(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Sheriff’s Office reports there were four arrests this past week. Two people were arrested Saturday:

26-year-old Gordon McKenzie Carroll, Jr., of Creston, was arrested at around 8:30-p.m. Saturday in Orient, for: OWI/1st offense; Escape from Custody, and Open Container-Driver, 21-years of age of older. Carroll, Jr. was released later that night on a $2,300 bond. His arrest followed an investigation into a vehicle that was reported to be in a ditch in the 3200 block of Henry A. Wallace Road. An Adair County Deputy located the vehicle, a Chevy pickup truck.

While transporting the subject to the Adair County Jail, the Deputy noticed Carroll was not in the back seat of the patrol vehicle, where he was placed in handcuffs. Additional units were requested to help search for the man. At the jail, a review of the cage area of the cruiser through the in-car camera, showed Carroll. Jr. managed to open the back door and got out at around 6:38-p.m. Multiple agencies responded and initiated a search of the area using a K9 and a drone. At around 8:25-p.m., the Adair County Communications Center received a 911 call about a man who was at the back of their house in the 2700 block of Adair-Union Street. Law enforcement arrived on the scene to find Carroll, Jr. standing on the front porch. He was placed by in a County patrol vehicle and transported to the jail. Carroll, Jr. told the Deputy that he was always getting in trouble, and that he just wanted to get back home.

At around 4:45-p.m., Saturday, Stuart Police arrested 38-year-old Steven Cory Brown, of Stuart, for Domestic Assault w/bodily injury-1st offense, and two counts of Child Endangerment. The charges followed a domestic disturbance investigation in Stuart. Brown was being held in the Adair County Jail on a $5,000 bond.

On Jan. 7th, 39-year-old Grant Harold Wheeler, of Stuart, was arrested by Adair County Sheriff’s Deputies on an Adair County warrant for Driving While Barred. He was taken into custody at around 7:20-p.m. and released a few hours later on a $2,000 bond.

And, on Jan. 5th, 20-year-old Tyler Nolan McVay, of Fontanelle, was arrested in Fontanelle at around 12:05-a.m., for OWI/2nd offense. He was taken into custody after a Deputy spotted a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed into Fontanelle. The Deputy lost sight of the vehicle but later located the 2003 Chevy Tahoe on a side street to the north of Highway 92. He would later find the same suspect vehicle stopped at 4th and Main in Fontanelle, where McVay was urinating in the intersection. Following standard field sobriety and breath alcohol testing (which showed a .168% level of intoxication), McVay was transported to the Adair County Jail and released about 3 hours later on a $2,000 bond.