(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – The Council Bluffs Police Department today (Wednesday) said the Carroll Kuemper baseball team lost their charter bus for a short time (Tuesday) night.  CBPD located the bus and arrested the person driving it.  The suspect was identified as 42-year-old Jamar Hill, of Omaha.  He faces charges that include Theft in the 1st Degree, and Driving While Suspended.

The incident began at around 9:24-p.m., when the 2000 motor coach bus was stolen from the parking lot of 915 N. 21st Street.  Officers located the bus three minutes later and conducted a traffic stop in the 1700 block of W. Broadway.  Hill, the driver, was taken into custody without incident.

Officials noted the bus had been chartered by Carroll-Kuemper for a baseball game being played at Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson’s Baseball Field.  The bus was returned to the owner, and…by-the-way:  Carroll-Kuemper won the game 6-2.