The Glenwood Police Department reports nine people were arrested from July 4th through the 18th:

• 38-year-old Julian Brown, of Omaha, was arrested on the 18th for Possession of a Controlled Substance (PCS), with bond set at $2,000, and for being a Fugitive from Justice, for which there is no bond.
• 25-year-old Blake Holland, of Glenwood, was arrested July 16th, for PCS. Bond was set at $1,000.
• On July 15th, 38-year-old Jared Newman, of Glenwood, was arrested on a Pottawattamie County warrant for Probation Violation, with bond set at $2,000.
• 39-year-old Jeffrey Morrical, of Los Angeles, CA was arrested July 11th, for OWI/1st offense. Bond $1,000
• On the 10th, 37-year-old Heath Holmes, of Glenwood, was arrested by Glenwood Police, for OWI/1st offense and Child Endangerment. Bond $3,000. And, 53-year-old Brenda Lang, of Glenwood, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. (Bond $1,000)
• On July 7th, 29-year-old Kaylena Pavelka, of Glenwood, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault. (Bond $300)
• On the 6th, officers arrested 32-year-old Heather Beaman, of Glenwood on a Mills County warrant for Criminal Mischief. (Bond $300)
• and, on July 4th, 19-year-old Dominick Maddocks-Mills, of Glenwood, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. (Bond $1,000)

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Tuesday morning, approved the final schedule for County employees who wish to take paid time off during FY2022. Board Chair Steve Baier.

The Board had previously discussed doing away with President’s Day, but only officially did so during their meeting Tuesday. Board member Steve Green made the motion…

The following holidays were officially approved as paid time-off:

Independence Day
Labor Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving, and the day after Thanksgiving
Christmas (which is observed December 24th)
New Year’s day (observed on Friday, December 31)
and Memorial Day.
And as Green mentioned, employees will also get two personal days per year, in lieu of President’s Day. In other business, during his report to the Board, Cass County Engineer Trent Wolken updated the status of three bridge projects.

He said crews closed bridge #208 on Indian Creek, Monday, one-half mile north of Highway 6. It will be replaced with a concrete box culvert.

Sheriff’s officials in Mills County report four recent arrests. Monday night, 47-year-old Jerry Lee Dawson, of Silver City, was arrested on a warrant for Failure to Appear (FTA) on a Driving While Barred, charge. His bond was set at $2,000. Monday afternoon, 29-year-old Jamilla Marier Havrum, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the jail in Shelby County, on a warrant for FTA on a Possession of a Controlled Substance charge. Her bond was also set at $2,000.

And, there were two arrests July 14th in Mills County: 32-year-old Tera Lee McAtee, of Glenwood, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Jail,on a warrant for FTA, with bond set at $2,000. 36-year-old Has Ger Htoo, of Omaha, was arrested at the Mills County Jail for being a Fugitive from Justice. He was being held without bond.

Members of the Audubon School Board, Monday evening, voted to appoint a familiar face to fill a vacated Board position. Superintendent Eric Trager says they appointed and swore-in Anne Miller to fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Joni Madsen, who retired from the Board to accept a teaching position within the district. With regard to Miller…

A Special Election will be held in Sept. to ask the voters if Miller should serve the remainder of the term, or if it should be on the ballot in November, as well. In other business, the Audubon School Board approved the Plans, Specifications and Form of Contract for the District’s Renovation Projects.

The Board also approved Ahlers Cooney as Board and District Legal Counsel; Courtney Walter & Paul Lynch as Equity Coordinators; Cass Muzney as Asbestos Manager; Level I & Level II Investigators (Level 1 – Eric Trager; Quentin Stanerson; Sam Graeve & Jill Hermansen; Level II – Coby Gust).

They also passed a Resolution approving the Revenue Purpose Statement (RPS); Ordering an Election on an RPS to authorize expenditures from revenue received from the State Secure and Advanced Vision for Education (SAVE) Fund.

(Radio Iowa) – A man has been sentenced to nearly 29 years in prison for importing meth from Mexico and distributing it in the Waterloo area. Thirty-four-year-old Travis Charles Werkmeister of Waterloo — who goes by the nickname “Cheese” — pleaded guilty in February to a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Undercover agents bought meth at Werkmeister’s house in Waterloo in 2018. In 2019, investigators tapped Wekmeister’s phone and, according to a news release from the U-S attorney’s office, they were able to intercept thousands of calls and messages between Werkmeister and others in a drug-distribution organization, including the head of the group who’s based in Mexico.

