A woman from Missouri Valley was arrested by Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputies, Friday morning on a warrant for 3rd Degree Theft. 49-year old Faith Larae Jensen-Roberts was transferred from the Polk County Jail and brought back to Pott. County, where she was held pending a court appearance.

Sheriff’s officials report also, 24-year old Julian Felipa Stewart, of Council Bluffs, was arrested Friday afternoon for Domestic Assault, after a deputy observed a disturbance between Stewart and his 25-year old girlfriend.

37-year old Jason Allen Byers, of Council Bluffs, was arrested Friday afternoon in Pott. County, after he turned himself-in to the jail. Byers was wanted on warrants for use of possession of drug paraphernalia, unlawful possession of a prescription drug, and Criminal Mischief in the 5th degree.

28-year old Cody Flynn Miller, of Council Bluffs, was arrested Friday afternoon at the Pottawattamie County Jail. Miller was wanted on a warrant for Domestic Abuse/Impeding air flow. He was booked into the jail without incident.

A man being held in the Cass County (IA) Jail was transferred Friday afternoon by Pott. County Deputies to the jail in Council Bluffs. 24-year old Jacob Allen Craft, of Council Bluffs, was wanted on a warrant for Burglary in the 3rd degree/Theft from a motor vehicle.

A Council Bluffs man was  arrested on drug charges late Friday night, after a deputy conducted a welfare check on the driver of a vehicle that had partially stopped on the road in the area of Greenview and State Orchard Road, in Council Bluffs. 24-year old Cody Allan Johnston was determine to have operating the vehicle while intoxicated. Authorities also found 4.5 grams of marijuana and a marijuana smoking pipe in his possession. Johnston was subsequently taken into custody for OWI/1st offense, Possession of Marijuana w/the intent to deliver, and possession of paraphernalia.

And, the Pott. County Sheriff’s Office says 23-year old William Dunlap, Jr., of Council Bluffs, was arrested Saturday afternoon, following a traffic stop in Council Bluffs. As a result Dunlap, Jr., was arrested for Driving While Barred.

An Iowa State University study focused on people who are targets of workplace bullying. Stacy Tye-Williams, an I-S-U professor of communication studies, says she surveyed 48 targets of bullying about what advice they’d received, if they used the advice, if it worked and what advice they’d offer others. Tye-Williams says most bullying victims said none of the advice worked.

“But interestingly, when I asked them what kind of advice they would give to others, they repeated the same advice that either was not helpful for them, that made things worse, or that they didn’t use because they didn’t think it would be helpful for them,” she says.

Researchers found common themes among the advice victims received. The top recommendations include: quit the job or get out of the situation, ignore the bullying, fight or stand up to the bully, or stay calm and report the bullying. Tye-Williams says those options were often ineffective.

“They would talk about how they stood up to the bully but it only made things worse,” she says, “or they can’t quit their job because of financial reasons but then when I asked them, ‘What advice would you give,’ they would say, ‘Stand up to the bully because maybe it would work in another context,’ or they should quit, they should get out.”

Many victims feared retaliation or further humiliation if they directly confronted the bully or lacking a better option, they did nothing about the abuse. “People don’t have really good ways to navigate the situation so they’re kind of stuck in the cycle where they don’t know what to do,” Tye-Williams says. “There aren’t many stories out there circulating of people who successfully navigated a bullying situation.”

Sometimes, people will report the bullying to human resources or to their manager but sometimes the manager is the bully, which makes it more complicated. She says some companies are ill-equipped to handle the situation, telling both parties to “work it out on your own” or to “act like adults.” Tye-Williams co-authored the study with Katholeen Krone from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It appeared in the Journal of Applied Communication Research.

(Radio Iowa)

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Officials with the Creston Police Department say one person was arrested on drug-related charges over the past few days. Early this (Monday) morning, 38-year old Jeremy Ray Goodson, of Creston, was arrested at Wal-Mart in Creston on the charge of Possession of a controlled substance 1st – Marijuana.  Goodson was being held in the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond. And, early Saturday morning, 35-year old Michael Vincent Cihak, of Afton, was arrested in Creston for OWI/3rd offense, and Possession of a concealed weapon. He was later released on $5,000 bond.

Sunday afternoon, Creston Police arrested 47-year old Misty Joan McKinney, of Creston, on a Warrant.  McKinney was being held in the Ringgold County Jail on $1,000 bond.

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Police in Council Bluffs Sunday night arrested two men following a report of numerous shots fired in the 200 block of E. Orchard Drive at around 11:20-p.m. Upon arrival officers made an approach of the area where the shots had been reported to have originated from. As officers were making their approach multiple shots could be heard and seen fired from the rear of a residence.

