Sioux City, Iowa — The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa reports a western Iowa man was sentenced to federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender in two states. 44-year-old Tyrone Haskell Tyndall, of Onawa, was sentenced to slightly more than two-years behind bars after admitting he failed to register with the Monona County Sheriff’s Office. He’d been convicted in 2004 of sexually abusing a child in Nebraska. Tyndall also admitted failing to register in Nebraska where he also lived from 2018 to 2019.

Tyndall admitted to violating his requirement to register as a sex offender in Iowa and Nebraska from July 2018 to August 2019, even though he lived in both states during this timeframe. Tyndall was sentenced in Sioux City by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Tyndall was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a 5-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

Tyndall is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Kevin Fletcher and Ron Timmons and investigated by the United States Marshals Service.

(Radio Iowa) Democrats are warning about the potential spread of Covid-19 in the Iowa Statehouse this week as the 2021 legislative session gets underway. Senator Joe Bolkcom, a Democrat from Iowa City, is accusing Republican leaders of acting like Covid is no big deal. “Your lame reasoning about not being able to require legislators to wear masks is a joke,” Bolkcom said. “I’m mandated to wear this tie and this jacket to be able to stand at this microphone and speak.”

The top G-O-P leaders in the legislature say they are strongly encouraging lawmakers to wear masks when they can’t socially distance, but they say the Constitution doesn’t give them the power to force elected officials to cover their faces. Democrats have tried, but failed this week to get their Republican colleagues to agree to mask mandates in committee rooms. And Bolkcom singled out G-O-P leadership for allowing a few hundred people who were not wearing face coverings to protest inside the statehouse Monday. “You’re making the Tyson managers look like they had their act together,” Bolkcom said.

Bolkcom also blasted President Trump and Governor Reynolds during a speech on the Senate floor yesterday (Wednesday). A spokesman for Governor Reynolds says the governor has taken a balanced approach to the pandemic that has protected the lives and livelihoods of Iowans.

(Radio Iowa) – Democratic Congressman Cindy Axne of West Des Moines says those responsible for last week’s insurrection in the U.S. Capitol must be held accountable and that’s why she voted to impeach President Trump. “No one is above the law,” Axne says. Axne says she was encouraged that House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney and other nine other House Republicans supported impeachment. “The vast majority of folks know what we witnesses last week was absolutely unacceptable,” Axne says.

Axne calls Trump the rhetorical “ring leader” of the riot. “What message do we send to our children on an accountability perspective if we say we’re not going to hold the person who was responsible for inciting this responsible?” Axne asked rhetorically.

The three REPUBLICANS from Iowa who serve in the U.S. House said it’s time for the country to unify and they voted against the articles of impeachment against Trump. Trump issued a written statement yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, citing reports of demonstrations in coming days and saying there must be no violence. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, the two Iowa Republicans who serve in the U.S. Senate, have not announced how they plan to vote after the Senate holds an impeachment trial.