(UPDATED) Officials with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday (today), that two males, ages 17 and 15, were arrested Wednesday (Oct. 11th), for multiple incidents of ongoing criminal activity in Griswold.Their names were not released because of their age.

Both teens face the following charges:

• Felony Theft in the 2nd Degree
• 3 counts each of Criminal Mischief 5th Degree – for the theft of a motor vehicle from Main Street in Griswold on October 10th, 2017; the spray painting an unoccupied residence on 2nd Street that took place on October 9, 2017; and for the spray painting of an unoccupied residence on 4th Street that took place on October 9, 2017.
• Burglary of a Motor Vehicle 3rd Degree – with regard a car burglary that took place on 6th Street on September 28, 2017;
• and Criminal Mischief 4th Degree – with regard to the spray painting of city park equipment that took place on October 9, 2017.

The 17-year-old juvenile male was additionally charged with:

• Felony Burglary in the 3rd Degree and Theft 5th Degree – with regard to the burglary at Rocket Joe’s Pizza on October 3, 2017;
• Theft 5th Degree and Possession of Alcohol by person under 18 – with regard to a shoplifting incident at the Tiger Mart on October 1, 2017
• Burglary of a Motor Vehicle – with regard a key fob stolen from a vehicle on 4th Street on October 5, 2017;
• Burglary of a Motor Vehicle and Attempted Burglary of a Motor Vehicle at the Griswold High School on September 28, 2017;
• a charge of Possession of Drug Paraphernalia on October 11, 2017;
• and a charge of Reckless Use of Fire and Explosives in connection with the stolen properties from the car burglary that took place on 6th Street on September 28, 2017.

Both juveniles were transported to the Juvenile Detention Center in Council Bluffs on October 11th, 2017.

The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest of a Red Oak man for an incident that took place on September 11th. At 1:30pm Thursday Officers arrested 30-year-old Daniel Travis Gresham of Red Oak in the 100 block of 1st Avenue in Red Oak. During the September incident Gresham allegedly threatened another man with a knife. He is being charged with Aggravated Assault While Displaying a Dangerous Weapon. Gresham is being held on $2,000 cash bond at the Montgomery County Jail.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa State Patrol says a man pulled over in Des Moines after a car pursuit told state troopers that he wanted to be chased because it was on his bucket list. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the man refused to halt a little before 7:30 a.m. Thursday when a trooper tried to stop him over a violation on Interstate 80. The 10- to 15-minute chase ended soon after he left the interstate. He was taken into custody.

That’s when the 46-year-old Des Moines resident shared his bucket list story with troopers. Court records don’t yet show that he’s been charged. State Patrol Sgt. Scott Bright told The Associated Press that he’d never heard such an excuse in his 28 years of policing.

The Iowa Environmental Council, the Des Moines Water Works and 18 central Iowa businesses have joined a coalition urging Tyson Foods to adopt new land-use rules for producers who supply livestock to Tyson slaughtering plants. Elise Peterson-Trujillo is a Des Moines-based organizer for Mighty Earth, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental group. “Unfortunately, the meat industry is currently driving production practices of feed grains that pollute our waterways with excess fertilizer pollutants,” she said. “Tyson Foods is the company most responsible for driving these polluting practices.” Tyson is the country’s largest meat company, producing about one out of every five pounds of meat purchased by American consumers. Susan Heathcote is the water program director for the Iowa Environmental Council. She says if Tyson required producers to plant oats or other cover crops on harvested corn and soybean fields, nitrate run-off could be reduced by as much as 40 percent.

“We really want to continue to make sure that we have a productive agricultural landscape,” Heathcote says. “It’s a big part of our economy, but we need to do that in a way that doesn’t add to the water quality problems, especially nitrate in our drinking water is a big issue in Iowa.” Heathcote spoke Wednesday morning during a news conference in Des Moines that was organized by the “Mighty Earth” group. Des Moines Water Works C-E-O Bill Stowe also spoke at the event, which was held on a Des Moines River bank. “Look out at that water,” Stowe said. “It looks more like cappuccino than it does drinking water. That’s because it has suspended solids. A lot of soils and a lot of nutrients associated with the soils are coming into our water because of land practices, but it’s also full of bacteria and the bacteria, to a large extent, is coming from livestock rearing.”

A spokeswoman for Tyson says Mighty Earth “is making misleading claims about” Tyson and overlooking “the many ways crops are used including human consumption and biofuel.” Tyson’s spokeswoman says “real change” requires a broad coalition, not just the actions of a single company, and Tyson is collaborating with a wide variety of stakeholders and groups “to promote continuous improvement.”r improving Tyson’s “environmental footprint.” Tyson has meat processing facilities in Council Bluffs, Waterloo, Storm Lake, Perry and Columbus Junction.

(Radio Iowa)

The director of the largest agency in state government says he’s trying to streamline office functions to free up money he could use to hire more social workers. Jerry Foxhoven has been director of the Iowa Department of Human Services since mid-June. He says many of the agency’s current social workers lack basic tools like modern smartphones that could speed up their field investigations.  “So if they’re sent out to see a family and that’s not where they are, they couldn’t Google it,” Foxhoven says. “They’d have to go back to their office.”

Foxhoven has been meeting with social workers in the agency and getting their ideas for improving the child protection system. “Their caseloads are somewhat high and they’re just bureaucratically worn out by the bureaucracy that we have,” Foxhoven says. The agency’s current budget for field operations is 16 million dollars less than it was a year ago.

