Marion County Sheriff’s Deputies and Salem Police have arrested a 26-year-old rural Odin man on two counts of residential burglary as well as theft and criminal damage to property charges. Salem Police say Trevor Langford of Norton Road was arrested in connection with a fence being cut at the Little Egypt Golf Cars facility on South Broadway. Golf car batteries were allegedly stolen. Details on the residential burglary arrests by sheriff’s deputies were not immediately available.
State Police arrested 32-year-old Karissa Bobbett of Cottonwood Village in Salem with possession of meth, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was taken to the Marion County Jail.
22-year-old Dawson Coughlin of South Hickory in Centralia was arrested by Centralia Police for violation of the sex offender registration act and on an Illinois Department of Corrections warrant.
A 39-year-old Salem man was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence following a hit-and-run crash in Odin. Damian Castellari of Hotze Road reportedly left the scene after striking the car in the 1000 block of Poplar Avenue in Odin. He was eventually stopped on the Hotze Road and taken to the Marion County Jail.
Salem Firemen were called to help put out a large brush fire in the 700 block of West Whitaker. William Morlan had informed the fire department earlier he would have a small brush fire, but the department was called when a larger than anticipated fire appeared as if it might get out of control.