Officials with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, today (Thursday), report the arrest Wednesday night, of a Lorimor man. 57-year old Tommy Allen Green was arrested at around 9:30-p.m. at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County warrant for failure to appear.  Green was being held in the Union County Jail on $300 bond.

The Sheriff’s Office said also, no injuries were reported following an accident Wednesday afternoon, between Afton and Thayer. Authorities say 80-year old Larry Lee Schlapia, of Creston, was traveling north on Highway 169 when he came upon a tractor pulling a planter, that was stopped at the intersection with Highway 34.

Schlapia told deputies he misjudged the distance between his vehicle and the planter, because he had recently left an eye doctor and his vision was not yet fully adjusted. His 2008 Mercury Marquis struck the 2016 John Deere Great Plains planter, causing $600 damage to the implement and $2,500 damage to the car. The 2011 John Deere tractor, driven by 68-year old Larry Brown, of Afton, was not damaged.