Putnam Scanner for September 10, 2019

Monday, September 9, 2019

County Jail

Seven people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently.

Sunday

• At 10:19 p.m. William Richard Lee Eubank, 27, Russellville, was lodged at the jail for criminal confinement and domestic battery.

• At 12:03 a.m. David Wayne Roberts, 48, Silex, Mo., was taken into custody for driving while intoxicated.

Saturday

• At 11:30 p.m. Geoffrey Wade McClellan, 35, Brazil, was housed at the jail on a local warrant.

• At 9:16 p.m. Patrick Christopher Stewart, 31, Poland, was booked in for theft.

• At 1:24 p.m. Paul Michael Allender, 50, Linkinton, N.C., was lodged at the jail as a habitual traffic violator.

• At 3 a.m. David William Thompson, 33, Greencastle, was taken into custody for battery, resisting law enforcement, intimidation, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and on a local warrant.

Friday

• At 10:44 a.m. Timothy Lee Fowler, 56, Indianapolis, was booked in on a court order.

Sheriff’s Department

Putnam County sheriff’s deputies investigated four recent property-damage crashes.

• At 7:10 a.m. on Sunday, Scott A. Bunten, 32, Reelsville, was southbound on Manhattan Road approaching a 90-degree turn in a 2001 Dodge Ram.

Bunten told Deputy Matt Biggs that as he negotiated the turn, he felt the rear of the vehicle begin to slide on the wet pavement.

The driver then tapped his brakes to disengage the cruise control, which caused him to lose more traction. The truck fishtailed several times and then left the east side of the road.

Bunten then overcorrected, which caused the truck to roll onto its side in the southbound lane.

The vehicle was towed. Biggs estimated damage at $5,000-$10,000.

Bunten was not injured.

• At 5:15 a.m. Sunday, Wyatt J. Halfhill, 26, Brazil, was eastbound on State Road 240 at the scene of an earlier traffic crash involving a power pole in a 2014 Ford F-550 registered to Duke Energy.

Halfhill told Deputy Biggs he had stopped in the eastbound lane with his flashing lights activated just east of the original crash scene.

Juan Ahuatl, 45, Indianapolis, was following the Duke truck in a 2008 Ford Escape.

When Halfhill stopped, he was rear-ended by Ahuatl.

Ahuatl complained of pain but signed a statement of release. He said he did not have insurance and also had no driver’s license to present to Biggs. He presented a Mexico Consular ID card.

Halfhill was able to drive the Duke truck on to the original crash scene. Ahuatl’s vehicle had to be towed.

Biggs estimated damage at $5,000-$10,000.

• At 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Jordan L. Jones, 19, Greencastle, was on County Road 500 West just south of County Road 50 North in a 2014 Buick Verano.

Jones told Deputy Biggs he met a vehicle that was traveling in the middle of the road, so he moved over, causing him to leave the road and hit standing corn.

Jones was able to continue driving to his home in Greencastle, from where he called police.

Biggs estimated damage at $5,000-$10,000.

• At approximately 4:30 a.m. on Friday, Amy M. Patterson, 35, Greencastle, was northbound on U.S. 231 just north of U.S. 40 in a 2016 Nissan Altima when she hit a tree that was in the road.

Patterson told Deputy Biggs she did not stay because she was running late to work, reporting the crash at 3:30 p.m.

Putnam County Dispatch had received a call of a tree in the roadway early that morning.

Biggs estimated damage at $5,000-$10,000.

Information included in the Putnam Scanner is taken from reports provided to the Banner Graphic by the Greencastle Police, the Greencastle Fire and the Putnam County Sheriff’s departments.

Individuals listed in the blotter have been arrested on probable cause and have not been formally charged. Charging information may change after an initial arrest.

Questions about listed charging information should be directed to the arresting agency.