Officers encountered a man later identified as 52-year old Michael Harris, of Council Bluffs, who had come out of a residence at 215 E. Orchard. Authorities say Harris refused to comply with officers’ orders to surrender and went back into his residence. A check of records indicated Harris had valid warrants for his arrest.

A perimeter was established and the Council Bluffs Police Emergency Services Team was called in. Harris eventually surrendered to police and was taken into custody. He was charged with Violation of a Court Order, Probation Violation, and Interference with Official Acts.

During the course of the investigation it was found the shots originated from the rear of 209 E. Orchard. 56-year old Ronald Browning, of Council Bluffs, who resided in the home, was arrested and charged with Discharging a Firearm in City Limits and Interference with Official Acts.

No injuries were reported.

Red Oak Police say no injuries were reported following a collision at around 9:15-p.m. Sunday at the uncontrolled intersection of E. Joy and N. 2nd Streets. Authorities said a 2004 Hyundai Tiburon driven by 22-year old Zachary Marshall, of Red Oak, was traveling north on N. 2nd Street when it was struck by a westbound 2001 Ford Focus driven by 28-year old Phillip McDonald, of Red Oak.

Both drivers told Police they didn’t see each other prior to the collision. Damage from the accident amounted to $16,000. No citations were injured.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) – Men from Texas and Alabama have been sentenced for posing as Internal Revenue Service agents and bilking a northern Iowa woman. The Mason City Globe Gazette reports 41-year-old Eduardo Cruz, of Grapevine, Texas, last week was sentenced to four days in jail. A $625 fine was suspended, and he was ordered to pay nearly $5,000 in restitution. He’d pleaded guilty to theft.

Co-defendant Coty Phillips, of Eufaula, Alabama, last month was sentenced to 85 days in jail and ordered to pay $69 in restitution. Police say Phillips and Cruz had called the woman and threatened her with arrest if she didn’t pay them money they said she owed the government.

Woodworkers from around the country for a conference worked on a special project to create wooden urns for the Iowa Veterans Cemetery. Dave Campbell, the editorial content chief of “Wood” magazine, which hosted the conference. He says they try to do a special project every year. “Last year we built 29 little free libraries to promote literacy in central Iowa and then we had those scattered around central Iowa that were built by our attendees,” Campbell says.

Campbell says this year’s project meets another need. “There are a large number of indigent veterans that if their cremains go unclaimed, they are turned over to the Veterans Cemetery and often times they are interred in just a plastic box,” Campbell says. “We didn’t really feel that was a very respectful or dignified burial for someone who has served our country.”

They got things underway Saturday to make enough urns to handle the need for one year. “The Veterans Cemetery says they can use about a hundred of these in about a year’s worth of time,” Campbell says. He says it takes about 30 to 45 minutes to build an urn and they planned to run right assembly lines to machine, cut, rout, sand and assemble the finished products. “Each box will have a lazer-engraved medallion of the branch of service that the veteran served in,” Campbell says. T

he special project was part of the activities at the three-day conference, where the woodworkers learned new techniques from experts. Liberty Hardwoods, Incorporated in Des Moines donated the red oak lumber to construct the urns, and Ridgid and Ryobi provided the power tools needed to build them.

(Radio Iowa)

From now (Monday, May 22nd) through Sunday June 4th, state and local law enforcement agencies across Iowa and the nation, will be stepping up seat belt enforcement.  Memorial Day weekend kicks off the busy summer season with many more families on the roads.  Iowa’s seat belt usage rate of 94 percent is one of the highest in the nation but the remaining six percent of vehicle occupants account for approximately half of all traffic fatalities.

The Department of Public Safety and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau would like to bust some seat belt myths (2015 data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration):

Pickup trucks will not protect you in a crash if you are not wearing a seat belt.  Sixty percent of pickup truck occupants who were killed were not buckled.  That compares to 42 percent of passenger car occupants.

Where you sit in the vehicle does not matter.  Forty-seven percent of all front-seat passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes were not wearing seat belts, but 57 percent of those killed in back seats were unrestrained.

Country driving is not safer.  Nationwide, there were 12,797 traffic fatalities on rural roads compared to 8,262 on urban streets.  Fifty percent of those killed in rural crashes were unbuckled compared to 46 percent in urban crashes.

Young drivers are not invincible and they are dying at a disproportionate rate because they are not wearing seat belts, especially young males.

Remember:  The habit of buckling up is as simple as turning on a light switch.  It should be an automatic action for you and everyone in your vehicle.

Authorities say SEAT BELTS ARE THE SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO SURVIVE IN A CRASH. Day and night, front seat and back, Click It or Ticket!  You just may save a life.