion with a deadly weapon/ domestic battery (bodily in- jury to a minor), a level 5 fel- ony. Jones arrested for domestic battery By James Capozella A call to dispatch 45 min- utes before midnight on Au- gust 6 resulted in the arrest of Terry E. Jones, 58, of 2787 E. Doane Ln., Petersburg, for domestic battery. Pike County Sheriff's Deputy Jar- ed Simmons and Sgt. Buck Seger arrived at Doane Ln. at approximately 11:55 p.m. to check on the welfare of Can- dace Parks. They were met at the door by Terry Jones, ac- cording to the report. When Sgt. Seger asked about fresh blood on one of his hands, Jones said he had fallen down outside and de- nied any incident having oc- curred between him and Parks, and he added he had done nothing wrong. Deputy Simmons spoke with Parks and she advised that Jones tried ripping the phone out of her hand. Sim- mons noticed bruises on her arms that were from Jones the previous day. One bruise on her right arm was from five days prior, according to what Parks said in the report. Parks said she was using Jones' phone and talking to an ex-boyfriend when Jones was grabbing and shoving her. When asked about the fresh marks on Jones, Parks said she bit him on the hand to protect herself when he tried to grab the phone out of her bra. In an interview with Jones, he said her marks were from falling on the cat box the night before and that he was on the other side of the room, according to the report. A fter explaining to Dep- uty Prosecutor Sara Chris- tianson what they had at the residence, Simmons placed Jones in handcuffs, told him he was under arrest for do- mestic battery and then transported him to the Pike County Jail. City Council discusses grant, street sweeper By Andy Heuring Petersburg City Council members, in their Monday evening meeting, sought in- formation on a grant to relo- cate a water line and a sew- er line under Highway 61 and they asked the county attor- ney to develop a fireworks or- dinance. Petersburg Mayor R.C. Klipsch told councilmen, while INDOT was designing a project to redo Highway 61, from Main St., Petersburg, north to the White River, en- gineers found an old water line was under Highway 61. Klipsch said it will cost about $585,000 to relocate the line. However, they can get a grant that will reduce the city's cost to $112,000. "Basically, they are making an offer to pay 80 percent of relocating that wa- ter line, from under the high- way to out in the right-of-way." Councilmen were in favor of the project. But during the discussion, it was mentioned that a sewer line was under the highway as well. Councilman John Melhiser asked if they could get a similar grant for that line as well. The engineer said it was a much more expensive project and that because it wasn't un- der pressure, it didn't pose as much risk for problems. But he added it wouldn't hurt to ask about it. Councilmen de- cided to see if the two projects could be done on one grant. The council also request- ed City Attorney Brian Ma- honey to draw up a fireworks ordinance. Mayor Klipsch said he be- came interested in it when the International Faith Church had a summer festival a few weeks ago and set off large fireworks. Klipsch asked the council at the previous meet- ing if they wanted to have an ordinance regulating fire- works displays. They asked Mahoney to write an ordinance that re- stricted the days a fireworks display could take place and required approval for the dis- play from the fire chief. Mahoney said he would present it to them at the next council meeting. Councilmen also discussed their options of getting a re- placement street sweeper. Mayor Klipsch said they took the city's current street sweeper to a firm to see if it could be repaired. He said it had numerous things wrong with it and was too expensive to repair. He said a new street sweep- er would be $230,000 to $250,000, which, if leased, would cost Petersburg be- tween $5,000 and $ 6,000 a month. "I know we can't do that," said Klipsch. He said the firm has a 2008 model that had been refur- bished that costs $109,000, plus two other used as-is mod- els, a 1997 from Bluffton, with 2,112 hours on it, for $ 32,000 and a 2005, with 4,303 hours on it, for $ 35,000, which was used by the Town of Butler. Klipsch advised coun- cilmen there was a certain amount of risk purchasing an "as-is" used product. Melhiser asked if they could get a price on how much it would be to refurbish one of the used models. He said it might be cheaper than the $109,000 model. Klipsch said if they got a price, then they would if they could limit their risk. In a worst-case scenar- io, if the model had problems, they could get it refurbished. It was decided they would try to get a price on refurbish- ing the two used models. The next city council meet- ing is set for 6:30 p.m. Mon- day, August 17.