Mills County Sheriff’s report, 4/26/23
April 26th, 2023 by Ric Hanson
(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports two recent arrests and a single-vehicle rollover accident. Authorities say 26-year-old Rhiannon Irene Gilbert, of Glenwood, was arrested Monday on a warrant for Violation of No Contact Order. She was being held without bond in the Mills County Jail. And, Tuesday morning, 43-year-old Brian James Johnson, Jr., of Plattsmouth, NE, was arrested at the Douglas County, NE Jail, on a Mills County warrant for Theft in the 1st Degree. Johnson was also being held without bond.
The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports also, at around 5:40-p.m. Tuesday, 31-year-old Zachary Smith, of Glenwood, was driving a 2015 Jeep southbound on Hilman Road, when, according to an investigation, he attempted to turn west onto Hawley Road. The Jeep missed the turn and rolled over into a ditch on the north side of the road. Authorities say trees in the ditch held the SUV in-place until emergency services could arrive and extract him from the vehicle.
The report states that “there was a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from the vehicle.” EMS transported Smith to the UNMC in Omaha, for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.