DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines plans to resume ticketing Monday of speeding violators caught by an automated speed radar camera on a heavily traveled portion of Interstate 235. Citations haven’t been issued since April 26 last year, upon an order from the Polk County District Court. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Muscatine appealed the court ruling. Those cities had sought the judicial review after the Iowa Transportation Department ordered some speed cameras turned off, saying the cameras didn’t make interstates safer.

This past April 27, however, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the department didn’t have authority over speed cameras, clearing the way for cities to employ them. The Des Moines Police Department said in a news release Tuesday that “a significant increase in speeding violations was noticed” after the ticketing halted.

Republican Congressman Steve King was an active tweeter, Tuesday, urging people to call congress and voice their opposition to bills that would provide what King calls “amnesty” to anyone who entered the U.S. illegally.  King tweeted out a link to an interview he did with T-M-Z about the separation of children from parents crossing illegally at the southern border. King told the T-M-Z cameraman there is “nothing cruel” about the way the children are being treated and they are not being held in cages. King has toured detention centers near the southern border before. The use of chain link fencing is needed, King has said, to separate the boys from the girls.

King said on Twitter that the only way to stop what he describes as a “flood of illegals” is for the U.S. to deport “substantially more…than the number of those who arrive seeking amnesty.”

(Radio Iowa)

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports three people were arrested on separate charges, Tuesday night. At around 11:20-p.m., 59-year old Deann Rachelle Russell, of Ft. Myers, FL., was arrested at the intersection of Highway 34 and 200th Street. She was charged with Interference with Officials Acts and held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond. At around 9-p.m., 42-year old Misty Schalome Currin, of Red Oak, was arrested near N. 3rd and E. Hammond Streets in Red Oak, for Driving While Suspended. Her bond was set at $566.25.  At about the same time, 37-year old Quinton Scott Swanberg, of Red Oak, was arrested in the 600 block of N. 3rd Street, in Red Oak. The report did not indicate what the charges were. Swanberg was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.

HARLAN, Iowa (AP) — A former city administrator in western Iowa has been charged with stealing from the city. Shelby County Court records say 67-year-old Terry Cox is charged with felony theft, felonious misconduct in office and misdemeanor records tampering. His lawyer, Mark Weinhardt, says Cox will plead not guilty. Cox’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 5.

He was city administrator for Harlan until he resigned in 2016 after questions were raised about his expenses. A state audit requested by the city identified nearly $145,000 in improper and unsupported disbursements from July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2016. Cox’s attorney says the audit report is flawed.

Police in Red Oak, Tuesday night, arrested 57-year old Tony Joe Christensen, of Red Oak. He was taken into custody for Public Intoxication, and transported to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital for evaluation before being transferred to the Montgomery County Jail, where his bond was set at $300.