The Press-Dispatch
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The Press-Dispatch Local Wednesday, Januar y 3, 2018 A- 7 By Andy Heuring One man was arrest- ed for drunken driving af- ter he drove himself to the Pike County Jail to report he had beat up his girl- friend. Another was arrest- ed after police received a phone call about a truck swerving all over the road and nearly hitting other motorists. Joshua Alan Brames, 32, of 203 S. Fourth St., Peters- burg, was arrested at about 10 p.m. Thursday, Decem- ber 28, after he went into the lobby of the Pike Coun- ty Jail to report he had beat- en up his girlfriend. Deputy Buck Seger said Brames claimed he "threw her around the residence and bounced her off every wall in the place." Seger, in his report, stated Brames was glassy eyed, had bad- ly slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. When Seger asked how Brames got to the jail, he said he drove and admitted he didn't have a license be- cause it had been suspend- ed for a prior OV WIi ar- rest. According to the re- port, Brames said he drank a pint of vodka. When they asked him if he would take the chemical test, he said, "My license is suspended already. What's the point? " Seger said they went out- side and found Brames' ve- hicle partially parked on the sidewalk. Indiana State Trooper C. J. Boeckman and Pe- tersburg Cpl. Jared Sim- mons went to Brames' res- idence and spoke to his girlfriend. She told police she had not been assaulted and she didn't know what he was talking about. She said they got into a verbal argument and Brames left. Brames was arrested on a preliminary charge of op- erating a vehicle while in- toxicated, (refusal) with a prior. An Otwell man was ar- rested at 4 p.m. on Wednes- day, December 27 on CR 850 E. after a motorist called police and told them a black truck was all over the road, nearly hitting oth- er vehicles. According to a probable cause affidavit, it was first reported on Highway 356 and State Police Sgt. Wil- liam Gadberry saw it turn north on CR 850 E. While following it, Sgt. Gadber- ry said he saw the vehicle drive entirely onto the left side of the road and noticed the driver wasn't wearing seatbelt. Gadberry stopped the vehicle and was assisted by State Trooper John Davis. Trooper Davis said when he approached Wright and asked him to get out of the vehicle, Wright nearly fell over and Trooper Davis had to assist him to keep him from falling. He failed field sobriety tests and was transported to Memo- rial Hospital, where he test- ed 0.196 percent for blood alcohol content. The legal limit for driving in Indiana is 0.08 percent. According to the prob- able cause affidavit, when Sgt. Gadberry opened the door of Wright's truck to move it from the road to a farm field access way, he saw a wooden contain- er that had plant materi- al in it and a metal smok- ing pipe. The plant materi- al field tested positive for marijuana. 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He was accused of steal- ing a bus used by crews at a large pumpkin field located behind Walnut Hills Ceme- tery in Petersburg. • Kirby's Drive-In re- union drew a group of peo- ple from the 60s and 70s generation to reminisce about their memories in the early 1960s when they hung out at Kirby's Drive- In. It was located where the Muren Church of God is now located. The drive- in operated between 1962 and 1973. • Pike Central cross country runners Halley Powers, and boys Draven Huff and Ijaa Chambers all advanced to the semi-state meet. Powers ran a person- al best of 21:02, which was 12 seconds better than her previous best time to place 20th. Huff ran a 17:13, placing 22nd, while Chambers, a freshman, placed 25th in a time of 17.24. • Pike Central senior Kys- son Western was named to the Indiana Soccer Coaches Association District 4 team. • Taylor Deffendoll was named to the All-PAC team for soccer. • Indiana District 63 State Representative Mike Braun announced he was resigning his position so he could focus on his run for the Indiana U.S. Senate seat, which will be on the 2018 ballot. • Shane Lindauer, of Jas- per, was elected by a Repub- lican caucus to the position of Distinct 63 State Repre- sentative. He was appoint- ed to replace Mike Braun, who resigned to spend more time on his run for U.S. Sen- ator. • A furnace malfunction was blamed for a fire that damaged Joann Grubb's house on CR 125 S. Ty- ler Thomas, who lives at the