The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports a traffic stop on Interstate 80 at around 10-a.m. last Wednesday on a speeding SUV, resulted in the arrest of a woman from California, on drug charges. 26-year old Saundra Ashley Hawkins, of Marysville, CA, was taken into custody for a Controlled Substance Violation, after 15-pounds of marijuana was found in the vehicle.

At around 11:20-p.m. Sunday, a man was arrested on a Pottawattamie County warrant for Violation of Probation, after a deputy saw him walking in the middle of Railroad Highway, near Yellow Road. When the deputy activated his patrol vehicle’s lights to check on the man, he walked to the patrol vehicle and identified himself as 46-year old Bryan Douglas Charles, of Omaha. Charles said he was lost and trying to find the homeless shelter after having left a friends’ house on Franklin Avenue, in Council Bluffs. Pott. County Dispatch confirmed Charles was wanted on a warrant. He was transported to the Pott. County Jail and booked-in.

And, 29-year old Rachel Linn Nielsen, of Omaha, was arrested Monday afternoon in Underwood, on warrants for Violation of Probation, Operating a motor vehicle without owners consent, and Failure to Appear in court on a 2nd Degree Theft charge.  Nielsen was booked-in the Pott. County Jail.