Police: Fight leads to man’s felony arrest
A Brown County man is facing a felony domestic battery charge after a caller at a gas station reported a woman with a black eye and covered in blood.
Just after 1 a.m. on Jan. 27, a caller from the Circle K on State Road 46 East reported that the woman had walked into the store before leaving to go to the golf course across the street, says a probable cause affidavit by Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy William Pool. Pool reported finding a car matching the caller’s description in the parking lot of the golf course, with a woman driving and a child in the back seat.
The woman’s face was covered in blood and her right eyebrow had a knot in it, Pool’s report said. She said that she and 37-year-old Jacob Wilkerson had gotten into a fight. She said she did not want Wilkerson to get into trouble, and that she was staying at the golf course until she could find somewhere else to live, the report said.
According to the woman, an argument began at about 11 p.m. Jan. 26 at a different location. She said Wilkerson grabbed her by her arms and began to shake her. She was able to get away and hit Wilkerson in the head. The fight continued upstairs. He put the woman on the couch where he squeezed her hands tightly, causing severe pain and bruising to her left arm, the report said.
The woman was able to break away before he pushed her to the floor and held her there, shouting and calling her names. A child then tried to break up the fight, and the woman was able to get away from Wilkerson again, the affidavit states. Wilkerson continued to scream, pushed the woman again, and she punched him in the eye, according to the affidavit.
While they were wrestling on the couch again, the woman punched Wilkerson. This split open his upper lip, and Wilkerson held her down as he spit blood on her face and clothing, the affidavit states. The woman then left with the child in a car.
Police also interviewed the child, who was described as “visibly shaken.”
Pool reported seeing blood splatter on the woman’s face, shirt and hands. In addition to the bump on her eyebrow, her left pinky knuckle and right hand were bruised. She denied medical treatment from EMS.
Police were notified that Wilkerson had come into the sheriff’s department wanting to make a report, but they were not able to get there before he left. They found him at a home on Hoover Road.
He told deputies that he and the woman were arguing when the victim lost her temper and hit him in the back of the head as he was trying to walk away. He said the woman followed him upstairs where she punched him and split his lip open. He said he was trying to get her to leave.
Wilkerson was charged with a Level 6 felony on Jan. 31.
Police: Man hit neighbor with stick over dispute
HAMBLEN TWP. — Police say a Brown County man hit his neighbor with a stick while arguing about property lines last year.
Eric Olmstead, 53, was charged with battery resulting in bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor, on Feb. 12.
Police were dispatched to the 7100 block of Pumpkin Ridge Road March 28 last year for a neighbor dispute. Olmstead told Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy William Pool he was upset because his neighbor had a business behind his house that is not supposed to be there, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Olmstead hung yellow caution tape along what he thought was the property line, which upset his neighbor. On March 28, the neighbor began taking down the caution tape because he thought it was on his property.
While the neighbor was removing the caution tape, he was approached by Olmstead, who had picked up a stick and was shouting profanities at the neighbor. The neighbor then pulled out his cellphone and began recording the altercation, the affidavit states. The video allegedly showed Olmstead yelling and swearing at the neighbor for taking down the tape. The video then shows Olmstead running up the driveway toward the neighbor, swinging the stick and then knocking the cellphone out of the neighbor’s hand, according to the affidavit filed Feb. 12.
The neighbor told police that while the phone was being knocked out his hand, Olmstead swung again and hit him in the face with the stick. Pool reported that the neighbor had a mark on his forearm that was photographed.
Olmstead was arrested and taken to the Brown County jail.
Man in vehicle faces drunken driving charge
A Brown County man was arrested on Jan. 27 after he was found sitting in the driver’s seat of a running vehicle in the 600 block of State Road 46.
Nashville Police Officer William Pruitt found John Perkins, 26, in the driver’s seat just before 4 a.m.
Pruitt’s report said he smelled alcohol on Perkins, his speech was slurred, his manual dexterity was poor and his balance was unsteady.
The officer wrote that Pruitt also failed to shut off his vehicle during his interaction with Pruitt, he could not open his door, and he leaned against his vehicle. A breath test showed his blood-alcohol content to be 0.15, nearly twice the legal limit for a driver.
He was charged Jan. 29 with three misdemeanors for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Yellowwood visitors face marijuana charges
YELLOWWOOD — Two men face misdemeanor charges after an Indiana Conservation Officer stopped to talk with them in Yellowwood State Forest and smelled marijuana.
Officer Brent Bohbrink reported that he saw a vehicle pulled off in the state forest with both the driver and passenger doors open. Bohbrink approached the men, believing they were hunters. They were Joshua Hall, 32, of Nashville, and Frank Broaddus Sr., 58, of Greenwood.
As he spoke with them, Bohbrink reported smelling marijuana. The two admitted to smoking prior to Bohbrink showing up, the probable cause affidavit states. Bohbrink found a bag of marijuana in the vehicle within reach of both, the affidavit states.
On Jan. 18, Broaddus Sr. was charged with possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor. Hall was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia, both misdemeanors.
Police investigate suspicious vehicle, arrest one
GNAW BONE — A Brown County sheriff’s deputy stopped to check out a suspicious vehicle at the Gnaw Mart gas station and ended up arresting one man who had been wanted on a warrant.
Deputy William Pool was driving east on State Road 46 East just before 11:30 p.m. Jan. 30 when he saw a red car pull from behind the gas station. Pool wrote in his report that that behavior was odd because the store was closed. When Pool passed the vehicle, the headlights were turned off.
He turned around to run the vehicle’s plates and found that they belonged on a different blue vehicle, that the registered owner had a suspended license, and the plate was inactive, his report said.
The driver, Joshua Dean Lucas, 25, of Hope, did not have a driver’s license. Neither Lucas nor his female passenger were the registered owner of the vehicle or plate, Pool reported.
Lucas was arrested on a failure to appear warrant for a probation violation in Bartholomew County. When Pool was searching him, he reported finding a small red straw that Lucas said he used to snort pills. Pool reported seeing white residue consistent with snorting pills in the straw, the affidavit states.
Lucas was taken to the Brown County jail. He was charged with possession of paraphernalia, a Class A misdemeanor, on Feb. 1.
