(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – Officials with the Council Bluffs Police Department said Thursday night, that as part of an ongoing suspicious death investigation, on September 14, 2023, members of the Council Bluffs Police Department’s (CBPD) Criminal Investigation Division (CID) applied for and were granted a search warrant for 609 North 8th Street, Council Bluffs.

During execution of the warrant, investigators located the person of interest in the investigation, who was previously unidentified. The subject was taken into custody without incident and identified as 49-year-old Jesse William Smith, previously of Denver, CO.

Smith was interviewed by detectives and subsequently arrested and and held at the Pottawattamie County Jail for the charges of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree and Fugitive from Justice. Investigators learned that Smith had extraditable arrest warrants from Colorado for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender and a Parole Violation. As of August 9th, 2023, Smith was #2 on Colorado’s list of Most Wanted Sex Offenders.

As we previously reported, on September 7th, 2023, at approximately 3:10 pm, Council Bluffs police and fire departments were dispatched to 2712 South 24th Street, Council Bluffs, the Super 8 Motel, for a report of an unresponsive person. An investigation revealed that an adult female died at the hotel under suspicious circumstances.