Police Logs from January 2012

City Police Two Putnam County men were arrested Saturday following an altercation in the middle of South Indiana Street. Officers Nick Eastham and Eric Vaughan responded to a reported fight a block south of the square at 1:44 a.m. Arrested were Cade R. Gibson, 24, Bainbridge, and Dennis Campbell, 42, Greencastle...

County Jail Several people have been housed at the Putnam County Jail recently. At 4 p.m. Mark Wade Eageny, 45, Stilesville, was held for operating while intoxicated. At 5:44 p.m. Zachary Adam Poole, 28, Greencastle, was arrested for probation violation...

Two Fillmore area juveniles are being charged with shoplifting following a Tuesday evening incident at the Greencastle Walmart store. Greencastle City Police Sgt. Chris Jones was called to the store at 6:20 p.m. after two male suspects, ages 16 and 17, were stopped for reportedly attempting to steal men's cologne and razor blades with a total value of $36.92...

County Jail Three people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 11:42 Raymond Herbert Hess, 45, Cloverdale, was arrested for operating while intoxicated. City Fire The Greencastle Fire Department responded to several dispatches recently...

Four recent arrests were reported by Greencastle City Police officers. -- At 11:45 p.m. Monday, Timothy Ray French, 40, Greencastle, was arrested by Capt. Charles Inman on a Montgomery County warrant for contempt of court/failure to appear in court...

County Jail Several people have been booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 10:15 p.m. Nicholas Paul Owens, 21, Bainbridge, was housed at the jail for public intoxication. At 10:20 p.m. Eric Tyler Huber, 21, Bainbridge, was booked for public intoxication, driving with a suspended license, possession of a controlled substance and trafficking contraband with an inmate...

County Jail Several people have been booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 11:45 a.m. Peter John Benedict IV, 39, Clinton, was held at the jail for three counts of failure to appear. At 2:30 p.m. David Johnson Baysinger, 51, La Porte, was arrested for failure to appear...

County Jail Several people have been booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 9:38 p.m. Christopher McKnight, 23, Avon, was lodged in the jail for operating while intoxicated and possession of marijuana. At 2 a.m. Athena Rae Siddons, 28, Cloverdale, was housed at the jail for battery with bodily injury, criminal recklessness, theft and intimidation...

City Fire The Greencastle Fire Department has responded to a number of recent runs. At 9:29 p.m. crews were dispatched to an alarm at 110 E. Larabee St. Cleared 9:36 p.m. At 10:34 p.m. GFD responded to a container fire at Final Approach, 102 Ballard Ln. The restaurant staff had extinguished the fire when crews arrived. Cleared 11:06 p.m...

Local and state officials had to respond for the cleanup process when a Monday morning collision at a local business caused a non-toxic chemical to spill onto nearby soil. John Whitkanack Jr., 78, Cloverdale, was backing up a 1992 Dodge pickup and attached trailer toward a service entrance behind Sparks Tire on North Jackson Street, Greencastle, at approximately 11:45 a.m. Monday...

County Jail Sheriff's Department The car left the road and crashed through a fence. Damage $2,501-$5,000. No injuries were reported. Damage $2,501-$5,000. Stephen D. Freund, 18, Coatesville, came around the corner in a 2006 Ford Focus and could not stop because of the slick road and struck Scolaro's truck in the rear...

He said his foot slipped off the clutch pedal, causing his truck to hit the 2002 Oldsmobile Alero in front of him driven by Christina J. Rumley, 25, Reelsville. Damage $1,001-$2,500. Damage $2,501-$5,000. The car ran off the road and hit the guardrail on the north side of the road. It then spun across both westbound lanes before ending up in the median facing northwest...

County Jail Several people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 11:40 p.m. Scott Dean Campbell, 45, Poland, was held at the jail for possession of cocaine and sale of methamphetamine. At 1:30 a.m. Wesley Keith Foote-Crowdey, 22, Prairieton, was housed at the jail for possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia...

County Jail Several people were booked into the Putnam County Jail recently. At 3:30 p.m. Shane Allen Willey, 21, Cloverdale, was held at the jail for probation violation and possession of a Schedule IV drug. At 6:12 p.m. Christopher Lee Allen, 48, Bristol, was booked in for nonsupport of a dependent...