The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Department reports a traffic stop 12:36-p.m. Tuesday at Old Lincoln Highway and Mynster Springs Road, resulted in the driver being arrested on a drug charge. A license plate check of the 1998 Dodge Avenger showed the vehicles’ plates were stolen out of Council Bluffs. A records check of the driver, 44-year old Michelle Renee Berry, of Council Bluffs, indicated she was wanted on a Council Bluffs P.D. warrant for Possession of a Controlled Substance. Berry was arrested and brought to the Pott. County Jail.

A traffic stop Wednesday evening on a vehicle with a registration violation, resulted in the arrest of 33-year old Amy Conant, of Missouri Valley. She faces charges that include Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (a multi-colored marijuana pipe with residue), and OWI/2nd offense. Conant was cited at the scene and released.

A woman from Oakland was cited for Theft in the 5th Degree, Wednesday night. 20-year old Nicole Paige Myers allegedly stole a $15.49 bottle of Jose Cuervo margarita mix alcohol, from the SuperFoods, in Avoca. She was given her citation and released.

The Pott. County Sheriff’s Office says a 16-year old male from Treynor and a 14-year old male from Council Bluffs, were arrested Wednesday night, for damaging the garage door, front siding, and concrete of a residence in Underwood. The teens were released on citations. The juveniles, who were not identified, were referred to Juvenile Court.

A man from Hancock was arrested Thursday morning, for allegedly breaking into The Station bar, in Hancock. 28-year old Andrew Heath was taken into custody at around 10-a.m., for causing $3,000 damage to two front windows and a door on the property. Heath was charged with Burglary/Breaking and Entering, Criminal Mischief in the 2nd Degree, and 5th Degree Theft. He was also arrested on warrant for Violation of Probation.

And, there were two men being held in the Pottawattamie County Jail who face additional charges. 37-year old John Joseph Burghardt, Jr., of Omaha, was presented with a warrant out of Nebraska, Thursday, for being a Fugitive from Justice. And, 23-year old Tyler David Miell, of Council Bluffs, was presented Tuesday with two warrants out of Council Bluffs, for 2 counts of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, False reports and 5th Degree Theft. Both men were read their warrants and returned to the custody of jail staff.

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TOLEDO, Iowa (AP) — A man convicted of killing a woman whose body has never been found has been given 50 years in an Iowa prison.Court records say 51-year-old Tait Purk was sentenced Thursday. In December a judge found him guilty of second-degree murder for killing Cora Okonski nearly 18 years ago.

In May a jury convicted Purk of murder, but a judge found the verdict wasn’t backed by evidence.Okonski disappeared in April 16, 2000, while she was living with Purk in Tama. Purk had told authorities she had left to buy cigarettes and never returned.

A former fellow inmate of Purk’s testified that Purk told him he had killed his fiancee during an argument, kept her body in a bathroom closet overnight and then buried her.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former softball coach has been given 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in Council Bluffs. Court records say John Osborn was sentenced Thursday. He was convicted Dec. 22 of four counts of sexual abuse. It was Osborn’s second trial on the charges. He’d been convicted in spring 2015, but a judge ordered a new trial when new evidence surfaced before Osborn could be sentenced. The second trial was delayed by legal wrangling. His attorney says Osborn intends to appeal.

Council Bluffs police say Osborn and the girl engaged in sex acts when the girl stayed at Osborn’s house in July 2014 for a sleepover with his daughter.

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EAGLE GROVE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities have punished a north-central Iowa egg facility for allowing wastewater to reach a creek. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that the Department of Natural Resources said Daybreak Foods Inc. must pay an administrative penalty of $5,500.

The department says a heavy rain in August washed a recent field application of wastewater into the creek near the facility in rural Eagle Grove. The company has a permit to spread the wastewater but can’t let it run into surface waters.

Annoyed by calls on your cell phone from a familiar-looking number –but it winds up being a telemarketer? State Senator Ken Rozenboom is, too. “Because I’m in the senate and I’d like to respond to constituents, I tend to answer the phone but increasingly, of course, they’re telemarketing calls,” Rozenboom says. “This Monday was the last straw for me.”

