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Indiana State Police Mas- ter Trooper Paul Bastin said he was notified August 6 by a 68 -year-old resident of the Otwell Senior Housing apartments about suspicious activity with her debit card account. Bastin said Jenkins was employed by the woman to do work around her apart- ment, cook and run errands for her. He said on August 5 Jenkins had been to the woman's residence and was asked to run to Petersburg and get her $160 in cash, pay her insurance and get two money orders. Jenkins returned to the apartment and gave the woman her re- ceipts. That evening, she went to put her debit card back into her wallet and couldn't find it. She thought she might have misplaced it. Then on August 6, she re- ceived a call from the Ger- man American Bank fraud unit and told about some questionable purchases. Bastin said there were purchases on August 5 made on the card to American Ea- gle, Bee Alive and an ATM withdrawal of $480. Then on August 6, there were pur- chases to Amazon, Ameri- can Eagle and Wal-Mart in Washington. The woman noticed a withdrawal of $480 was made instead of the $160 and immediately became suspicious. Trooper Bastin said on August 11, he interviewed Jenkins at the Pike County Jail and she admitted to tak- ing the money and making the purchases. Bastin obtained a war- rant for her arrest follow- ing the interview and Jen- kins turned herself in to the Pike County Jail on Friday, August 14. She faces one count of theft, a level 6 felony and one count of theft, a class A misdemeanor. Theft of more than $750 becomes a felony. Teea Jenkins arrested for theft of credit card By Andy Heuring Two people were arrested for driving while intoxicat- ed in Pike County. One was arrested after he crashed in the White Oak area, another after police got a call about a car driving erratically south from Daviess County. Billy Dale Thomas, 40, of 2436 CR 61 E., Winslow, was arrested late Friday after po- lice were called to an acci- dent where a pickup truck was down an embankment and had a tree on it. Deputy Sheriff Dallas Killian said he and depu- ties Mike Willis and Buck Seger, as well as Petersburg officers Jared Simmons and Sgt. Chad McClellan, went to the scene, where they found a white pickup truck crashed into a tree off the side of the road. Deputy Killian said a car pulled up and they were told the driver of the truck was at 1894 S. Black Run Lane nearby. Deputies went to the residence and found Thom- as. Killian, in his report, said Thomas initially denied driving the truck and gave several different stories be- fore admitting he was driv- ing and crashed trying to miss a deer. He refused medical atten- tion. Thomas failed field sobri- ety tests and was taken to the Pike County Jail, where he tested 0.14 percent for blood alcohol content. According to Killian, po- lice also found a pill bottle with 32 pills identified as hy- drochlorothiazide and oxy- codone. Thomas was arrested on charges of operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated and possession of a legend drug. A Washington woman was arrested on Highway 57 near IPL after Pike County police got a call about a car driving all over the road south from Daviess County on High- way 57. Petersburg Officer Jared Simmons said he and Sgt. McClellan located the a ve- hicle with a headlight out and saw it cross the center line multiple times. They stopped it at CR 650 N. Officer Simmons said when he talked with the driver, Heaven Berry, of 2980 W. Old U.S. Hwy 50, Washington, she told him she didn't have a driver's li- cense. Simmons said Berry told him she had taken three Zanax pills. He said she had to pull herself from the ve- hicle and stumbled against it. She failed the fields so- briety tests and was taken to the Daviess Community Hospital, where she tested positive for benzodiazepine and opiates. Simmons said during booking, jail officers found about 35 pills in a plastic bag in her jacket pocket. She was preliminarily charged with operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance. Two arrested for DWI in separate incidents Teens escape injury as SUV overturns Two Petersburg teens escaped injury Friday afternoon following school when they crashed on a county road. Matthew Ward Hayes, 18, of 406 N. 10th St., Petersburg, was driving a 1998 Ford Explorer north on CR 100 when he lost control on the loose gravel and slid sideways, then ran off the road before flip- ping over, according to Pike County Deputy Sheriff Mike Willis. Logan Bruce Colby, 18, of Petersburg, was a passenger with Hayes. Both refused medical treatment. Willis said the accident occurred at 3:33 p.m. He estimated the vehicle to be a total loss. was I had the same make and model laptop and it just thinks it's the old laptop," Coan added. "You're even- tually going to have to up- grade. I mean, one of these days, it's going to go." Klipsch noted that when the city originally pur- chased the ORION Mobile Reading System in 2002, it was anticipated that it would be good for 10 years. "It's 13 years old, and it was only predicted to last 10," Klipsch said. "So we're on borrowed time, there's no question about that. The question is, how much do we want to gamble on this, be- cause, really, when it does go down, there goes your billing." "It's just a matter of time," Klipsch added. "It's not a matter of if, but when." Klipsch said while he did not expect the price for the upgraded software and hard- ware would change much if the council decided to wait to purchase it at a later date, he was concerned about the consequences if the city's current automated mobile meter reading system failed before it chose to do so. "It's all about the timing," Klipsch said. "I would think it's safe to say if we didn't do anything and it breaks, this price