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Sioux City man pleads guilty in federal trafficking case

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December 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City man has pleaded guilty in what authorities have called a human trafficking case in which a teenage Guatemalan girl was raped. The Sioux City Journal reports that 38-year-old Cristobal Francisco-Nicolas pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to a smuggling count and unlawful possession of identification documents. In exchange, a third smuggling count will be dropped.

Prosecutors say Francisco-Nicolas helped pay smuggling costs for the girl and her father to get from Guatemala to the U.S.-Mexico border and then travel to Sioux City. Francisco-Nicolas’ wife, 40-year-old Amy Francisco, pleaded guilty last week to helping her husband in the scheme.

The 17-year-old girl was found wandering Sioux City streets on June 5 and told authorities she had been repeatedly raped by Francisco-Nicolas before she escaped.

Iowa man dies 1 week after being found with gunshot wound

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December 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Police say a man injured in a shooting near the Coe College campus in Cedar Rapids has died from those injuries. Station KCRG reports that 20-year-old Levi Hunter Allen Holten, of Cedar Rapids, died Monday from injuries he received in a shooting on Nov. 25. Police say Holten was found in an alley around 5:15 a.m. that day with a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
Cedar Rapids police say an autopsy has been scheduled. No arrests in the shooting have been reported. An investigation into the shooting continues.

2 arrested on Missouri warrants in Creston

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December 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

A man and woman from Lenox were arrested today (Tuesday) in Creston, on warrants out of Missouri. 29-year old Kristen Oliphant and 40-year old Thomas Lee Zelasko II, were taken into custody at around 12:27-a.m. at Highway 34 and Patriotic Avenue. Oliphant was wanted for Failure to Appear on an original, Felony, Possession of a Controlled Substance charge. She was being held in the Adams County Jail, while awaiting transfer to the Stone County, MO., Jail. Zelasko was wanted for Failure to Appear related to a Tampering with a Motor Vehicle charge. He was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting transfer to Clay County, MO.

And, 44-year old Misty Daughtery, of Lenox, was arrested Monday in Creston, for Driving While Barred. She was later released on a $2,000 bond.

(Podcast) KJAN Morning News & Funeral report, 12/3/19

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December 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m. From KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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Today is Giving Tuesday, an effort to encourage generosity

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December 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — This is Giving Tuesday, a day where Iowans are encouraged to join people around the world in a generosity movement designed to unleash the power of people and organizations to transform their communities. Neal Bohnet, chief development officer for the Iowa Red Cross, says his agency is dedicated to responding to all sorts of disasters — big and small. “We responded to 650 home fires this last year in Iowa along with countless flooding issues,” Bohnet says. “Anything that we’re asked to do as the Red Cross, we’re going to be there to help.”

When needed, the agency sends trained volunteers from Iowa to trouble spots within the state, across the nation and around the planet, providing things like food, lodging, cleaning supplies and emotional support. Bohnet says, “One thing that I always tell folks is that just because a disaster didn’t make the news doesn’t make it any less devastating for those folks involved.”

During 2019, the United States has experienced ten weather and climate disasters, including extreme flooding, storms and wildfires, that cost more than one-billion dollars each. Worse, the frequency of major disasters has nearly tripled in the past five years. Giving Tuesday isn’t just about making donations of cash, as Bohnet says it can also be about giving blood. “We do have Red Cross blood drives all over the state,” Bohnet says. “It’s one of those things that we’re always in need of. The gift of blood is so important and it’s a major part of our life-saving mission at the Red Cross.”

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 as a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past seven years, it’s grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.

https://www.givingtuesday.org/
https://www.redcross.org/

2 arrested in Montgomery County for Violation of No Contact Orders

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December 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

A traffic stop at around midnight Monday in Montgomery County, resulted in the arrest of Jennifer and Christopher Traeger, for Violation of a No Contact Order. The couple was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 cash bond, each. Sheriff’s deputies were assisted at the scene by Red Oak Police.

Garage/partial residential fire in Atlantic Monday night

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December 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Firefighters from Atlantic were called at around 8-p.m. Monday to the scene of a garage fire that had reportedly breached an interior wall of the adjacent residence owned by Greg Blunk. Crews responding to the scene at 1100 Cypress Street found the attached garage fully engulfed in flames, with the fire penetrating the wall into the kitchen area of the residence.

