By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
A Salina man faces aggravated battery and aggravated endangering a child charges after an incident on Interstate 70 just east of the N. Ohio Street exit Sunday afternoon.
Jeremiah John Bastin, 40, of Salina, was driving westbound on I-70 with his wife and three children when he and his wife allegedly got into an argument, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning. While the vehicle was traveling at approximately 50 mph, Bastin allegedly pushed his wife out of the car. She was caught in the seatbelt and drug along for a while, he said.
Bastin then stopped the car and allegedly made his wife's two children, an 11-year-old girl and a nine-year-old girl, get out of the car and left them on the shoulder of the interstate, taking off with his two-year-old son, Soldan said.
The incident, which was witnessed by several people, occurred at approximately 4:57 p.m. Sunday near milepost 254, just east of the N. Ohio Street exit.
Bastin was later found and taken into custody at his residence in the 1900 block of Haskett Avenue, Soldan said.
Bastin was arrested on the following requested charges, Soldan said.
●Aggravated battery
●Aggravated endangering a child
The woman sustained road rash, but otherwise was not injured, Soldan said.