(Radio Iowa)

The Page County Sheriff’s Office says a man from Hepburn was arrested Wednesday night, on two Page County warrants. 26-year old Keaton Ray Osthoff was taken into custody at 3rd & Main streets in Coin. at around 9:42-p.m.  He was wanted on warrants for: Failure to Appear on original charges of Theft 3rd Degree, Theft 4th Degree, and Burglary 3rd Degree, and for Violation of Probation on the original charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance.

Osthoff was unable to post bonds that amounted to $7,000.  He was transported to the Page County Jail where he remains pending future court appearances.

Keaton Ray Osthoff

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office says the pursuit of a stolen vehicle early this (Thursday) morning concluded with a crash, but not before shots were fired at Deputies. The chase began at around 3:45-a.m., after Pottawattamie County deputies were advised of a stolen vehicle at 10 East Street, Shelby (Loves Travel Stop).  The vehicle stolen was a white 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt.  At approximately 3:55-a.m., a Pottawattamie County deputy observed the vehicle westbound on Interstate 80 near the 21 mile marker.  The deputy attempted to stop the vehicle, but the Chevy accelerated to nearly 120 mph.  The vehicle left the Interstate at Underwood and continued westbound on Magnolia Road to County Road L-34.  From there, the car went northbound on L-34 at high rates of speed to Whippoorwill Road.  At County Road L-34 and Whippoorwill Road, a pit maneuver was used in attempt to stop the vehicle.  The car entered the south ditch and two occupants exited the vehicle and fled on foot.

Detimore

King

The driver, identified as 25-year old Brandon J. King, of Scranton, Kansas, was detained by law enforcement.  His passenger, later identified as 30-year old John P. Detimore, of Burlingame, KS entered a pickup in the area and fled the scene.  When he drove into a nearby corn field, the pickup became stuck, and Detimore fled on foot. Law enforcement personnel from Harrison, Shelby and Cass (Iowa) Counties assisted Pottawattamie County deputies setup a perimeter.  With the assistance of a Cass County Sheriff’s Office K-9, Detimore was located and detained.

Located at the scene was a stolen Ruger handgun.  The weapon was in a pickup that was stolen on October 4, 2017 in Centralia, Kansas.  Both Brandon King and John Detimore were transported to a Council Bluffs Hospital with minor injuries.  Both were released and transported to Pottawattamie County Corrections. The investigation is ongoing into shots being fired at the pursuing deputy and the theft of a vehicle from the State of Kansas.

Brandon King is being charged with multiple traffic offenses, theft of a motor vehicle, interference with official acts, possession of a stolen gun and possession of a dangerous weapon. John Detimore is being charged with theft of a motor vehicle (2 counts), felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a dangerous weapon, interference with official acts and attempted murder.

Update 9;55-a.m.) The pursuit of a vehicle stolen from the Love’s Truck Stop in Shelby early this morning included shots fired and a crash that sent one person to the hospital. Sheriff Jeff Danker said he was made aware at around 5-a.m. of the incident that began at around 3:45-a.m.  Danker said a Deputy saw the vehicle, and began a pursuit. The pusuit ended with the stolen vehicle being crashed. The suspects allegedly stole another vehicle. It was during that part of the pursuit, that shots were fired at the Deputy, but nothing was hit. After that vehicle also crashed, the driver was arrested, while the passenger took off and stole another vehicle, which he drove into a corn field near County Road L34 and Whippoorwill Road. The location is southeast of Missouri Valley and just south of Interstate 680..

The Cass County K9 assisted in finding the passenger, who was taken into custody at around 5:30-a.m. Danker said the pair also allegedly stole a vehicle he thought was from Kansas. Authorities were still looking for that vehicle.

(KNOD)

The Cass County Conservation Board is asking you…When do you think the first Trumpeter Swan will arrive at the Schildberg Quarry (In Atlantic)?  They’re asking you to “Please call in your prediction (by November 10th) to the Conservation Board at 712-769-2372, leave a message and return phone number,” if staff are not available.  Duplicate dates will not be allowed.  For example, if a caller predicts November 25th, no one else will be allowed to predict that arrival date.  S

Call anytime until November 10th to make your prediction.  One prediction per family, please. The sponsors of this contest will determine the official arrival of more than 6 trumpeter swans to Lake 4.  The winner will receive a Trumpeter Swan 8×10 print from the Cass County Conservation Board.  This contest is only for residents of Cass County.

Here is a list of previous arrival dates:

Trumpeter Swans have visited the Schildberg Quarry for, at least, seventeen out of the last eighteen winters.  Arrival and departure dates of the swans have been as follows:

1997/1998    December 18 – January 2

1998/1999    Nothing on record

1999/2000    December 25 – February 15

2000/2001    November 23 – March 6

2001/2002    December 25 – February 24

2002/2003    November 23 – March 15

2003/2004   November 26 – March 21

2004/2005    November 25 – March 18

2005/2006    November 17 – March 5

2006/2007 October 30 – March 9

2007/2008 November 22- February 14

2008/2009 November 18- March 12

2009-2010 November 19 – January 5

2010-2011 November 5 – February 10

2011/2012 November 17 – February 21

2012/2013 November 24– March 4

2013/2014 November 12- April 7

2014/2015 November 11- April 6

2015/2016 November 22- March 24

2016/2017 November 19- March 9

More area and State news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.

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