Justin Garey

Deputies in Page County, Tuesday, received custody from a law enforcement agency in Missouri, of 32-year old Jeffrey Scott Dewit, of Linn Creak, MO. Dewit was taken into custody on a Page County Warrant for Indecent contact with a child (an Aggravated misdemeanor). He was arrested in Rock Port, MO., and transported to the Page County Jail where he is being held without bond bond. Also arrested Tuesday, was 38-year old Justin William Garey, of rural Villisca. He was arrested about three-miles east of Clarinda on a Texas warrant for Probation Violation. Garey was transported to the Page County Jail and held without bond, pending extradition proceedings to Texas.

Jeffrey Dewit

Audubon Police Chief Matt Starmer reports three recent arrests. On Tuesday, 31-year old Randy Travis Kurth, of Audubon, was arrested for Harassment in the 1st Degree. He was transported to the Audubon County Jail and held pending an appearance before a magistrate. On May 21st, 21-year old Andrew Allen Malloy, of Audubon, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Causing Injury. He was also transported to the Audubon County Jail.  Malloy was seen by a magistrate the following day and released on promise to appear in court. And, on May 18th, 32-year old Brandon Gregory Hayes, of Vancouver, Washington, was arrested on a warrant for Felony Escape from a Washington State Facility.  Hayes is currently awaiting extradition back to Washington.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa-based utility is proposing a massive wind turbine project that would be the nation’s first investor-owned electric utility to generate all of its customer demand from wind energy.
Des Moines-based MidAmerican Energy said Wednesday that it’s submitting its proposal for a $922 million wind project to the Iowa Utilities Board. The utility says the project would generate 591 megawatts of power, or enough electricity to power 2.4 million homes. If approved, the proposal would mark MidAmerican’s 12th wind project.

MidAmerican is a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. It already has 2,189 wind turbines on 27 wind farms in Iowa, producing 4,400 megawatts of power.
If the latest project is approved and completed, the utility’s total investment in wind will total more than $12 billion. The project is slated for completion in late 2020.

Creston Police said today (Wednesday), 22-year old Fransisco Martinez, of Creston, was arrested this (Wed.) morning, at the Union County Law Enforcement Center. He was taken into custody on a warrant for Violation of Parole.  Martinez was being held in the Union County Jail without a bond until seen by a magistrate.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A man already given a life sentence for murder in Iowa has pleaded guilty to assaulting two guards in the Des Moines County Jail in Burlington. Court records show Jorge Sanders-Galvez, of St. Louis, entered pleas Tuesday to willful injury and to assault on a correctional officer. He’s scheduled to be sentenced Monday. Sanders-Galvez was given a life sentence for his role in killing a gender-fluid Burlington teenager, Kedarie Johnson.

The two officers were attacked Dec. 10 by Sanders-Galvez and two other inmates. Court records say the two other inmates, Earl Booth-Harris and Bobby Morris, also pleaded guilty. Each was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years. Booth-Harris is serving a life sentence in a different slaying.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Waterloo officials have chosen a kombucha tea company over a brewery and bicycle business as the new occupant for a downtown development. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that City Council members unanimously voted Tuesday to approve a seven-year lease with Verve Kombucha. The company will operate a bistro and brewery for the fermented tea product in the RiverLoop Public Market Building.

The lease agreement says Verve will receive free rent for one year while it renovates the building. Rent will be $1,000 a month during the second year and increase to $4,000 in the seventh year. Lark Brewing Co. and Waterloo Bicycle Works had also submitted proposals to lease the facility. The city used a state grant to turn a lawn care building into the Public Market.