Sheriff’s officials in Pottawattamie County report 62-year old Charles Roger Berner, Jr., appeared at the sheriff’s office Thursday morning, to turn himself-in. Berner was wanted on a Pott. County warrant for Criminal Trespass/1st offense. He was transported to the jail and turned over to Corrections Staff. Thursday afternoon, 38-year old Robert Edward Benedict, of Council Bluffs, who was an inmate at the Pott. County Jail, was presented with a warrant out of Nebraska, for being a Fugitive from Justice. Benedict was then returned to his cell. And, 30-year old Jeffrey Earl Ratliff, of Council Bluffs, who was also being held in the jail, was presented with a warrant out of Council Bluffs, for Violation of Parole.

And, 39-year old Bobby Lewis Burr, Jr. of Shenandoah, was transported from the Page County Jail to the Pott. County Jail, Thursday. Burr was wanted on a Pott. County warrant for Domestic Abuse Assault causing injury/1st offense. He was booked into the Pott. County Jail and held on a $1,000 bond.

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BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Another person has been charged with killing a 26-year-old man in southeast Iowa. Authorities say 30-year-old Caesar “CJ” Davison, of Chicago, was served Thursday with an Iowa murder warrant as he was returned from Illinois. He’d been held in Illinois for a parole violation, and he denied while being questioned there that he was involved in the Iowa slaying.

Prosecutors say Davison conspired with four other people to kill Demarcus “Peanut” Chew, who was fatally shot in a car outside his mother’s Burlington apartment on Sept. 10, 2017. One of them, Antoine Spann, pleaded guilty last month and was sentenced to 20 years in prison after making a deal with prosecutors. Spann’s plea agreement says he must testify against any others charged in the slaying.

Atlantic Police Chief Dave Erickson today (Friday), reports three recent arrests. On Wednesday, 35-year old Matthew J. Bruns, of Atlantic, was arrested for Harassment in the 1st Degree. And there were two arrests March 20th: 32-year old Christopher Castillo, of Atlantic, was arrested for Violation of a No Contact Order, and 39-year old Melissa Wheeler, of Atlantic, was arrested on a warrant for Violation of Probation.

All three subjects were booked into the Cass County Jail. Castillo and Bruns remained in the Cass County Jail as of the latest report. Wheeler was subsequently released from custody.

Police in Creston report a man wanted on a warrant for Forgery (Unlawful use of credit cards & Identity Theft), was arrested Thursday evening. 44-year old Matthew Lee Brummett, of Creston, was taken into custody at the Union County Law Enforcement Center at around 6:45-p.m., and was being held on a $10,000 bond.

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WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Closing arguments have been scheduled for Monday in the fourth Iowa trial of an Illinois man accused of killing a 9-year-old girl in 1990. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the defense rested its case for 57-year-old Stanley Liggins on Thursday in Black Hawk County District Court in Waterloo. Jurors were dismissed until Monday.

He’s charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jennifer Lewis, of Rock Island, Illinois. Her burned remains were found in September 1990 near a school in neighboring Davenport, Iowa, which is just across the Mississippi River.

Liggins has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison twice in the death of Lewis. Both convictions were overturned. His third trial was moved to Black Hawk County because of extensive pretrial publicity in Scott County. It ended in a mistrial in September 2018 because jurors couldn’t reach a verdict.

Medivac Ambulance and Atlantic Fire & Rescue were dispatched at around 6:53-a.m. to a two-vehicle accident at 11th and Chestnut Street. (Update 6:55: Atlantic Police advised no one complained of injuries and, contrary to initial reports, no one was trapped.) Additional details are currently not available.

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The flood-damaged U.S. Air Force base south of Omaha has reopened its runway to aircraft. The Omaha World-Herald reports that some of the nine aircraft flown from Offutt Air Force Base to other bases returned Thursday, once it was determined that the flooding didn’t damage the runway and taxiways. Other aircraft had been towed to higher ground.

Earlier this month Missouri River floodwaters breached one levee and overtopped another near the sprawling complex, flooding the southeastern third. The water inundated nearly 80 buildings and covered more than a quarter of the runway. On Wednesday Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said the Air Force needs $4.9 billion in extra funding over the next three years to rebuild and repair Offutt and Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, which sustained hurricane damage last fall.

JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — The adjutant general of the Iowa National Guard has announced his plans for retirement. A National Guard news release says Maj. Gen. Tim Orr intends to step down effective May 1 after 10 years as the Iowa Guard’s commander. He was named to the post by then Gov. Chet Culver in March 2009. Brig. Gen. Stephen Osborn will serve as the interim adjutant general.

Brig. Gen. Osborn

Maj. Gen. Tim Orr

Orr enlisted in the Iowa Army National Guard in 1978 while still a senior at Boone High School and rose through the ranks.