The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Villisca man on Friday afternoon. At 2:30pm Deputies arrestd 20-year-old Wyatt D. Baldwin of Villisca on a valid Iowa District Court warrant for Violation of Probation. Baldwin was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $5,000 cash bond.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports 34-year old Jamie Lea Petersen, of Council Bluffs, was arrested today (Friday), on a Montgomery County warrant for Probation Violation. Bond was set at $5,000.

On Thursday, 43-year old Matthew John Krewson, of Sidney (IA) was arrested for Driving Under Suspension ($300 bond), and 39-year old Matthew Duane Graham, of Pacific Junction, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault. He was being held without bond pending a court appearance.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office reports they have received multiple calls in our office today (Friday), with regard to people calling claiming to be the Social Security office. The caller wants information from you and says your benefits are in jeopardy! This is a SCAM – DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY INFORMATION!

FORT MADISON, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man convicted of a 1987 drug-related slaying has died in prison. The Iowa Corrections Department says 71-year-old Charles Robinson died of an illness Wednesday at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. The Des Moines Register reports that Robinson was a drug dealer who fatally shot 50-year-old Joseph Coon in January 1987 and wounded another man. Prosecutors said Coon owed Robinson $260 for drugs and the two had argued over the money. He’d also served prison time for robbery, forgery and shoplifting convictions.

(Update 12:45-p.m.) Police in Des Moines today (Friday), arrested a Shelby County man wanted on suspicion of 1^st degree Murder in Pottawatamie County. 20-year old Nicholas Haner, of Harlan, was wanted in connection with the death in January, of 38-year old Adam Angeroth, whose body was found in Angeroth’s Council Bluffs apartment.

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Des Moines police received a tip that Haner was in the area and they began to follow him and an unknown accomplice in the stolen car. They crashed the car just off Washington Avenue on East 14th. Police apprehended Haner in the area of East 14th Street and Osceola Avenue.

KCCI-TV in Des Moines reports multiple law enforcement officers worked together, blocking off various parts of East 14th Street. Police said Haner was easy to catch but the accomplice proved more of a challenge. He scrambled through neighborhoods, followed by dogs and heavily armed officers before he gave up and was captured at a home.

Council Bluffs Police Captain Todd Weddum says Haner will be held in the Polk County Jail, until arrangements are made for him to be brought back to Pottawattamie County; at this time, it is unknown when that will be. Two others were arrested in connection with the murder. 21-year old Liam Stec and an unidentified 16-year old male, both from Omaha, are in custody. Police said the teen’s case will begin in Juvenile Court, when and if there is a determination to hear his case as an adult in District Court, his identity will become public record.

The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that the state cannot deny two transgender women Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgery. In its ruling Friday, the state’s high court agreed with Judge Arthur Gamble’s ruling in June that a 1995 Iowa Department of Human Services policy denying Medicaid coverage for sex reassignment surgery violates the state’s 2007 Civil Rights Act, which added gender identity to the state’s list of protected classes.

Gamble also deemed state’s 1995 policy unconstitutional, but the high court did not address that finding. The ruling comes in the consolidated cases of Carol Ann Beal and EerieAnna Good, who sued in 2017 after their Medicaid provider and the Iowa Department of Human Services denied surgery requests recommended by doctors.