Adair County Sheriff Vandewater, Monday night, released a report on activity dating back to May 18th. On Sunday, May 22nd, 27-year-old Amanda Jo Herring, of Atlantic, was arrested at around 12:13-a.m. by police in Adair, for Interference with Official Acts, following a traffic stop. She was arrested after becoming upset at hearing the vehicle she was a passenger in, would be impounded because the driver had no insurance. She told police she wouldn’t let that happen, and would go with the vehicle. She then attempted to roll the window up. She was removed from the vehicle without injury, and placed under arrest. She was cited and released from the scene.

On May 20th at around 5:30-p.m., police in Greenfield arrested 40-year-old Donna Marie Ott, of Des Moines, for Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense, after allegedly placing her hands around her grandmother’s throat and pushed her down. She was released that same evening on her own recognizance.

Sheriff Vandewater says at around 5:30-p.m. on May 19th, Greenfield Police arrested 29-year-old Veronica Viola Lee Elwood, of Greenfield, for Criminal Mischief in the 4th Degree, for allegedly using a blunt object to puncture the tires on two vehicles in the Greenfield Fareway Store parking lot, causing damage The vehicles were owned by the manager and a Fareway employee. The acts were caught on surveillance video. Elwood was released the next day from the Adair County Jail, on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.

And, on May 18th, at around 8:11-a.m., 20-year-old Jordan Benjamin Andrus, of West Des Moines, was arrested in Adair County on a Clive Police Department warrant. He was turned over to the Clive P-D. At around 2:10-p.m., 46-year old Mindy Jo Knapp, of Perry, was arrested by Stuart Police, for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense, Possession of a Controlled substance/Methamphetamine – 2nd or subsequent offense (she had a previous conviction in 1998 from Greene County), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Knapp was taken into custody at a motel in Stuart, following the execution of a search warrant, during which a purse was located in a shared bathroom of a motel room.

The purse contained two clear plastic baggies of meth, two containers of marijuana, two torches, and a glass pipe. Knapp was cited for the offenses and released at the scene.