Two people were arrested on separate OWI charges in Audubon County over the Thanksgiving Holiday, and a Cass County woman was arrested on a drug charge. The Sheriff’s Department reports 23-year old Masie Sheryl Williams, of Atlantic, was arrested at around 6-p.m. Saturday, on a charge of Possession of Meth within 1,000-feet of a public park. Her arrest stems from an investigation into an incident in the 500 block of Pacific Avenue, in Audubon. Williams was seen by the magistrate and released with a preliminary hearing set for Dec. 14th. She was later transported to Cass County where Williams was wanted on an outstanding warrant.

On Nov. 23rd. Audubon County Deputies – with assistance from the Iowa State Patrol — arrested 29-year old Casey Steven Bolick, of Gray.  Bolick was taken into custody for OWI/3rd offense and Open Container, following a traffic stop. He was brought to the Audubon County Jail, posted bond, and was released. He’s scheduled to appear for his preliminary hearing, on Nov. 30th. And, on Saturday, 18-year old Jacob Arnold Soll, of Audubon, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, and stopping on the traveled portion of the roadway. Soll was later released after appearing before a magistrate. His preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 14th.

A man from Creston reported to the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Friday afternoon, that sometime between Nov. 10th and 24th, someone cut the lock on his storage unit in the 300 block of Industrial Parkway, in Creston. Stolen from the shed were tools and other building materials. The loss was estimated at $500.

A man from Nebraska was arrested for OWI/1st offense after he was pulled over for speeding in Pottawattamie County. The Sheriff’s Office reports at around 1:25-a.m. Thursday, a deputy clocked a 2016 Ford Fusion traveling east on Highway 92 at 121 miles per hour while it was passing a vehicle in a 55 zone. The driver, 24-year old Deven M. Tatum, of Ralston, NE., was arrested without further incident.

Pott. County authorities said also, an arrest warrant for 25-year old George Joseph Elliott, of Council Bluffs, was issued Thursday, after he allegedly slashed two tires on his ex-girlfriend’s car. Damage from the incident amounted to $350.

A traffic stop for speeding and a near collision with a law enforcement vehicle Friday night, resulted in the arrest of a Neola man. Authorities say a deputy on patrol observed a 2003 Hyundai traveling north toward his location, at 61 mph in a 55 zone. The vehicle nearly side-swiped the patrol vehicle before a traffic stop was conducted. The deputy said he could smell alcohol coming from inside the suspect vehicle, and as he approached it, noticed several containers of alcoholic beverages inside. The driver, 48-year old Richard Joseph Tiarks, of Neola, was arrested for OWI/1st offense.

At around 12:20-a.m. Saturday, Pott. County Deputies arrested 26-year old Bailey Elizabeth Kimball, of Treynor, for OWI/1st offense, after her vehicle was stopped for speeding. Kimball allegedly displayed cues of impaired driving and was asked, but refused to consent to standard Field Sobriety Tests. She also refused a preliminary breath test and to provide a sample to a similar device a short time later.

Two juveniles from Council Bluffs were cited into court, Saturday afternoon, after an incident of trespassing was reported. The incident happened at around 3-p.m., after an intrusion alarm sounded at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) site on 240th Street, in Pott. County. The two 15-year old’s admitted they had climbed a fence and going inside an unlocked structure. They were subsequently turned over to their parents.

Two people were arrested Saturday afternoon in Pott. County, following a traffic stop on a vehicle with stolen license plates. Two occupants of the vehicle, 24-year old Erika Lynn Walling, and 37-year old Kiley Ray Kennedy, both of Council Bluffs, were arrested. Walling was charged with Theft in the 5th Degree (Theft from a motor vehicle), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Kennedy was charged with Driving While License Suspended.

During an ongoing investigation in connection to the November 25th arrests of 37-year old Joshua Lanning, of South Sioux City, Nebraska, and 49-year old Jerry Bossow, of Grain Valley, Missouri, deputies with the Fremont County K9 Unit discovered stolen items and a meth lab in a campground near Bartlett, Iowa. Deputies discovered a 2006 Arctic Cat ATV reported stolen out of South Sioux City, Nebraska on Nov. 22nd, and a 2015 Keystone camper. The owner was contacted and it was also found to be stolen out of Blue Springs, Missouri. Deputies discovered several other items believed to be stolen as well as items used to manufacture methamphetamine.

(Left) Bossow & Lanning (right)

Both men had been taken into custody following a traffic stop on Interstate 29 southbound, near mile marker 8 early Saturday morning, after the Fremont County K9 Unit conducted a search, during which methamphetamine and marijuana were found. The vehicle the suspects were in, was reported stolen out of Missouri. The license plates on the trailer being hauled by the stolen vehicle, had also reported stolen. Both men were initially arrested for the stolen property and drugs. Lanning’s bond was set at $6,000, while the bond for Bossow was set at $12,000. He was also being held on a Parole Violation warrant out of Missouri.