residence, said he was asleep and his wife noticed a crackling sound. When he went into the basement to check, he saw flames across the ceiling of the basement. Firemen were able to lim- it the damage to the base- ment. • Union Township Fire Department received a sur- prise delivery of a fire truck during the Union trick or treat event. Union, which had recently reorganized, purchased a used truck and was waiting for it to be re- furbished and delivered. "We didn't know we were getting it today. We had no idea," said Union VFD sec- retary Dana Travis. "This is awesome." • Petersburg Mayor R. C. Klipsch and John Man- dabach, of the Pike Coun- ty Economic Development Council, attended The Friends of Aichi Recep- tion that was sponsored by the Japan-American Soci- ety of Indiana. They met Aichi Prefectures Gover- nor Hideaki Ohmurra and the Aichi delegation. Earlier this year, Mandabach went to Japan with Indiana Gov- ernor Eric Holcomb. Dur- ing that trip, they met Gov- ernor Ohmurra, who in re- turn brought a group to In- diana. In Japan, a prefecture is similar to a state in the U.S. More than 40 companies from Aichi have 69 facili- ties in Indiana already. NOVEMBER • An alert passerby no- ticed a woman yelling for help from a "dirty van" and called police. It led to the ar- rest of Seth Joshua Smith, 34, of 8195 E. CR 175 S., Vel- pen, on charges of kidnap- ping while using a vehicle, a level 5 felony; domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a level 5 felo- ny, criminal confinement, committed by using a vehi- cle, a level 6 felony; resist- ing law enforcement; crim- inal recklessness and reck- less driving. • Pike County Commis- sioners voted to apply for a grant that would fund a $2.75 million improvement to CR 300 N., from Highway 61 to the Indiana Southern Railroad tracks. Pike Coun- ty Economic Development Executive Director Ashley Willis said this is the first phase of a two-phase proj- ect to make improvements to CR 300 N. that would connect Highway 61 and 57 through the middle of the development. The ar- ea includes a shovel-ready industrial site, plus a Me- ga Site, as well as a rail site. The grant would pay 80 per- cent of the project. "We see it as a great opportunity to have a heavy road for only 20 percent of the cost, " said Willis. • Pike Central 2013 grad- uate Cain Parker, who is a red shirt senior at the Uni- versity of Southern Indiana, earned All-Midwest region honors in cross country. Parker placed eighth out of 198 runners at the NCA A Division II Midwest Region Championship in Cedar- ville, Ohio, with a personal best time of 31:38.4 in the 10K run. • Ten people were arrest- ed in two separate incidents on meth-related charges. Both incidents were trig- gered by improper license plates. In the first incident, Christopher Jones, 42, of Petersburg, and Heath- er A. Nowark, 44, of Win- slow, were both arrested on charges of dealing in meth, while Susan Roach, 52, Raymond Conrad Strom- bald, 54, and Clifford Bry- an Byers, 35, all of Jasper, were arrested on possession of meth charges. In the second incident, Marcus J. Henson, of Wash- ington, was arrested on a charge of dealing in meth, a level 3 felony, while Nicole Duke, 19, of Petersburg, Gage Douglas Fiscus, 21, of Otwell, and Kyle D. Ro- bling, 19, of Winslow, were all arrested on possession of meth. Tracey J. Yarbrough, 40, of Vincennes, was arrest- ed on a charge of possession of marijuana. • Sara Bruce, 29, of Oak- land City, was injured on Highway 64 on Monday, No- vember 13, when she ran in- to the back of a semi-truck that has slowed in front of her about a half-mile west of Highway 61. • Pike Central's Peyton Sorgius signed a letter of in- tent to play softball at Lind- sey Wilson College. • Pike Central senior Hal- ley Powers signed a letter of intent to run cross country at Oakland City University. • Five light poles on Main Street, Petersburg, crashed to the ground at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday, November 18. Traffic was blocked for several hours, while crews removed the poles and de- bris from the street. An inspection of the poles showed severe deterioration of the four, one-inch diame- ter metal rods in each pole's base used to secure them. In most of the pole bases, at least one of the rods had rusted completely in two. Duke Energy owned the poles and leased them to Petersburg. When Duke crews saw the condition of the poles, which had been