(Red Oak, Iowa) – A requested welfare check in Villisca, Monday night, in the 100 block of N. 3rd Avenue, resulted in the arrest of a man on an assault charge. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 37-year-old Jeffrey Sparks, III, of Villisca, was taken into custody for Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense. Sparks was being held without bond, in the Montgomery County Jail.