A traffic stop early this (Sunday) morning in Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of a man from Minnesota. Red Oak Police report 26-year old Tam Thanh Hong, of Rosement, MN., was pulled over on Highway 34 near Highway 48, at around 3:50-a.m.  Upon further investigation, officers arrested Hong for Possession of a Controlled Substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. He was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $1,000 bond.

A man from Pottawattamie County was arrested late Saturday night, in Red Oak. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office says 42-year old Joshua Dale Lamb, of Council Bluffs, was taken into custody at around 11:26-p.m. Saturday, for Driving While Suspended. Lamb was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on bond amounting to $566.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:55 a.m. CDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Some Iowa bars and other businesses are voluntarily closing their doors amid an increase in confirmed coronavirus cases. Among them was the Artifacts antiques shop in Iowa City. Owner Todd Thelen told the Gazette that the store has seen three of its mostly older customers die because of the virus. Confirmed cases in the state increased by an additional 380 on Saturday, bringing the total to 27,935. The state also reported three more deaths to bring the total to 704. Businesses that closed or limited operations at the beginning of the pandemic had started expanding operations as Gov. Kim Reynolds began easing restrictions.

WEST UNION, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines woman has been arrested in a 2-year-old hit-and-run crash that killed a 14-year-old on a moped. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Fayette County Sheriff Marty Fisher said 26-year-old Kelli Jo Michael, of Des Moines, was arrested Friday and charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident in the death of Kaiden Estling. The teen from Maynard was struck in June 2018 while driving a moped along Iowa 150 about 2 1/2 miles south of Fayette. Michael is jailed on $50,000 cash only bond. It wasn’t immediately clear if she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa agency whose power to remove problem officers was recently expanded generally has taken years to ban those who commit serious crimes and rarely punishes officers for improper policing alone. Records show the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Council has sought to decertify 17 officers in the last 2½ years after determining they had committed crimes or misconduct that warranted their removal from the profession. An Associated Press review found that most of those officers had been found guilty of felonies, domestic violence or other crimes that disqualify them from working in law enforcement. Only one officer since 2018 has been decertified for improper police work.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed into law a bill that limits the secretary of state’s ability to send absentee ballot requests to all registered voters. The change signed into law Thursday followed a record turnout in this year’s primary election, largely because of a surge in absentee voting. Senate Republicans pushed the measure through the legislature barely a week after a huge primary turnout, as Secretary of State Paul Pate sent ballot requests to all voters because of concerns in-person voting could be dangerous during the coronavirus pandemic. If the coronavirus persists and Pate wants to mail ballot applications to voters before the November election, the measure that Reynolds signed would require approval of the Republican-run legislature.

Des Moines-based Hy-Vee announced this weekend it is recalling 12 more of its packaged salads. The company said the salads may be contaminated with cyclospora. The latest Hy-Vee brand products to be recalled include:

• Hy-Vee Southwest Chopped Salad Kit (13.4 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Shredded Iceberg (8 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Veggie Deluxe Salad (12 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Greener Supreme Blend (12 oz.)
• Hy-Vee American Blend Salad (12 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Italian Blend Salad (10 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Coleslaw Mix (16 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Romaine Garden Salad (12 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Asian Chopped Salad Kit (13.7 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Sunflower Chopped Salad Kit (13.2 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Chipotle Cheddar Chopped Kit (11.4 oz.)
• Hy-Vee Garden Salad (12 oz.) *recalled last week
• Hy-Vee Avocado Ranch Chopped Kit (12.8 oz.)

The FDA says Fresh Express is the maker of the recalled salads. The products were distributed to Hy-Vee stores in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Customers can return any of these products to Hy-Vee for a full refund, or throw them away.

You may recall last week, KJAN told you Hy-Vee had recalled its Garden Salad variety for the same parasite. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened up an investigation into an outbreak linked to ALDI Little Salad Bar Brand Garden Salad from ALDI grocery stores, Hy-Vee Brand Garden Salad from Hy-Vee Grocery stores and Signature Farms Brand Garden Salad from Jewel-Osco.

The CDC says those infected will get sick within one week of becoming exposed. The symptoms include diarrhea, loss of appetite, fatigue, vomiting, body aches, headaches, fever, nausea and other flu-like symptoms.