The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office has released a report on recent arrests and other activities. Authorities say a man who was getting ready to bond-out of the Pott. County Jail, was served with a warrant Thursday morning, for Violation of Parole. 42-year old Anthony Cortez Francis, of Council Bluffs, was advised of the warrant and returned to the custody of Corrections Staff. Late Thursday morning, a Pott. County Sheriff’s Deputy appeared at a residence in Neola, to locate a woman who had a valid warrant for Probation Violation. He spoke with 36-year old Staci Lynn Ashley, of Neola, the person wanted on the warrant. She acknowledged the warrant and asked to make some phone calls to arrange for bail. She was permitted to do so, then taken into custody and booked into the Pottawattamie County Jail without incident.

At around 11-p.m. Thursday, an eastern Iowa man was arrested by a Pott. County Deputy, at the Love’s Truck Stop, in Shelby. 42-year old Jason Asa Grulkey, of Cedar Rapids, was loitering at the Truck Stop and was asked to leave the area, but refused to so. A Deputy located Grulkey and ran a license check on him. Dispatch advised Grulkey had warrants for his arrest out of Linn County.  He was into custody and transported to Pott. County Corrections to be held on the Linn County warrant until their deputies could pick him up and transport him back to Linn County.

A man from Council Bluffs was arrested early this (Friday) morning, after 52-year old Vernon Atkinson, of Glenmora, LA., called the Sheriff’s Office at around 1:10-a.m.  Atkinson reported to authorities someone had tried to break into his truck while he was sleeping on the side of the road on Interstate 80 at the 17 mile marker. When Atkinson confronted the suspect, 31-year old Jestin Michael Hambright, Hambright fled east on Interstate 80. Atkinson followed the suspect vehicle to the 23 mile marker, where law enforcement was able to make contact and stop the suspect vehicle on 298th Street just east of Neola.

The driver of the suspect vehicle was identified as Hambright, who was taken into custody for burglary 2nd degree. Hambright was also charged with a restraining order violation due to his sister 18-year old Shaylee Elizabeth Hambright being in the vehicle. There is currently a no contact order in place between Jestin and Shaylee Hambright, with Shaylee Hambright being the protected party. A third passenger in the suspect vehicle identified as Zachary Michael Digilio was taken into custody for having outstanding warrant for Theft and Violation of Probation, in Pottawattamie County.