DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Corrections Department says a work release inmate has been listed as escaped. The department said Thursday that 20-year-old Jason Ruplinger Jr. didn’t return as required Wednesday night to the Davenport Work Release Center. The department says Ruplinger has been serving time for robbery and other crimes in Scott County. He was admitted to the work release center on Oct. 17.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports today (Thursday), a man held in the Pott. County Jail in Council Bluffs, was served Wednesday afternoon, with two warrants for Violation of Probation. 19-year old  Dustin Joshua Pursell, of Council Bluffs, was being held in the jail without bond, while awaiting placement in a Residential Correctional Facility (RCF). His bond on the warrants was set at $2,500.

A Deputy was dispatched to 11549 192nd in Council Bluffs Wednesday evening, following a report of a suspicious person on the property. 35-year old Rex D. Peterson II, of Dunbar, NE, was subsequently cited for Criminal Trespass, and released from the scene.

And, a Neola man, 39-year old Paul Wayne Carlson, was arrested at around 11:35-p.m. Wednesday at Highway 92 and  460th Street. Carlson was charged with OWI/1st offense after his car was stopped for speeding 69-mph in a 55-zone and he displayed clues of impairment.

WAHOO, Neb. (AP) — A man who attacked a sheriff’s deputy during an escape in eastern Nebraska has been given up to 113 years in prison. Saunders County, NE., District Court records say 38-year-old Eric Scott was sentenced Wednesday. He’d pleaded no contest to charges of escape, assault on an officer, theft and use of a weapon. Officials say Scott was being driven to court in Fremont Sept. 20, 2017, by a Dodge County sheriff’s deputy in an unmarked government car when he slipped his handcuffs and used his leg-iron chain to choke the deputy. Scott gained control of the car in Saunders County, forcing out the deputy.

Scott was arrested the next day after he was found walking near the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say two people were injured by fire at a home in the eastern Iowa community of Bettendorf. Station KWQC reports that firefighters were sent to the home around 7 p.m. Wednesday. Fire officials say the flames broke out as family members in the home used candles to celebrate a religious holiday. One victim was flown to an Iowa City hospital for treatment. The other was taken to a local hospital. Their names haven’t been released.