Scanner for Oct. 9

County Jail

A number of people have been booked into the Putnam County Jail recently.

* At 8:10 a.m. on Friday, Scott Anthony Parker, 29, Avon, was arrested for criminal trespassing.

At 8:45 a.m. Timothy Michael Parker, 25, Greencastle, was held at the jail for contempt of court.

At 1:40 p.m. Michelle Renee Pettit, 39, Greencastle, was charged with possession of marijuana.

* At 2 a.m. Saturday, John Ryan O'Neal, 31, Terre Haute, was booked in for operating while intoxicated.

At 4 a.m. Maxwell T. New, 24, Greencastle, was charged with operating while intoxicated.

At 6:20 p.m. Paul Michael Allender, 44, Stinesville, was booked in for operating while intoxicated.

* At 2 a.m. on Sunday, Zachery Robert Schoen, 20, Rochester, was arrested for operating while intoxicated and for being a minor in consumption of alcohol.

* At 2:43 a.m. Monday, Ronald Wayne Cottrill, 29, Greencastle, was charged with possession of methamphetamine, maintaining a common nuisance and possession of four syringes.

City Police

Allegedly loading a shopping cart with almost $450 worth of merchandise and wheeling it out of Walmart without paying has landed a pair of Greencastle residents in the Putnam County Jail.

At 1:35 a.m. Saturday, Officer Kyle Lee arrested Shelby Skirvin, 19, and Joseph Aton, 21, lodging them in the county jail on theft charges.

Lee reportedly nabbed the pair in the parking lot with a cart filled with miscellaneous groceries and housewares, along with a sock monkey, dog toys, magazines, a kitchen rug, chair pad and a mattress pad.

Total value of the stolen items was listed at $447.09.

One minor property-damage accident Friday morning involved a Greencastle Community School Corporation bus, Officer Ed Wilson reported.

The 2009 Bluebird school bus, driven by Michelle Hunsicker, 42, Greencastle, clipped a parked car as it turned the corner at Vine and Jacob streets.

The car, a 2005 Chevrolet Aveo, is owned by Becca Mason, Fillmore, and was legally parked on the street, police said.

Total damage in the accident was listed at $2,500-$5,000.

One traffic citation was issued recently by city officers.

-- At 8:13 p.m. Sunday, Jeramy Bushong, 26, Greencastle, was ticketed by Officer Lee at Indianapolis Road and Fifth Street for an infraction of driving with a suspended license.

Sheriff's Department

* At 7 a.m. Friday, Eugene D. Grable, 57, Greencastle, was eastbound on County Road 300 South, just east of County Road 250 West, in a 2012 Ford truck registered to Duke Energy when he hit a deer.

Lt. Donnie Pettit estimated damage at $1,001-$2,500.

* At 7 a.m. on Saturday, Lynn Wagner, 61, Coatesville, was westbound on Right-of-Way Road when she was the victim of an apparent hit-and-run collision.

Wagner told Lt. Pettit that she was just east of County Road 675 East in a 2012 Ford Escape when the accident occurred.

She said another vehicle, described as a dark-colored Jeep, attempted to pass her on the left, sideswiping her as it passed.

The Jeep then continued westbound without stopping.

Damage was estimated at $1,001-$2,500.

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.