Werkmeister is one of 13 people arrested a year ago after a dozen locations in Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Roland and Marshalltown were searched.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is calling on the Biden administration to take action on the nation’s drug overdose deaths which, according to the Centers for Disease Control, hit a new record high in 2020. “93,000 people died of opioid overdoses last year,” Grassley says. “That’s a 30% increase from the previous year, so it’s a real problem.” Grassley, a Republican, says the administration “isn’t serious” about working with Congress to find solutions to the massive amounts of extremely lethal drugs that are being smuggled into the U-S.  “China is sending its fentanyl to Mexico and it’s coming across the border, just like all the illegal aliens are coming across the border and in historically high numbers,” Grassley says. “There’s enough fentanyl coming into the country to kill everybody in the United States ten times over.”

Grassley is scheduled to take part in a Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control hearing this (Tuesday) afternoon at 1:30/Central entitled, “The Federal Response to the Drug Overdose Epidemic.” He says it’s very difficult to write legislation that specifies what sorts of drugs need to be more closely regulated or banned. “Let’s say we make a drug illegal today. Through chemical components, they can change it just a little bit and the next day it can be legal,” Grassley says. “We need to make sure that the analog is part of the program so we can outlaw any deviation from what you might call pure fentanyl.”

As bad as the overdose death rates are, Grassley says they will likely continue to rise without immediate intervention by the president and Congress. He’s calling on Biden to create “a coordinated national strategy” to address the “overdose crisis.”

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa native who’s been president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests — known as “SNAP” — is stepping down from the post. Tim Lennon has been SNAP’s president for the past three years and a part of the group’s board of directors for a decade. “During that time I’ve seen a dramatic increase in acceptance, acknowledgement of how widespread sexual abuse is within society,” Lennon says. “We have found that even with sacred institutions, like the Catholic Church, that sexual abuse is going on by clergy and that the hierarchy was covering it up.”

Lennon was abused by a parish priest in Sioux City when he was 12 years old. Lennon says after he publicly disclosed the abuse five decades later, 15 of his classmates came forward with similar accounts.  “So getting public awareness and knowledge is very, very important to reaching those who are suffering in silence,” Lennon says. Lennon credits an investigation by Pennsylvania’s attorney general with getting the Catholic Church to admit years of wrongdoing. In February of 2019, the Sioux City Diocese released a list of 28 priests who had been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors. “The only reason that they’ve come forward with the list was they were compelled to do by public outrage,” Lennon says. “After the Pennsylvania grand jury investigated, they found 300 other clergy and over a thousand victims, so this compelled the Sioux City Diocese and other dioceses to release names.”

Iowa lawmakers changed state law this year, removing time limits for filing criminal charges against a person accused of sexually abusing a child. Lennon, who lives in Tucson, Arizona, has lobbied at the Iowa Capitol for that change, but he also wants to see the time frame changed for victims who want to file a civil lawsuit against someone who abused them as a child. The so-called statute of limitations requires child sex abuse victims to file lawsuits seeking damages before their 33rd birthday.

Officials with the Atlantic Police Department, today (Tuesday), said there were eight arrests from June 27th through July 17th, and one person cited. Four people were arrested for Disorderly Conduct:

• 42-year-old Monte Casteel, of Atlantic, was arrested June 27th
• 20-year-old JR Berdon, 33-year-old James Erickson, and 28-year-old Renson Berdon, all of Atlantic, were arrested July 5th.

Atlantic Police arrested 39-year-old Jasper Daniel, of Atlantic, on July 17th. He was charged with Driving While License Barred. On July 15th, 21-year-old Kyle Confere, of Atlantic, was arrested on a Cass County warrant for Interference with Official Acts. On July 12th, 45-year-old Amanda Bashor, of Atlantic, was arrested for Public Intoxication. June 30th, Atlantic Police arrested 54-year-old Bryan Westphalen, of Atlantic, for Domestic Abuse Assault.

And, on July 11th, 29-year-old Devin Gardner, of Atlantic, was cited for Driving While Barred. He was released at the scene with his citation. All of the other subjects mentioned were booked into the Cass County Jail and later released.

(Griswold, Iowa) – Members of the Griswold School Board met Monday evening and discussed the number of open positions that still remain within the District. Superintendent Dave Henrichs reports that includes the need for an elementary classroom teacher.

He also spoke with the Board about redistricting, and how that might affect the Board makeup.

He says any changes should not impact the upcoming November elections, but it would likely affect future elections if there are boundary changes. Dave Henrichs said also, the Board approved the resignation of Custodian Reed Porter, Patty Jipsen as Route Bus Driver/MS-HS Paraeducator. They also approved some new hires….

Henrichs says the Board voted to re-appoint Dan Rold as Business Manager/Treasurer, Hannah Bierbaum as Board Secretary, and George Blazek ,with Frank, Sextro & Blazek, PLC., in Denison, as the District’s Attorney.

The 8:05-a.m. broadcast News w/Ric Hanson.

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