SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Officials with the Iowa Department of Public Safety report a man from Sioux City, Iowa pled guilty on February 2nd in Woodbury County District Court, to Unlawful Betting-Fraudulent Claim, and Solicitation to Commit a Felony, in Woodbury County.  Both charges are Class D Felonies.

The plea from 57-year-old Dajo Aon Grandberry, followed a DCI investigation that resulted in his arrest on November 30, 2022.

The charges stem from an incident at the Hard Rock Casino in Sioux City on August 7, 2022, when Grandberry won a slot machine jackpot and attempted to have another person officially claim the winnings in an attempt to avoid paying offset funds that he owed the State of Iowa.  He further solicited another person to assist in completing the attempted felony fraud.

(Council Bluffs, Iowa) – A man from Nebraska is in critical condition, after suffering from head trauma. He was found at around 5:38-a.m. Monday on the shoulder of Interstate 29 near mile marker 44, in Council Bluffs. Arriving officers found 29-year-old Cody A. Spencer, of Bellevue, NE, after they responded to a call an unresponsive male laying on the side of the interstate.

Medics arrived and transported Spencer to the UNMC for emergency treatment.  The incident investigation is still on-going, and Council Bluffs Police are asking anyone with information to please call the Council Bluffs Police Department at 712-328-4765.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in Cass County report an Atlantic man was arrested January 27, 2023, on several warrants for controlled substance and narcotics related offenses.  20-year-old Gage Mundorf was transported to the Cass County Jail where he was booked and held pending his later release on bond.

(Radio Iowa) – The owner of a Cedar Rapids business is in Washington, D.C., urging congress to modernize the Small Business Administration. Sydney Rieckhoff is the C-E-O of Almost Famous Popcorn, a company she co-founded with her brother 10 years ago when she was 14. “Ninety-four percent of small business owners think that congress should join together to reorganize the Small Business Administration and really modernize it to be a tool and a resource for small businesses across the country that fits with the times, fits with the challenges that we feel today,” she says. Rieckhoff’s company received a Paycheck Protection Program grant at the beginning of the pandemic.

Reickhoff says while it helped keep employees on the company’s payroll, it exposed problems in the Small Business Administration. “Kind of outdated procedures and policies that take place in it,” she says. Ernst is the top Republican on the Senate Small Business Committee. Ernst says she and the Democrat who’s chair of the committee plan to work on a bipartisan plan that would lead to a top to bottom review of the Small Business Administration.

“The way Americans did business with Small Business over two decades ago is very different than the challenges and the technology that small businesses have today,” Ernst says. Ernst has invited Rieckhoff to be her guest tonight (Tuesday) in the U.S. House to watch President Biden’s State of the Union speech. Congresswoman Ashley Hinson has invited Sergeant Trent Dirks of Eldora, an Afghanistan vet who trains dogs to be service animals.

Congressman Randy Feenstra’s guest at tonight’s (Tuesday’s) speech is the C-E-O of a company building a 450-million dollar beef processing facility in Mills County.