A man from northwest Iowa was arrested after a citizen reported a stolen vehicle at around 9:48-a.m., Wednesday. According to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, 31-year-old James David Geopfert, of Rockwell City, was arrested in Anita, after he allegedly took a 2003 Ford F-150 pickup from 62180 Great River Road. Another vehicle, a 1995 Buick, was abandoned at the scene of the stolen pickup.The Buick had been reported stolen from Manson, Iowa.

The pickup was recovered undamaged a little after 10-a.m., at Murphy’s in Anita.  Geopfert was being held in the Cass County Jail on a Class-D Felony charge of Theft.  His bond was set at $5,000.