Local police and firefighters helped rescue a man from one of the Salem water towers Monday morning. Salem Police, Salem Fire, and ambulance personnel responded to a call about a man who had apparently climbed up the east water tower off of East Main Street around 11:10 Monday morning. Salem Police Chief Ron Campo says the victim had climbed up there on his own sometime Sunday evening. "He got the attention of a truck driver in the lot. So we were faced with how do we make contact with him. It was so windy that we couldn't make any contact with him. So two of my officers volunteered to put on harnesses and take the extension ladder from the fire truck up as high as it would go, and it still left them about 100 feet to go, and with harnesses and firemen, they climbed up there and made contact with the subject, and at that point they were able to determine that he was scared, and he wasn't going to come down", said Campo. Campo says they called in the Centralia Fire Department to help them get him down. The victim was harnessed down by the Centralia Technical Rescue Team around 2:30pm. The Centralia TRT are experts at high altitude rescue. He says the reason the victim climbed up the tower was because the victim was despondent, and threatened to commit suicide. The victim was taken to Salem Township Hospital for evaluation. The name of the victim is not being released. - http://goo.gl/DmKBO
Monday, November 14, 2011
Carlyle Lake Temporary Closes Dam East Boat Ramp
Carlyle Lake - The Carlyle Lake Project will be closing the Dam East Recreation Area and Boat Ramp to the general public from Friday, November 18th at 8:00 a.m. through Sunday, November 20th at 3:00 p.m. The area will be utilized by the U.S. Army 739th Engineer Company to perform training exercises. All other boat ramps remain open for launching. For more information about Carlyle Lake, contact the Carlyle Lake Project Office at (618) 594-2484 or email at carlylelake@usace.army.mil. - http://goo.gl/E0Nqz
Marion Prison on Lockdown After Fights
MARION, Ill. (AP) - A federal prison in southern Illinois is on lockdown after weekend fights left about a dozen inmates with minor injuries. The Carbondale Southern Illinoisan reports that no workers at the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion were injured in the series of flare-ups Sunday afternoon in the prison's recreation yard. The prison will remain on lockdown until the investigation is complete. It isn't clear how many inmates actually took part in the fights or what their injuries were. - http://goo.gl/6YnkN
38-Year-Old Mt. Vernon Killed When Truck Crashes Northeast of Waltonville
A 38-year-old Mt. Vernon man has died in a single vehicle wreck in Jefferson County. Coroner Eddie Joe Marks says Brian Piper was pronounced dead at Crossroads Hospital in Mt. Vernon at 3:25 Sunday morning. He reports Piper appeared to be in the process of making a turn from Vermont Road onto Davis Road near McClelland School north east of Waltonville when his truck went out of control. Marks says the truck appears to have hit a culvert, veered off the other side of the road, hit the roadside ditch and overturned. Piper, who was not wearing a seatbelt, struck the windshield. Marks says Piper died from blunt force trauma to the head. The coroner thinks sleep deprivation may have been part of the reason for the wreck. Marks reports Piper apparently hadn't slept in 50 hours and had been out duck hunting. The wreck was first reported to police at 2:35 Sunday morning.
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Police Beat For Monday, November 14th, 2011
A 54-year-old Centralia man is being held in the Marion County Jail for alleged aggravated battery, driving under the influence of alcohol, leaving the scene of an accident and driving on a suspended license. Centralia Police say Cecil Pearce of Robinet Street was arrested shortly after midnight Monday morningwhen they responded to a report of a fight in the one-thousand block of Wright Drive. Pearce had allegedly gotten into an altercation with Douglas Griggs III of Wright Drive when Griggs tried to stop Pearce from leaving the scene of an accident. Police eventually determined Pearce had allegedly struck three parked vehicles on Wright Drive and Saddler Place. A 29-year-old Centralia woman is being held for alleged possession of a controlled substance and on an outstanding Marion County misdemeanor warrant. Sabrina Hoercher of Broadway was allegedly found in possession of three narcotic pills without a prescription after being arrested on the warrant charging failure to appear or pay on a misdemeanor theft warrant. Bond on the warrant is set at $10,000. Three others remain in custody on outstanding warrants. 38-year-old James Brown of Bruce Court in Centralia is being held in lieu of $5,000 bond on a Marion County DUI warrant. 38-year-old Todd Hughes of Patterson in Centralia remains in jail in lieu of $5,000 bond on an outstanding ordinance violation warrant for possession of cannabis. 27-year-old Sara Phillips of Illinois Street in Alma remains in custody on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant following her arrest by Alma Police. A 39-year-old Salem woman has been arrested for alleged battery. Lena Mosher of South Lincoln Street is accused of striking Melissa Gonzales of East Lyford in Salem when Gonzales went to a home on West Poplar Street in Odin to pickup her child. Mosher later posted $150 bond and was released from the Marion County Jail. 30-year-old Jaime Crawford of Stafford, Missouri posted $350-bond and was released on an outstanding Marion County traffic warrant.
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