Bossow and Lanning, who were already in custody from a November 25th arrest, are now facing additional charges. Both have been charged with two counts of Possession of drug precursors with the intent to manufacture, one count of manufacturing methamphetamine under 5 grams, Theft 1st Degree and Theft 2nd Degree. The men continue to be held at the Fremont County Jail.

The Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement assisted the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office with the investigation.

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A new study finds Iowa children face more Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACEs than kids in many other states. ACEs might include the death of a parent, being a victim of violence, or living with someone with a drug or alcohol problem. Martha Davis, a senior program officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, says ACEs can have a far-reaching impact. “They have implications for schools, for families and communities, for health care systems,” Davis says. “What it says is, we need to all be thinking about what are the policies that can help families raise healthy children and how can we support parents to be those consistent people in the lives of their kids and how do we reduce the impact of trauma.”

The report found around 38-percent of children nationwide had at least one adverse childhood experience, while the rate is almost 44-percent for Iowa children. Twenty-percent of Iowa children had two or more ACEs.  “We know kids are resilient, we know kids can thrive and survive but it take collective action to do that and I think that’s what we make of these numbers,” Davis says. “They’re very high.”

ACEs can have serious, long-term impacts on a child’s health and well-being, Davis says, by contributing to high levels of toxic stress that derail healthy physical, social and emotional development. ACEs can increase the long-term risk for smoking, alcoholism, depression, heart and liver diseases and dozens of other illnesses and unhealthy behaviors. Davis says there are avenues that can help lessen the effects of traumatic experiences by building supportive relationships. “Think about paid family leave, think about policies that promote home visiting that give parents and caregivers knowledge, resources to support them when their kids are very little,” Davis says. “We know that improving access to health care, we know that access to high-quality child care and early education. A lot of our kids are spending a lot of time in these early learning settings and we want those to be high quality.”

Research shows 33-percent of children with two or more ACEs have a chronic health condition involving a special health care need, compared to almost 14-percent of children who have not had ACEs.

(Radio Iowa)

Police in Creston report 19-year old Kessler Tomas, of Creston, was arrested early Saturday morning. Tomas was booked into the Union County Jail for OWI’1st offense and later released on $1,000 bond. A Corning resident reported to Creston Police Thursday night, that someone stole $25 in cash and change from her vehicle while it was parked in the Creston Wal-Mart parking lot. The loss was estimated at $30 And, Sunday afternoon, a Creston man reported that sometime between 1:30-am and 6-am Sunday, someone slashed two tires on his vehicle that was parked at his residence. The damage was estimated at $ 250.

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The Iowa Department of Transportation is considering seeking out sponsors for the Highway Helper trucks which operate on the interstates in the Des Moines, Council Bluffs and Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area. The D-O-T’s Scott Marler says half of the 40 states which have the program do some sort of sponsorship for the trucks.”Typically with a sponsorship of a program like this, the third-party sponsor will typically put a logo at a space on the side of the vehicle,” Marler says. “And in exchange they provide safety wrapping for the vehicle and they also provide some revenue back to the department for the opportunity to put those logos on the side of those trucks.” The program has come under some fire for its cost — which Marler says it around one million dollars for each of the three areas where they operate. The D-O-T hires an outside company to provide the service and he says the sponsorships would help offset those costs. He says they would include the third-party sponsorship as part of their request for proposal when they bid out the service when the current contract expires in 2018.

Marler says from what they’ve seen in other states, the sponsorship would cover a small portion of the cost of operation. “It varies a lot depending on the specifics of your state and the traffic volumes and things like that,” according to Marler. “We’re thinking that it’s in the range of 10 to 12 percent of the of the cost of program, would be kind of a reasonable expectation.” Marler says companies which are interested in promoting safe driving — such as insurance companies — are some of the potential sponsors. Marler says they provided more than 17-thousand services to people in the three operating areas in 2016. He says they hand survey cards to the motorists who were helped, and they have had a 94-percent excellence rating. “You can imagine when you are on the side of a busy interstate and if it’s your son or daughter or parent or grandparent and they have a flat tire or a problem — and there is a service there that can help them safely and quickly get out of harm’s way and get back on their way — that has been tremendously effective,” according to Marler. “Really in keeping traffic flowing and in keeping both our traveling public and those who might have challenges on the side of the road — to keep everyone safe.”

Marler says they haven’t made a final decision on the sponsorships. He says they are evaluating the idea now and trying to determine if they want to move ahead with a sponsorship program and should have a decision by early in 2018. The Highway Helper trucks run in the three areas from five a-m until eight p-m Monday through Friday. Marler says they also run during some holidays when there is going to be heavy traffic on the roadways.

(Radio Iowa)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say law enforcement officers descended on the Des Moines International Airport for what turned out to be a false alarm about a shooting. The officers headed to the airport around 8 p.m. Sunday. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the call that spurred the quick response was made by a woman with mental health issues. Police say she reported shots being fired at a van.

The officers found no evidence of a shooting. The woman was taken to a hospital.