The Press-Dispatch
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A-2 Front Wednesday, March 21, 2018 The Press-Dispatch The final Lenten prayer breakfasts of the season will be this Saturday. MEN March 24 River of Life Fel- lowship. WOMEN March 24 at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic. Lenten Prayer Breakfast schedule: P I K E C OUN TY S A TURDAY , M ARCH 24 OT W E LL COMMU NI T Y CEN TER AG DAY BREAKFAST 7am-10am EGGS, SAUSAGE, PANCAKES, CUP CREEK MAPLE SYRUP, JUICE AND MILK. $ 2.00 Pike County ag Day is Put together by: • The Pike County Young Farmers • The Pike County Farm Bureau, Inc. • The Pike Central FFA • Purdue Extension - Pike County D on 't f org e t t o FRE E v is it t h e H ea lt h S cr e e n i n gs v en d o r b o o ths ! If you need a reasonable accommo- dation to participate in this program, prior to the meeting contact, Purdue Extension at 812-354-6838 Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service is an equal access/equal opportunity institution. CARNIVAL FOR KIDS! Be sure to check out the inflatable bounce house and obstacle course in the gymnasium! ANTIQUE Tractor Display CRACKER BARREL Legislative Session 9:30am Please be sure to visit with: Rep. Ron Bacon Rep. Shane Lindauer Sen. Mark Messmer Saturday, March 24 3pm-8pm for Benefit Donnie Pancake at the Winslow Community Center SEND DONATIONS TO: Chris Young, Pike County EMS Donnie Pancake Benefit P.O. Box 485, Petersburg, IN 47567 Menu ½ Chicken Dinner with potato salad, baked beans, roll, dessert and a drink. • Music by: Tony Rothrock and others • Silent Auction • Rosie Bottoms, the clown • Bounce House, weather permitting ENTERTAINMENT Advance Tickets $ 10 Tickets at the Door $ 15 Call Doug Mounts: 812-582-1414 or Dee Fiscus-Geisbert at 812-766-3188. Tickets will also be sold on Friday, March 23 from 6pm-8pm at the Winslow Community Center. Donnie, Chief of Spurgeon Volunteer Fire Department Kindergarten and pre- school roundup will be Thursday for Winslow and April 12 and 13 for Peters- burg. Winslow Elementary kin- dergarten round-up will be Thursday, March 22. A child must be five years old by Au- gust 1, 2018, to be eligible for kindergarten next year. There will be two sessions of screenings. Session one is from 4 to 6 p.m. and session two from 6 to 8 p.m. To reg- ister, call Winslow Elemen- tary School at 812-789 -2209 to schedule an appointment. The preschool roundup at Winslow will be on Friday, March 23. A child must be four years old by August 1, 2018, to be eligible for pre- school next year. The preschool school screening sessions will last 30 minutes. They are avail- able from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, March 23. Call 812- 789 -2209 to schedule an ap- pointment. Petersburg kindergarten roundup is set for Thursday and Friday, April 12 and 13. A child must be five years old by August 1, 2018, to be eligible for kindergar- ten. Screenings are sched- uled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Petersburg. To make an ap- pointment, call the school at 812-354-6876. Petersburg Preschool roundup is Friday, April 20. A child must be four years old by August 1, 2018, to be eligible for preschool. The 20 -minute screening ses- sion will be available from 8:20 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call the school at 812-354-6876 to schedule an appointment. Preschool, kindergarten roundups start Thursday Six hurt in ATV crash Two teens were injured Saturday afternoon when two AT Vs crashed into each other on CR900S. Indiana Conservation Of- ficers said two four-wheel- ers with six teens between the ages of 13 and 15, col- lided about a half mile west of Highway 61 on CR900S. According to the report the two AT VS were traveling on CR900S when the one in front slowed and the sec- ond one failed to notice and ran into the back of the oth- er AT V. Both AT Vs rolled over ejecting all six teens. One youth with head and arm injuries was transport- ed by ambulance to Daviess Community Hospital. An- other suffered "road rash" and a wrist injury, and was treated and released from Memorial Hospital in Jasper. It happened at about 4:45 p.m. Saturday, March 17. Conservation Officer Joe Haywood said DNR's new policy is they do not release the names of juveniles. He added the mother of one of the juveniles was cit- ed for permitting the teens ride without helmets. He said 11 citations have been issued statewide in 2018 for riding without hel- mets and 44 warnings have been issued. By Andy Heuring A 1:15 a.m. crash into a wood area, a stop for driving 103 mph and running out of gas led to the arrest of four people in separate incidents last week. A Princeton man was ar- rested early Sunday after a car crashed into a woods in Campbelltown. Casey Settle, 23, of Princ- eton, was driving north on Highway 61 when he ran off the right side of the road on Highway 61 at Seven Lakes Road. Pike County Deputy Sheriff Jason McKinney and State Trooper C. J. Boeck- man were dispatched to the scene. Trooper McKinney said when he arrived he talk- ed with neighbors who told him they heard a crash and located a car in the woods. One of the neighbors told McKinney he approached the vehicle and found Set- tle in the car and asked for help to get it unstuck from the mud. McKinney said when the neighbor told Set- tle he had already called 911 Settle became upset and fled when he saw flashing lights approaching. McKinney said he heard a loud noise as he was walk- ing toward the wrecked car, but didn't know what had caused the noise. Trooper Boeckman arrived and they started searching for Settle. When they went behind the nearest house they saw a large pile of lumber with a foot sticking out of it. Troop- er Boeckman said apparent- ly when Settle tried to hide from them the pile of lumber fell over on him and knocked him out. "He was out when we found him." Boeckman said Settle had been at a party in Petersburg and gotten turned around and drove north on Highway 61. He also said Settle was claiming he wasn't driving the car. However, Boeckman said they have a witness who said they saw Settle trying to get the car out of the mud. Settle was taken by ambu- lance to the hospital where he tested 0.247 for blood