(Mount Ayr, Iowa) – Officials with the Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office said Friday, a man wanted on a warrant out of Polk County for a Parole Violation, was arrested late Thursday morning in Kellerton. Authorities say 49-year-old John Anthony Neely, of Des Moines, was taken into custody at around 11:30-a.m. Thursday, by Ringgold County Sheriff’s deputies and the Fifth District of the Iowa Department of Corrections Task Force.

Neely was arrested at 302 Adams Street in Kellerton, after a tip came into the Sheriff’s Office that he was possibly staying there. After a search was conducted, Neely was found hiding in a closet.

Neely was transported back to the Polk County Jail.