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Picklesimer indicted on drug charge, fatal hit-and-run still under investigation
DAYTON — Jimmie Picklesimer, the suspect in an fatal hit-and-run that killed a woman and her dog, was indicted Thursday, Aug. 12, on a possession of drugs count.
That charge comes from Picklesimer’s second arrest last week on Aug.5. The first arrest was Aug. 1, the day Rebecca Thompson, 42, and her dog were struck near the intersection of Payne and Division streets in Harrison Twp..
Picklesimer remains in the Montgomery County Jail under a $500,000 bond. Though the drug count is only a fifth-degree felony, the lowest classification, Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck, Jr. and Sheriff Phil Plummer asked for a high bond.
In the hit-and-run, Picklesimer initially told deputies his truck had been carjacked by an armed man. After questioning at his parents’ Riverside home and district headquarters, Picklesimer admitted to hitting the woman and dog, fleeing the scene and making up the carjacking story. He also told deputies he had consumed six beers prior to hitting Thompson.
Picklesimer was released from the jail Aug. 2, pending further investigation.
Three days later, Picklesimer was arrested by deputies around 3:50 a.m. at the intersection of Needmore Road and School Drive in Harrison Twp., just blocks from where Thompson and her dog were killed.
Deputies spotted a 1996 Ford Taurus driving in the vicinity of Northland Village, an area known for its drug sales to those from outside the area. When deputies saw the Taurus fail to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, they followed the Taurus and made a traffic stop.
The deputy who spoke with Picklesimer reported he had “glassy, watery eyes, slurred, mush-mouth speech and the odor of alcohol,” according to the sheriff’s report. The deputy also spotted a prescription bottle on the seat next to Picklesimer, for which he had a prescription.
Picklesimer said he had consumed three beers and taken two pills from his prescription. He told the deputy he had the prescription because of “anxiety from a recent accident that was bad in nature.”
He agreed to a Breathalyzer test after failing a field sobriety test, saying “he was probably over the limit,” the deputy wrote. Picklesimer later declined the test. He was arrested for impaired driving and taken to the jail.
At the jail, the deputy saw Picklesimer drop a pill on the floor. The pill tentatively was identified as a Schedule III narcotic, and a citation for drug possession was added to his booking. In addition to the felony count, he was also charged with one misdemeanor count of operating a vehicle under the influence.
Refusing to submit to the breath test led to the automatic suspension of Picklesimer’s driver’s license. It is the 10th such suspension of his license since 2002.
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