al- cohol content. That is more than three times the legal limit in Indiana of 0.08 per- cent for driving while intox- icated. Settle was preliminarily charged with operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated, leav- ing the scene of a personal injury accident and false in- forming. An Waveland man was ar- rested on a charge of oper- ating a vehicle while intox- icated (refusal) after police stopped him for driving 103 mph on I-69. Pike County Deputy Sher- iff Jason McKinney said at 12:14 a.m. Saturday he was on routine patrol near mile marker 47 when he saw Josh- ua Blaine Poynter, 23, of 6822 W. 1150 S., Waveland, driving south in a 2004 Au- di at 103 mph. He stopped Poynter who had three pas- sengers. According to McKinney's report Poynter said he didn't realize he was driving that fast and admitted he drank a couple of beers at a Bloom- ington bar. Poynter failed field sobriety tests and he was asked if he would take a chemical tests for blood al- cohol content. Deputy McKinney's re- port stated Poynter "want- ed to bargain with us to not go to jail." He eventually said "I guess yes," to taking the test according to Deputy McK- inney. McKinney said he then talked with the three pas- sengers to see if anyone could drive Poynter's car, but they said Poynter was driving because he was the least intoxicated. Police drove them to Pe- tersburg until someone could pick them up. During an inventory of the vehicle Deputy McKin- ney said they located a load- ed .357 revolver and a bro- ken Rolex watch. Poynter was also charged with reckless driving. An Evansville woman was arrested for drunken driving after she ran out of gas and police attempted to help her. Wendy Nicole Simmons, 32, of 1800 Herndon Dr., Evansville was arrested ear- ly Tuesday, March 13. Deputy McKinney said at 4:12 a.m. central dispatch got a call from a volunteer fireman about a vehicle with two women in it near the Pike-Gibson line on High- way 57, who had run out of gas. McKinney said he went to his house and got a can of gas to take to the women. He said when he arrived he talked with Simmons, who was in the driver's seat and she was having a hard time sitting still and would not look at him when he talk- ed to her. She told Deputy McKin- ney she had been in Peters- burg visiting a friend. McK- inney said she was showing signs of being intoxicated. Simmons failed field so- briety tests and refused to take a chemical test. Accord- ing to McKinney's report she told him she had done meth on Sunday or Monday. She was transported to the Pike County Jail, where she was preliminar- ily charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated (refusal). Her passenger was driven back to Petersburg to wait for a ride. An Oakland City man was arrested late last Thursday on Main St., Petersburg. James Jones II, 30, was stopped by Indiana State Trooper Chase Eaton on Main St. near Eastwood Dr. According to a State Police news release, Jones was tak- en to the Daviess Commu- nity Hospital, where a blood tested showed he tested pos- itive for marijuana and had a blood alcohol content of 0.10 percent. He was then transport- ed to the Pike County Jail, where he was preliminarily charged with operating a ve- hicle while intoxicated , with a prior conviction in the last five years and possession of marijuana. Crash, high speed and running out of gas lead to three arrests By Andy Heuring A rural Petersburg man was arrested Sunday after making threats to his fam- ily and police. Jerry E. Gentry, 52, of 5642 W. CR200N, Peters- burg was arrested by Pike County Deputy Sheriff Mike Willis and Petersburg Po- lice Cpl. Kyle Mills at about 5 p.m. Sunday on prelimi- nary charges of intimida- tion, battery with bodily flu- id or waste, resisting law en- forcement, operating a vehi- cle while an habitual traffic violator and operating while intoxicated (refusal) with a prior conviction in the last five years. Deputy Willis said central dispatch got a call at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday from Gen- try's daughter-in-law, claim- ing Gentry had threatened her family. She told police they had been visiting her husband's grandmother and Gentry was there and wanted to hold their four week old child. She said he became angry when they wouldn't let him hold the child because they thought he was intoxicated. She said she and her hus- band left the residence and went home to get away from him. But at around 4:30 p.m. Gentry called them and de- manded his gun back and threatened to hurt her hus- band and anyone else in the house. She said he gave them one hour to bring the gun to them. According Deputy Wil- lis' report, Gentry told her to call 911 and have the po- lice there and he would "go down and take all of them with him." Cpl. Mills and Deputy Wil- lis were able to locate Gen- try driving a green Dodge Durango on CR575W. Dep- uty Willis said he started following the Durango and saw it go left of and almost off the left side of the road. Willis said he turned on his emergency lights and Gen- try turned into a driveway. He was placed in hand- cuffs, but officers said Gen- try continually tried to pull away from them and get in their face. While dealing with him, Willis said they could smell the odor of alcohol and no- ticed his pupils were dilated. Deputy Willis said while try- ing to read him his rights, Gentry was abusive and re- fused to take field sobriety tests and a chemical test. When they attempted to place Gentry in the police car he resisted. Willis said Gentry re- ceived a small cut on his head as they were trying to put him in the police car. He then wiped his blood on the in-car laptop computer and seat and arm rest, and the blood ended up on Deputy Willis' arm. Deputy Willis said Robert Mason was a passenger in the vehicle with Gentry. Ma- son told police Gentry had picked him up and wanted him to go to the cemetery to see Gentry's father's grave. He said Gentry was driving all over the road. Gentry was taken to the Pike County Jail. Gentry arrested on OWI, habitual violator, resisting arrest charges Police look through Casey Settle's vehicle after it crashed into a woods about 50 yards off of Highway 61 in Campbelltown early Sunday morning.