Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports that at a little before 9-p.m. Saturday, officers arrested on numerous charges, 45-year old Jess Scott Larson, of rural Clarinda. Larson faces charges that include: felony possession of methamphetamine; introduction of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) on the premises of a correctional facility (The Page County Jail), and theft in the fifth degree by exercising control over stolen property.

Larson was taken into custody at 16^th at Boundary Streets, following a shoplifting complaint officers were investigating, after being summoned to the Hy-Vee Food Store. He was arrested without incident and was  being held at the Page County Jail on $10,300 bond.

Reports concerning the incident have been submitted to the office of Page County Attorney Carl M. Sonksen for review regarding the filing of formal charges.