Two arrested after wild ride along pipeline, police say

Written by The Shelbyville News

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Authorities say it was a wild ride Friday night when local residents near county roads 500 South and 425 East west of Waldron called the Shelby County Sheriff's Department at about 9 p.m. to investigate a report of four-wheelers trespassing and riding up and down the Rockies Express pipeline property.

Responding officers and the riders played a brief game of cat-and-mouse, with the officers spotlighting one rider on a blue ATV, who stared at the officer and kept going, according to police reports.

Another officer located another rider and ordered him to stop, but he also fled. The ATV riders turned off their lights, revved their motors and fled. Some of the local residents joined the search, some on foot and some in vehicles, and one rider and vehicle was found hiding in a ditch, then two more ATVs and riders hiding in another ditch, none of which were the riders who fled, authorities said.

Toby C. Newton, 36, and Mark Alan Benson, 35, both of Shelbyville, were charged with fleeing law enforcement with a vehicle, a Class D felony, and Newton also was charged with trespassing. Benson admitted he had ditched his blue ATV behind a residence, where it was located and impounded, police said.

Source: http://www.shelbynews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=93&ArticleID=58996&TM=61727.55

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