The Atlantic Police Department reports the arrest on Thursday of 22-year old Jose Perez-Rivas. The Atlantic man was arrested on a Forgery by credit card, charge. Perez-Rivas was booked into the Cass County Jail.
The Atlantic Police Department reports the arrest on Thursday of 22-year old Jose Perez-Rivas. The Atlantic man was arrested on a Forgery by credit card, charge. Perez-Rivas was booked into the Cass County Jail.
The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Thursday, authorized County Engineer Charles Marker to work with County Attorney Dan Feistner, to draft a Resolution it’s hoped will put a little more “bite” into a State law penalizing those who use 4-wheel drive vehicles to tear up County dirt roads after it rains.
Supervisor Chuck Rieken is upset about the condition of the dirt roads, which are primarily used by farmers to transport the crops from their fields at harvest time. The roads are often torn-up by off-road vehicles soon after it rains. He first asked Engineer Charles Marker if there was anything the County could do about the acts of vandalism. More specifically, he asked if there was any way the County could create a resolution that would make the culprits pay a stiff fines for destroying roads the County has to spend time and money on by grading once the roads dry out.
Marker said the Code of Iowa allows Counties to take action against persons who intentionally destroy County property. He said there is a statute on the books about damage to a county or public road, that allows fines to be levied, but citizens who see such acts occurring need to be willing to report those incidents and be willing to testify to what they saw.
Rieken said seeing a vehicle traveling through town covered in mud is not enough evidence to prosecute those individuals. Someone must see the act taking place, take down a license plate and report it immediately to the authorities. Sheriff Darby McLaren said a Resolution from the County would help in prosecuting those responsible, once they are caught. He said it would be difficult to prosecute them using the State statute alone. A County resolution of support he said, would add more clout to the State law, and show the County is serious in making those responsible pay for the crime.
Jim Field speaks with Air Force Veteran Lt. General John Bradley about his time in the service and his efforts after his career. He and his wife, Jan, formed the Lamia-Afghan Foundation. It is a non-profit group dedicated to building schools especially for girls in Afghanistan. To learn more about the group, go to www.lamia-afghanfoundation.org. All area veterans are invited to hear Lt. Gen. Bradley as he visits with the Atlantic Rotary at noon on Tuesday, November 5 at the Heritage House.
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The driver of a pickup truck escaped injury after his vehicle erupted in flames Thursday morning near the Pottawattamie County Courthouse, in Council Bluffs. According to the Omaha World-Herald, the truck was heading into the downtown area when Barbara Jacobson, who was following behind her husband Jake‘s pickup, in her vehicle, noticed smoke coming from the pickup.
Jacobson pulled over onto 5th Avenue at around 10:40-a.m. Workers in the area tried to contain the flames with fire extinguishers, but the fire quickly got out of control. Firefighters responded quickly to the scene, but it still took about 30 minutes to bring the flames under control. Video from the courthouse showed a stream of flames flowing down the street from behind the pickup and trailer it was pulling.
Officials say a gas line leak is suspected to be the cause of the blaze, which destroyed the truck. The incident remains under investigation.
A suspicious white powder found Thursday afternoon at a business in Harlan caused authorities to block-off roads in the vicinity of CDS Global. Shelby County Emergency Management officials told the Omaha World-Herald the powder was reported at around 1:45-p.m. Federal and State Authorities were investigating the incident and conducting tests on the substance late Thursday night.Harlan police, deputies with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, crews with Harlan Fire Department and Shelby County Public Health officials assisted at the scene.
Police in Red Oak cited two men Thursday night on separate drug and alcohol-related charges. Officials say 23-year old Cory Melvin Stimmel, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 10:35-p.m. in the 100 block of West Hammond Street, on a charge of Possession of drug Paraphernalia. Stimmel was issued a citation and released from custody at the scene.
About an hour later, 50-year old Timmy Lee Gardner, of Red Oak, was cited for Possession of Open Container, following a traffic stop near the intersection of West 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue. Gardner was cited for the offense and released.
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