A man from Arkansas suffered minor injuries to his hand but refused medical treatment, following a rollover accident this morning, east of Atlantic. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office told KJAN News 22-year old Royce Edward Katzer, of Quitman, AR., was traveling northbound on 650th Street at around 6:41-a.m., when he swerved to avoid a deer on the road. His 2013 Honda Civic crossed the centerline of the road and went out of control before it rolled once into the west ditch, coming to rest on its wheels facing south. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $10,000. Officials say Katzer was not wearing his seat belt. No citations were issued. Atlantic Fire and Rescue, Medivac, and Atlantic Police and the Cass County Sheriff’s Office all responded to the scene.

Sheriff’s officials in Union County say a Creston man reported Thursday, that sometime after 10-p.m. Wednesday, someone unbolted the front weights off a John Deere 4055 tractor and took them while the tractor was parked in a field. The weights were valued at $1,400.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports four people were arrested on separate charges, recently. A traffic stop on Interstate 29 at around 1-a.m. today (Friday) by a Mills County Deputy, resulted in the arrest of 55-year old Thomas Edward Kirsch, of Omaha, on an active Pottawattamie County bench warrant. A traffic stop on a vehicle at around 3-a.m today (Friday), resulted in the arrest of 45-year old Christina Marie Kendrick, of Crescent. Kendrick was taken into custody on a warrant out of Nebraska for being a Fugitive from Justice. She was being held without bond in the Pott. County Jail.

At around 8-p.m. Thursday, 53-year old Donald Lee Graham, Jr., of Council Bluffs, was arrested on an active Pott. County warrant for Assault Causing Bodily Injury. His bond was set at $5,000, plus a $1,000 bond for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense.  And, at around 12:20-p.m. Thursday, 39-year old Michael Joseph Lambert, of Ralston, NE., was arrested after he crossed into Iowa while having a valid arrest warrant out of Buffalo County, Nebraska, for being a Fugitive from Justice.  Lambert was being held without bond on the warrant, and for Theft in the 1st degree as well as Providing False Information to Law Enforcement.

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — A 28-year-old man has been accused of killing two brothers who lived in Fort Dodge. Police say Tanner King, of Fort Dodge, was arrested Thursday night. Webster County court records say he’s charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one of attempted murder. He’s accused of Monday’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old Marion and 34-year-old Eldominic Rhodes. A criminal complaint says the younger man’s body was found in an alley and his older brother’s body was found in a nearby apartment parking lot. Police say King fired a shot at another man but missed.

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(Radio Iowa) – Republican Congressman Steve King says if diplomacy fails, sending the military to the border to repel a large group of asylum seekers is the only option. King says there is legislation that could be passed in congress, but he expects a confrontation at the southern border “pretty soon after the Election.”

“Send the military down and line them up shoulder-to-shoulder on the Rio Grande and if those inflatable boats come over, loaded full of illegals, you just step our military down into the water and you hold those boats off the shore and load those illegals onto U.S. boats, take them back to Mexico and then destroy those rafts,” King says. “Just poke a hole in them sink ’em right there.”

King says a soverign nation must protect its borders and enforce its immigration laws. “It looks like an invasion. It’s twice the size of Santa Anna’s army when he invaded Texas and they’re just not wearing uniforms and all of them aren’t armed, but they’re marching under their own national flags towards the border, announcing they’re going to cross into the United States and that they have a right to migrate into the United States,” King says. “And, of course, they do not.”

King says if this group of migrants get through the southern border, there will be an “endless stream” of people stetching from Central America through Mexico, aiming to enter the United States. “When you reward lawbreakers, you get more lawbreakers,” King says. “This could destroy the immigration rule of law in America if we don’t hold it now.”

King made his comments last (Thursday) night after a Plymouth County “meet and greet” in Le Mars. King is seeking a 10th term in the U.S .House this year. King’s Democratic opponent is J.D. Scholten of Sioux City.

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Police in Creston arrested a woman late Thursday morning. 33-year old Karmyn Kay Watson, of Creston, was arrested on a Violation of Protections Order charge. Watson was subsequently released from the Union County Jail on a Promise to Appear in court.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Sioux City man accused of ramming police cars on a chase that began in Nebraska has been sentenced to five more years in an Iowa prison. Woodbury County court records say 43-year-old Larry Johnson II pleaded guilty to felony eluding after prosecutors dropped an assault charge. His plea agreement says the sentence must be served after the remainder of his 15-year sentence for forgery. He was on parole when the chase occurred July 6.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a Nebraska trooper tried to stop Johnson’s pickup truck being pursued by South Sioux City police. Officials say the truck rammed the trooper’s car before crossing into Iowa.
Officials say the truck again rammed both the trooper’s car and a sheriff’s vehicle before becoming stuck on a median.

His Nebraska case is pending.

Atlantic Fire and Rescue were called at around 6:44-a.m. today to a rollover accident at 650th and Galveston Road, just east of Atlantic. One person was said to have suffered some cuts and abrasions to their hand. No other information is currently available.