(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Department has released a report on arrests. It’s been more than a month since the department released its last report. In their report issued Tuesday (Today), authorities said a man from Omaha was arrested Monday afternoon, following a welfare check at a residence in rural Crescent. The reporting party advised authorities a man showed up at his residence and said he had been shot at. The subject was shaken up but not injured. Upon further investigation, Pott. County Deputies arrested 27-year-old Simon Tongyik Chuar on charges that include Conspiracy with intent to deliver marijuana, Conveyance of contraband in or on the grounds of a correctional facility, and possession of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon. He remains in the Pott. County Jail on a total of $15,000 bond.

A traffic stop at around 12-a.m., Monday, resulted in the arrest of 41-year-old Matthew Robert Strunk. The traffic stop took place on I-80 eastbound at mile marker 34, after a trucker advised he was following a car that was speeding up and slowing down on multiple occasions. The driver was also unable to maintain their lane, and traveled onto the rumble strips. After a Pott. County Deputy caught up with Strunk and pulled him over and began an investigation, Strunk was taken into custody for OWI/3rd or subsequent offense.

And, at around 12:40-p.m., Monday, an inmate at the Pottawattamie County Jail in Council Bluffs, 31-year Reginald Akeem Jackson, of Council Bluffs, was charged with Criminal Mischief in the 4th degree, after he admitted to damaging a sprinkler head in a jail cell. Jackson claimed he did it because he was nervous about going to court and “That’s how he expressed himself.” Damage to the sprinkler head was estimated at approximately $493.

And, an inmate at the Douglas County, Nebraska Jail was transported to Pott. County, via authority of a State of Iowa felony warrant. 32-year-old Bret M. Thomas was booked into the Pott. County Jail.