Biker transported to hospital via helicopter
VAN BUREN TWP. — A Crawfordsville man was transported to the hospital by helicopter after his motorcycle brakes locked, causing him to run off the road on June 5.
Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Austin Schonfeld responded to a crash at the intersection of Orchard Road and State Road 135 South around 11 a.m., according to the accident report.
The motorcycle was driven by 56-year-old Dennis Pickett who reportedly sustained injuries to his head, the report states.
At the scene, Schonfeld reported seeing skid marks in the road and damage to a ditch that led him to believe that Pickett ran off the west side of the road.
One of the driver’s friends, and a witness to the crash, advised police that the brakes locked up on the bike, causing the accident.
Local man faces 2 counts of battery
A Brown County man faces three Class A misdemeanors for domestic battery and resisting law enforcement following incidents in April and May.
Brown County Sheriff’s Deputies Nicholson Briles and Kyle Minor responded to the 2300 block of Mt. Liberty Road for a possible suicidal subject on April 4.
Dispatch advised officers the man, later identified as 35-year-old Robert Anderson, was attempting to leave the home and that he was possibly intoxicated and on drugs, a probable cause affidavit states.
Briles and Minor made contact with Anderson when they arrived on scene. Anderson reportedly had a laceration around his left eye, which he told police was caused by him running into a pole.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Anderson told police he was trying to find his keys to his vehicle to go to the hospital to have his eye checked. Police reported that Anderson’s demeanor was consistent with someone in active drug use on methamphetamine or another stimulant drug.
Anderson reportedly told police he did not need checked by EMS and denied any drug use.
Anderson went into the home to clean his eye, at which point police made contact with a witness who told police that Anderson was using methamphetamine.
The witness told police they believed Anderson’s wound was from being struck by a neighbor.
Another person at the scene told police she had been choked and pushed by Anderson. She also told police that Anderson was in her face, yelling at her.
According to the affidavit, the victim told police that Anderson had been injecting drugs in her without her permission and that she did not want to use the illegal substances.
The witness told police that she heard Anderson and the victim arguing then reported seeing Anderson put his arms around the victim in an aggressive manner. Both the victim and witness did not want to fill out witness statements.
Police made contact with Anderson again who denied drug use and that anything happened between him and the victim.
Anderson was then placed into handcuffs and began pleading with the victim to redact her statement, according to the report.
Police said that Anderson continued to raise his voice to the point of yelling and physically refused to take steps towards the police vehicle. He had to be physically carried to the police vehicle.
He was then transported to Brown County jail.
Police then made contact with the victim again who showed them evidence of how Anderson had injected her with drugs, the affidavit states.
Anderson was formally charged with domestic battery and resisting law enforcement on April 6.
On May 7, Deputy William Pool and Sgt. Jimmy Green responded to the same area after dispatch received a 911 text from the same victim asking for help.
Green arrived on scene and found Anderson, the victim and another individual arguing. The parties were separated.
Anderson was placed into handcuffs at the scene due to his erratic behavior that Pool believed to be due to the use of methamphetamine, according to the affidavit from May 7.
Pool spoke with the victim who said that Anderson hit her. The victim did not want to fill out a written statement and told police not to arrest Anderson, who denied hitting the victim.
Pool told the victim that due to the visible marks on her that Anderson would be arrested.
Anderson was arrested for a second time.
On April 6, Anderson was formally charged with domestic battery and resisting law enforcement, both Class A misdemeanors. He was charged on May 9 with a second domestic battery count stemming from the May 7 incident.