in place since at least the 1950s, they sent crews to remove all of the poles for safety concerns. This left Petersburg with only seven light poles that had been installed: recent construction projects in front of the Downtown Ter- race apartments, Home Sav- ings Bank and Parsifal. • The Pike County School Corporation announced they were going to begin using the former Otwell El- ementary School to offer two programs: an alterna- tive to suspension program and an alternative learning program. It is scheduled to begin in January 2018. • Petersburg attorney Wyatt Rauch was injured in a crash on Main St., Peters- burg, when he drove in front of Christopher Kinman at Sixth St. and was hit in the driver's side door. • Krista Robinette was recently hired as executive director of the Pike County Chamber of Commerce. • Pike Central senior Eri- ka Hendrickson signed a let- ter of intent to play basket- ball at Maryville University. • Kyson Western was named honorable mention All-State by the Indiana Soc- cer Coaches Association. DECEMBER • Two teens suffered se- rious head injuries in a late night crash in rural Pike County. Brandon Blackwood, 13, of Princeton, and Kadin McKannon, 13, of Francis- co, were both taken by air ambulance to the hospital and placed in intensive care with head injures suffered when the SUV they were rid- ing in, on CR 500 W., went airborne after topping a hill, ran off the road, overturned and crashed into a tree. It was being driven by Ra- chel Durham, 17, of Prince- ton. Durham's sister, Sara, 15, and brother Samuel, 12, all escaped serious injury. • Petersburg City Coun- cil voted 4-1 to approve an ordinance allowing golf carts to operate on most Pe- tersburg streets if they pass an inspection and receive a permit. The permits will be available beginning January 1, 2018. • K-9 Officer Bleck joined the Pike County Sheriff's Department and reported for duty. Bleck, a Czecho- slovakian Shepherd, under- went six weeks of joint train- ing with Pike County Depu- ty Buck Seger. • Winslow resident Cody Schieve was selected to participate in the King of the Cage World Amateur Championships 4 at Reno, Nev., vying for a $250,000 professional contract. • Natalie Bohnert broke her own school record in the 100 butterfly by almost three seconds. The old re- cord was 1:05.92. The new record is 1:03.18. • Winslow Town Coun- cilmen voted 2-1 to disband Winslow's park board. "It was getting out of control, too many complaints. It was like we created a monster," said council president Ter- ry Strobel. • Christian Alvey was 8 -0 at the wrestling Pocket Ath- letic Conference Dual meets in the 195 -pound weight class. He had three pins, a major decision, two wins by decision and two forfeits. • The Pike County School Corporation received ap- proval from the Indiana De- partment of Education to use the former Otwell El- ementary School for alter- native education programs. An alternative to suspension program for grades 6 to 12 will be an alternative to out- of-school suspension. The other program to be housed at Otwell will be an alterna- tive to education program for students in grades 9 to 12. • Kyle Woods, 19, of rural Petersburg, was arrested on a charge of rape. • Spurgeon Fire Chief and Pike County EMT Don Pancake was serious- ly injured when he swerved to miss a deer and drove through a guard rail on CR 125 S. at a 90 -degree curve, near Knight's Cha- pel Church. Pancake's pick- up truck slammed through the guardrail, when down a steep slope and slammed in- to an embankment. He suf- fered numerous facial inju- ries. • Petersburg Mayor R. C. Klipsch and Police Chief Chuck Baumgart issued a warning to Petersburg res- idents about burn barrels. Klipsch said burning trash in burn barrels was for- bidden by city ordinance. Baumgart said not only will people be fined, they also will be charged for the cost of the fire department re- sponding. They both asked residents to report immedi- ately anyone burning trash in city limits. • Adam Martinez was named the Pike County re- cipient of the Lilly Scholar- ship. Monday house fire claims Dorothy Kinman Firemen battle an intense fire that quickly spread though Mike and Dorothy Kinman's house on CR 200 N., south of Petersburg, on Monday. Dorothy died in the fire that started at about noon. Mike was able to get his handicapped daughter out of the fire uninjured. REVIEW Continued from page 4 Intoxicated driver turns himself in