{"id":560801,"date":"2026-03-04T03:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/?p=560801"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:19:25","slug":"montgomery-county-deputies-stop-a-theft-in-progress-villisca-man-arrested-for-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/news\/montgomery-county-deputies-stop-a-theft-in-progress-villisca-man-arrested-for-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County Deputies stop a theft in progress; Villisca man arrested for Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Red Oak, IA) &#8211; Sheriff&#8217;s Deputies in Montgomery County thwarted a theft in progress, Tuesday night, in Red Oak. Authorities report the Deputies entered the Cubby&#8217;s Store at around 11:10-p.m., and while in the store, observed two women who were allegedly attempting to steal from the business.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies intervened during the theft, and as a result of an investigation, arrested <strong>53-year-old Charity Ann Boulton, of Red Oak<\/strong>, for Possession of Methamphetamine\/1st offense &#8211; a serious misdemeanor. Boulton was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $1,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Montgomery County Sheriff&#8217;s Office reports the arrest at around 5:30-a.m. Tuesday, of <strong>34-year-old Jesse Allen Luft, of Villisca<\/strong>, for Domestic Assault\/3rd offense &#8211; a Class D felony. Also arrested during the incident investigation, was <strong>Ashley Ann Marie Ashburn, of Villisca<\/strong>. She was charged with Domestic Simple Assault &#8211; a simple misdemeanor. Both subjects were taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"0","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}