Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Pottawattamie County man Wednesday afternoon. 24-year old Jan Palubjak, of Oakland, was arrested at around 4:50-p.m. on a warrant for Probation Violation. He has since posted a $2,500 bond, and was released from custody.
Police in Council Bluffs say two people were injured in a wreck involving two semi trucks Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 80. Authorities told The Daily NonPareil the semis wrecked near the split with southbound I-29 near the Madison Avenue shortly after 2 p.m.
Officials said 50-year old Randy Baumfalk, of Hickman, Neb., was driving a 2007 Kenworth tractor trailer, and 45-year old Eric Payton, of Philadelphia, Pa., was driving a 2014 International tractor trailer. Police said both trucks were westbound on I-80 when traffic started to slow and pick back up intermittently as snow fell. Baumfalk’s Kenworth hit Payton’s International from behind.
Council Bluffs Rescue transported Payton and a passenger in his truck, 50-year-old Sherrard McKnight of Raleigh, N.C. to CHI Health Mercy Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.