The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information in regards to a burglary that occurred early Thursday morning. The burglary occurred at Dickel Duit 2227 Highway 48 in Red Oak between about 3:10 a.m. and 3:15 a.m.

Investigators say two males broke glass to the front door of the building and stole over $10,000 in Stihl chainsaws, backpack leaf blowers, and a cut off saw. Two vehicles were observed parked on the highway during the incident. One vehicle is a late 90’s to early 2000’s dark colored Dodge Minivan and the other vehicle was unknown.

Anyone that has information about the burglary or who saw anything in the area is asked to call the Montgomery County Crime Stoppers at 1-888-434-2712 or 712-623-5107.

(Radio Iowa) — A bill has been introduced in the Iowa House in response to the recent case of more than 24-hundred fetal remains found in the garage and vehicle of an Indiana doctor who performed abortions. Tom Chapman of the Iowa Catholic Conference says burying the dead respectfully is important to the Catholic Church.

“Whether people oppose or support abortion, I think the least we can do is ensure that all human remains, including the bodily remains of all unborn children, are treated with dignity and respect,” Chapman said, “and I think this bill helps do that.” If the bill becomes law as currently written, the C-E-O of a medical facility must ask women who have a miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth to choose burial or cremation for the remains.

Daniel Zeno, a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, says medical facilities already have trained staff ask these kinds of questions. “One of the things that happens in this bill is it deletes the word ‘fetus’ and replaces it with ‘bodily remains,'” Zeno says. “This is part of a bigger effort to define what life is.”

Connie Ryan of the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa told committee members she had a miscarriage and could not have coped with the decisions this bill forces on a woman who has lost a pregnancy. “All I wanted to do was go home and be in my bed and I did and I stayed there for three days,” Ryan says.

Representative Robert Bacon, a Republican from Slater, is a funeral director who supports the bill. “This is a human life that we’re talking about and the remains on this we need to treat with respect and care and we also need to care for everyone involved in this,” Bacon says. Bacon and another Republican on a House subcommittee have voted to advance the bill. It’s now eligible for consideration in the House Human Resources Committee.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An arctic cold front that descended upon eastern Nebraska and most of Iowa may have claimed an elderly victim. Omaha police say officers found the body of an 80-year-old man a little before 5:40 a.m. Thursday in a street not far from an assisted living center where he lived. He’s been identified as Robert Freymuller. Police say he was not dressed appropriately for the cold.

The National Weather Service says the wind chill had dropped to minus 26 degrees at that time.  Many schools, businesses and organizations remained closed or opened late because of the frigid air blast.

An Iowa State Patrol Trooper responding to a report of a jack-knifed semi suffered moderately severe injuries when she was struck by a semi Wednesday evening, in eastern Iowa. The Patrol says Trooper Gentry Johannes was transported to a local hospital after she was struck when a second semi hit the jack-knifed rig on I-80, near Newton. Authorities say the roads were 100% ice covered at the time of the collision. Additional details are currently not available.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — A 19-year-old driver was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for a fatal collision that occurred while he was fleeing police in Davenport. Scott County District Court records say Angel Ochoa had pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide by reckless driving and two others crimes. Prosecutors dropped another charge in return. The chase began June 13, when a police officer tried to stop Ochoa’s car and a chase ensued. Investigators say Ochoa’s car reached speeds of up to 90 mph and ran through several red lights before broadsiding a car, killing 48-year-old Lori Ann Letts.

WATERLOO, Iowa (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) — A former Waterloo teacher accused of stealing money from the teachers union has pleaded guilty. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Anthony Dehl entered the plea Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. The charge: wire fraud. It carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. His sentencing date has not yet been set. Prosecutors say Dehl took more than $54,000 from the union’s accounts over about five years, when he was the union’s treasurer. Authorities say he spent some of it on gambling. Dehl retired from Waterloo Community Schools last year after more than 30 years in the profession.

Cass County Attorney Vanessa Strazdas today (Thursday), said charges have been filed against an Anita woman, 36-year old Alison E. Dorsey, for causing the death of an 11 week old newborn, identified only as “L.H.” Strazdas said the child suffered from internal bleeding resulting in brain death, while in the sole care and custody of Dorsey at her daycare on October 7, 2019.

L.H. died on October 8, 2019.  Medical evidence revealed the injuries causing death were inflicted and non-accidental, commonly called shaken baby syndrome.  Onset of brain hemorrhaging would have been immediate. Strazdas told KJAN News Dorsey was arrested this (Thursday) morning on a Class-A Felony charge of Murder in the 1st Degree, which carries a Life term in prison, and a Special Class-B Felony charge of Child Endangerment resulting in the death of a child. The maximum she would serve if convicted on that charge is 50 years in prison.

Dorsey was being held in the Cass County Jail on a $250,000 cash-only bond. Her initial appearance is set to take place by Friday. (See the Criminal Complaints filed in her arrest here – 04151__FECR016406_CRCM_242055  and 04151__FECR016406_CRCM_242054