Rozenboom got a call with a 641 area code and a 295 prefix, indicating it was a call from someone in his hometown of Oskaloosa. “I answered it, listened the sales spiel on credit cards, disconnected, called the number back immediately,” Rozenboom says. “This nice lady says: ‘Good morning.’ And I’m kind of caught off guard ’cause I didn’t expect an answer and I said: ‘I’m sorry, ma’am. I’m Ken Rozenboom and I just got a telemarketing call from this number,’ and she said: ‘Oh, I get those all the time. I’m so sick of it!” And then I said: ‘Well, the rest of the story is I’m Senator Ken Rozenboom. I’m actually going to drop a bill in the Iowa Senate today to try to get away from this fraudulent use of peopel’s phone numbers.”

It’s against the federal “Truth in Caller ID Act” to make such misrepresentations, but the practice is widespread and is now known as spoofing. Rozenboom is sponsoring legislation that makes it a crime to use “false or misleading” numbers when making calls to Iowans. Rozenboom says officials in the Iowa attorney general’s office have told him it could be another legal tool for going after telemarketers preying on — and annoying — Iowans. “Whether it’ll actually make a difference or not I think is a matter of technology,” Rozenboom says. “I sure hope it does.”

If the bill becomes law, the fine would be 40-thousand dollars PER call. The bill cleared an Iowa Senate subcommittee Thursday. Rozenboom says as he walked out of that subcommittee meeting, his phone cell phone rang. It was another one of THOSE calls.

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NORTHWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A felony charge has been dropped against a man accused of punching and damaging a northern Iowa casino gambling machine. Police had charged 55-year-old Dion King with felony criminal mischief. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports that Worth County Attorney Jeffrey Greve dropped the case Tuesday after King paid for the damage to the machine. Authorities say King admitted punching the machine out of frustration.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republicans appear united in proposing about $32 million in new funding toward the state’s roughly $3.2 billion K-12 education budget. A GOP-controlled Senate education committee voted 9-6 Thursday for the 1 percent increase. The vote comes one day after the education committee in the Republican-majority House approved a similar measure. The funding is expected to be finalized next week. The amount is less than the $54 million increase proposed recently by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa prison officials say the flu has contributed to the death of a 29-year-old inmate. The Iowa Department of Corrections says Rashod Develt Aldridge died Thursday morning at an Iowa City hospital. His cause of death is listed as cardiac arrest, but officials say he had been in the hospital for treatment of complications from a chronic disease and the flu. Aldridge was serving a 20-year sentence for the March 2015 stabbing death of his father, 50-year-old Roosevelt Aldridge.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A key Iowa lawmaker says there’s not enough support to advance a House measure that seeks to reinstate the death penalty in Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports that Public Safety Committee Chairman Rep. Clel Baudler, R-Greenfield, says there aren’t enough votes in the committee to advance the bill. The proposal would allow those convicted of first-degree murder to be executed by lethal injection. Iowa abolished the death penalty in 1965.

Police in Council Bluffs, late Thursday afternoon released more information with regard to an Officer involved shooting, but the names of those involved were being withheld until all parties can be formally interviewed. The person who was shot by a CBPD Officer remains hospitalized in stable condition, with non-life threatening injuries.

As we reported earlier, Council Bluffs Police and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), were conducting a joint investigation into an officer-involved shooting that occurred at around 3-a.m. Thursday, in the parking lot of a convenience store at 611 East Broadway.

A preliminary investigation indicates that a Council Bluffs police officer, while responding to a call of suspicious vehicle on the business lot, discharged his firearm while attempting to take the driver  of the car into custody.

After being shot, the driver of the car sped off the lot and crashed, resulting in the car flipping onto its roof.  The driver then fled the wrecked vehicle on foot and was apprehended after a short foot chase. The injured driver was transported by ambulance to a metro area hospital for treatment.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of 22-year-old Bryson Lee Powell of Red Oak on Thursday at 3:50pm. Powell was arrested on a Montgomery County Bench Warrant for Contempt- Resist Order or Process of District Court. Powell was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 cash bond.