(Red Oak, Iowa) – A traffic stop at around 11:15-p.m. Saturday, north of Red Oak, resulted in the arrest of a man from Council Bluffs. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 54-year-old David Michael Benkis was arrested on a Felony warrant out of Omaha, for Possession of a Dangerous Drug. Benkis was transported to the Montgomery County Jail. While at the jail, Deputies discovered Benkis was hiding a controlled substance (Methamphetamine) in his pants.

He was booked into the jail for bringing contraband into a correctional facility – A Class D Felony. Benkis remained in the jail while awaiting extradition to Omaha on his warrant.