probably wouldn't change very much, but the amount of time that you're down, if you go through a billing cycle, that can get very expensive." Melhiser agreed. "You can't afford to let it break and then do some- thing," Melhiser said. "We're on borrowed time here is what it sounds like," Klipsch said. "There's no guarantee on this. I think we'd better pull the trigger. I think we're flying without a net, so to speak." In other business, the council held the second and third readings of an ordi- nance establishing a new schedule for sewer tap-in fees: $500 for residential, $1,000 for multi-family and commercial under 3,000 square feet, and $2,000 for commercial over 3,000 square feet and industrial. Previously, Petersburg charged a $200 sewer tap- in fee – plus a $25 inspec- tion fee – whether it was for residential, commercial or industrial use. On a motion by Melhiser, seconded by Gary Leavitt, the council voted 4-0 to adopt the ordinance. The council also voted to authorize Klipsch to ad- vertise the sale of a house and lot located at 308 South Ninth Street, which had pre- viously been donated to the city by Wells Fargo. Klipsch said that sealed bids would be accepted for the property and would be opened at the council's next meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 8. "I have at least one par- ty interested in buying that, possibly two," Klipsch said. Klipsch said that he had obtained one appraisal for the property and that he would be seeking a second one as early as Tuesday, Aug. 18, and that an aver- age of the two would be used to set the minimum amount which is legally required. "It must bring 90 percent of that number," Klipsch said. "Now I think when we do this, if you're going to have multiple bidders – which is unusual, sometimes, for us – if somebody comes in and submits a bid, I think we're supposed to notify the other bidders," city attorney Brian Mahoney said. "Yes," Klipsch replied. "I don't think it's happened, but I think we've done that procedure previously, but we usually have one bid only. I would hope that we might, in this case, have more than one bidder. But if it doesn't bring 90 percent of the ap- praised value, we don't sell it anyway." In addition, the Board of Public Works and Safety vot- ed to approve an engineer- ing agreement with Mid- western Engineers, Inc., which will be submitted as part of an application for a federal grant to conduct a sewer planning study. "The application was submitted to Rural Devel- opment for a $ 30,000 plan- ning study," Brian Bullock of Midwestern Engineers, Inc., told the council. "They won't have the money until Octo- ber, so we've got to wait un- til then. But the contract will be contingent upon you re- ceiving the grant." Klipsch also announced that there would be no park- ing allowed on Main Street prior to and during the La- bor Day Parade on Monday, Sept. 7. Police Chief Chuck Baumgart told the council that he wanted to prohibit parking on Main Street from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. "That way, we can make sure we've got a big enough window in there," Baumgart said. "Once the parade is over, we will not be enforc- ing it but, prior to that, we will be." Baumgart said that he and his officers would be posting no parking signs beginning the evening of Sunday, Sept. 6, and that he would be re- leasing information regard- ing road closings and detour routes to be published in The Press-Dispatch. Baumgart also told the council that he's noticed a marked increase in foot traf- fic since the police depart- ment relocated to the former Good Samaritan building. "I can't tell you how ma- ny people stop in there now," Baumgart said. "Compared to before, when we were right here beside city hall, I bet it's 10 times the amount of people coming in there." Baumgart was jokingly asked if the increase was due to a rise in crime in the city. "No," Baumgart replied. "But people will just pop in and give us information all the time, all day long. It's amazing. It's great." "So volume is up is what you're saying," Klipsch said. "Volume is up," Baumgart replied. "Crime is down." During the water board's meeting, Coan announced that Insurance Service Of- fice (ISO) representatives would be visiting Petersburg on Wednesday, Sept. 16, to review the city's fire protec- tion rating. "They've left me a list for Gary (McCandless), the 11 hydrants they checked the last time," Coan said. "He said they will definitely re- check those. And he wants a list of all the new hydrants. He wants a hydrant map. And when they get here, they just pick hydrants to check on, but he would like for Gary to check these 11 ... and go from there." "He said the water test twas 40 percent of the grade, so it's a big deal," Coan add- ed. "We are a Class 6 right now. That's hard to keep." perform throughout the evening, but he will start at 2 p.m. A cornhole tournament is set for the afternoon and wrestling will begin at 7 p.m. WINSLOW COMMUNITY FEST SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 The annual Winslow Com- munity Festival is scheduled for all day on Saturday, Sep- tember 19. There will be a flea market on Main St., in downtown. A midway of ven- dors and children's activities along with inflatables will be set up on Center St. There will be numer- ous musical performances throughout the day and ka- raoke, along with the Voice of Winslow karaoke contest. The annual light-up pa- rade is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. A cornhole tourney is set for noon, with registration starting at 10 a.m. Outhouse races will be at 5 p.m. The outhouses will al- so be judged for creativity. Other events throughout the day will include a fishing contest and a bake-off. We're not afraid to shed some light on the truth. Subscribe Today! 812-354-8500