Photo courtesy Cass County EMA Director Mike Kennon.

Chief Mark McNees has said firefighters got a quick knockdown of the flames, but there was substantial damage. A four-wheeler in the garage along with the rest of the contents were lost, and there was heavy smoke damage to the residence.

An initial investigation into the cause pointed toward carelessly discarded smoking material. No injuries were reported.  Atlantic Police Department, Medivac Ambulance, and Cass County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Kennon assisted at the scene.

Iowa early News Headlines: Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, 2019

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December 3rd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CST

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa on Monday agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by three men who worked at the Department of Revenue and claimed they were harassed by another male coworker who followed them into the restroom and secretly videotaped them. The lawsuit was filed by Daniel Wagner, Lloyd Lofton and Joshua Bates, who claim when they reported Kenneth Neal Kerr’s intrusive behavior to supervisors they failed to appropriately act, and it continued for several years.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal court judge says the state of Iowa cannot enforce its latest attempt to stifle undercover investigations of livestock farms and denied the state’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit challenging this year’s so-called ag-gag law. The Republican-led legislature passed the state’s second such law in March, two months after a federal judge struck down the previous 2012 law, saying it violated constitutional free-speech rights.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa has agreed to pay $130,000 in legal bills for two eastern Iowa anti-abortion rights protesters who successfully challenged a portion of the state’s disorderly conduct law. Anthony Miano and Nicholas Rolland frequently read aloud from the Bible and preach on public sidewalks outside abortion clinics. They sued last year after Miano was found in violation of a law making it a simple misdemeanor to create loud and raucous noise near residences or public buildings.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police say they are investigating the death of a man found inside a car with a gunshot wound. Police say it’s considered a suspicious death. Officers and medics were called to the car Monday afternoon in the Sherman Hill neighborhood, just west of downtown. After finding the man, officers and then medics initiated CPR and he was taken to a hospital, where he died a short time later. The man’s name wasn’t immediately released.

Mills County Sheriff’s report (12/2)

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December 2nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Six people were arrested over the past week in Mills County, including three who were taken into custody drug charges. Authorities say 37-year old Dawn Elizabeth Gabriel, of Nebraska City, NE., was arrested at around 4:45-p.m. Thursday following a traffic stop on I-29. Gabriel was charged with Driving While Barred, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Bond was set at $15,000.

Saturday night, 30-year old Michael Lashell Mytriel Goyner, of Omaha, was arrested at 315th Street and Highway 34, for Possession of a Controlled Substance, Possession with the intent to deliver, a drug tax stamp violation, and speeding. Bond was set at $10,000. At the same location about 50-minutes earlier, 21-year old Darrell Leroy Thompson, also of Omaha, was arrested for Possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver, and two counts of Failure to Affix a Drug Tax Stamp. His bond was also set at $10,000.

44-year old Shawn Bernard Studey, of Shenandoah, was arrested Nov. 27th at the Page County Jail, on a Mills County warrant for Failure to Appear. 38-year old Christopher Michael Hall, of Glenwood, was arrested Nov. 30th for Public Intoxication. And, 22-year old Michaela Cheyenne Goodman, of Malvern, was arrested Sunday night for OWI/2nd offense and Driving While Revoked.

Iowa will pay anti-abortion protesters’ legal bills

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December 2nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa has agreed to pay $130,000 in legal bills for two eastern Iowa anti-abortion rights protesters who successfully challenged a portion of the state’s disorderly conduct law.

Anthony Miano and Nicholas Rolland, both of Davenport, frequently read aloud from the Bible and preach on public sidewalks outside abortion clinics. They sued Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness last year after Miano was found in violation of a law making it a simple misdemeanor to create loud and raucous noise near residences or public buildings that cause unreasonable distress to occupants.

On Sept. 26, U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger found a section of the Iowa Code unconstitutionally vague because it subjects speakers to criminal punishment based on the reactions of third parties. She ordered the state to pay legal fees for Miano and Rolland.

On Monday, the Iowa Appeal Board approved payment of $127,300 to the Virginia-based American Center for Law & Justice, a Christian-based activist group, and $6,742 to Iowa-based Munro Law Office.