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(Update) Man arrested in connection with Sunday attack in Council Bluffs

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July 30th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

(Update) – In an update to our earlier reports, Police in Council Bluffs have made an arrest in connection with an incident that took place Sunday afternoon. 26-year old Casey Dean Mazanares, of Council Bluffs, was arrested without incident and booked into the Pottawattamie County Jail, on a charge of Willful Injury/Serious Injury.

Earlier, Police in Council Bluffs said that on Sunday that a transient man was attacked by another transient Sunday afternoon, who fled the scene. Officers were called at around 3-p.m. to assist the medics at the Joshua House (1435 N 15th St). When officers arrived with medics they located a victim, 57-year old Douglas E. McCall, of Council Bluffs, who was bleeding from his head and hands.
McCall was transported to Jennie Edmundson Hospital and treated for his injuries. The man told police he was sitting in a chair in the 1700 block of N. 15th Street in a wooded area when the suspect attacked him with a sharp object. The suspect fled the scene prior to officers’ arrival.

None of McCall’s injuries appeared to have been life threatening.