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9 arrests in Adair County

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June 6th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Sheriff’s Department reports Deputies conducted nine arrests over the past week:

At around 1:45-a.m. Friday (June 3), 44-year-old Clinton Lewis Casteel, JR., of Stuart, was arrested by Stuart Police following the execution of a search warrant at an apartment on SW 7th Street in Stuart, He was charged with Assault while display a Dangerous Weapon; Possession of drug paraphernalia; a Drug Tax Stamp Violation, & Drug Trafficking (5-grams to 100kg of Meth). The actual amount listed in the report was 16.58 grams of a substance believed at the time, to be meth. Casteel remains held in the Adair County Jail on a $25,000 cash or surety bond.

On June 2nd at around 10:11-p.m., 33-year-old Mike Ray Crumm,of Omaha (formerly of Ames), was arrested in another county on a Adair County warrant for Eluding and Driving Under Suspension. His cash or surety bond was set at $1,000. Earlier that same evening, Adair County Deputies arrested 45-year-old Jeremiah Lee David Parcher, of Creston, in Orient, on three outside agency warrants, including one felony warrant. He was transferred to the Union County Jail.

There were numerous arrests May 30th in Adair County:

  • 35-year-old Samantha J. Zoucha, of Bellevue, NE, and 22-year-old Drew Darin Steckelberg, of Adair, were arrested at a residence in Adair, following a domestic incident. Each was charged with Domestic Assault w/bodily injury/1st offense. Zoucha was released the next day on her Own Recognizance. Steckelberg was released the next day on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.
  • 43-year-old Clinton A. Anders, of Chicago, IL, was arrested at the Adair Kum and Go Store, for Theft in the 2nd Degree. He’s accused of driving a stolen vehicle. Anders remains in the Adair County Jail on a $5,000 cash or surety bond.
  • 48-year-old Eric Wayne Whitting, of Stuart, was arrest by Stuart Police May 30th, for Driving While Barred. He was later released on a $2,000 c/s bond.
  • 35-year-old Geoffrey Laverne McBurney, of Des Moines, was arrested in Adair County on an Adair County warrant for Failure to Appear on a Driving While Barred, charge. His bond was set at $2,000.

On May 29th, 42-year-old Gildardo Garcia Sotelo, of Clive, was arrested by Police in Adair, for OWI/1st offense. He was also cited for having no valid driver’s license.  Sotelo was later released from the Adair County Jail on a $1,000 cash/surety bond. And, on May 28th, 56-year-old Michael William Magers, of Atlantic, was arrested for OWI/1st offense in Orient.