A sheriff’s deputy in Pottawattamie County arrested a man in Oakland at around 1:30-a.m. Thursday. The deputy was dispatched to a residence in the 200 block of Grove Street. While enroute, he was advised a female was on the roof of the house across the street, saying her boyfriend assaulted her. Dispatch said also, the woman kept setting her car alarm off. Upon the deputies’ arrival, the 33-year old woman was found on the roof, and investigation resulted in the arrest of 48-year old Robert Lee Robinson, of Oakland, for felony Domestic Abuse Assault/3rd or subsequent offense.

A woman who wanted to visit an inmate/boyfriend at the Pott. County Jail Wednesday morning, was found to have a valid arrest warrant. 21-year old Hailey Nicole Carson was arrested for Violation of Probation and turned over to Corrections Staff.

The Creston Police Department is reporting five recent arrests. On Thursday, 38-year old Jennifer Lynn Beard, of Creston, was arrested for Harassment in the 3rd degree. She was later released on her own recognizance. Late Wednesday evening, 31-year old Clay Allen Brammer, of Arispe was arrested in Creston for Domestic Abuse Assault. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

At around 5:30-p.m. Wednesday, 37-year old Brandon Ashley Howe, of Creston, was arrested on a Union County warrant for Theft in the 3rd degree. His bond was also set at $1,000. And, 46-year old Tori Lynne Pettit, of Creston, was arrested Wednesday afternoon for Disorderly Conduct. She was released on a $300 bond.

Tuesday morning, 24-year old Tyler Dennis James White, a homeless person, was arrested in Creston for Theft in the 5th degree. White plead guilty to the charge, and was released.

Creston Police said also, that on June 28th, a man residing in the 300 block of Russel Street reported that sometime between June 27th and 28th, someone spray painted the side of his 1988 pickup truck while it was parked outside the residence. The damage was estimated at $330.

(Radio Iowa) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says President Trump’s Independence Day “Salute to America” in Washington, D.C. used the military as “props” for his ego. “I’ve always been proud of the fact that our country is not the kind of place where we feel the need to go over the top in proving how tough we are,” Buttigieg said. He went on to say “…America has not generally been, at least in my times, the kind of country where a leader found it necessary to roll tanks down the streets to prove that we were strong and so, in a way, I think it actually makes us seem smaller.” Buttigieg walked in Storm Lake’s July 4th parade and he says it was the kind of event that celebrated what is “good and special” about America — in contrast to the production in D.C.

“There’s this feeling with this president of trying too hard, maybe trying to compensate for his own failures when it came to his chance to serve,” Buttigieg said. “I don’t know.”  During the Vietnam War, Trump received four military deferments as a college student and another for a foot condition. Buttigieg was an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve. There’s a history of military service in Buttigieg’s family, but Buttigieg says he enlisted after volunteering for the Obama campaign in 2007 and knocking on doors in southern Iowa’s Union, Decatur and Ringgold Counties. “There I was, in my mid-to-late 20s, in Iowa, realizing that these towns are pouring out their youth into the American military and I still haven’t worn my country’s uniform. You know, what am I doing? And it was the thing that put me over the top,” he says.

Buttigieg was deployed to Afghanistan in 2013. “When I left in 2014, I thought I was one of the last guys turning out the lights on the way out and five years later we’re still there. We’re still debating how to get out. We’ve got to find a way to put an end to endless wars,” Buttigieg says. “I’m afraid we’re not that far from the day when I’ll open up the news and read about an American casualty in Afghanistan who was not alive on 9/11.”

Buttigieg says the U.S. can have some military presence in Afghanistan to ensure another terrorist attack on our country originates from Afghanistan, but he says that doesn’t mean an open-ended commitment to having so many troops on the ground. Buttigieg, in an interview with Radio Iowa on July 4th, discussed his military background as well as his bid for the presidency. Buttigieg’s campaign announced it has raised nearly 25 million dollars in the past three months. Buttieg said he’ll spend the bulk of that to organize get-out-the-vote efforts in “very specific places” — beginning with Iowa. “We’re developing our ground game now to a new level because we have the resources to do it, It’s a race. It’s also a unique dynamic because there’s just so many of us,” Buttigieg said, with a laugh.

Buttigieg was among the six presidential candidates who spent their July 4th campaigning in Iowa.

Police in Red Oak arrested two men early this (Friday) morning, on separate charges. A little before 2-a.m., 40-year old Jason Michael Eppenbaugh, of Red Oak, was arrested in the 1800 block of E. Summit Street, for possession of drug paraphernalia. Eppenbaugh was cited into court on the simple misdemeanor charge and then released at the scene.  And, at around 2:25-a.m., 27-year old Devon Keith Hale, of Council Bluffs, was arrested in the 200 block of N. 2nd Street in Red Oak. Hale was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and charged with Disorderly Conduct. His cash-only bond was set at $300.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police say a man was fatally shot by police after confronting them with a weapon when officers were called to a Des Moines-area home because of a domestic disturbance. West Des Moines police said the shooting occurred about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday less than a mile from the junction of I-35 and I-235 on the city’s north side. The man was injured and died at a hospital. No officers were injured.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — Candidates collided Thursday at the Iowa Cubs ballpark in Des Moines when former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife ran into former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and his family. Biden walked into the park as the O’Rourkes watched the end of a naturalization ceremony happening on the field, and went to introduce himself and his wife. The two Democratic presidential candidates chatted pleasantly about baseball.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Court of Appeals has overturned a $3.25 million jury award against a Des Moines-area couple’s lawyer over a failed adoption where the baby boy later was murdered in 2014. The Des Moines Register reports that a three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that adoption attorney Jason Rieper’s conduct fell short of the legal threshold permitting Rachel and Heidi McFarland of Ankeny to recover damages for emotional distress from alleged legal malpractice.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new Iowa law will set aside part of the state’s lottery revenues to help the families of firefighters and law enforcement officers keep insurance after their deaths. The Des Moines Register reports that the law will allow the Iowa Lottery to provide $100,000 to a new fund for assisting the families of firefighters and law enforcement officers who die on duty. It will help cover health or accident insurance costs.