The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 37-year-old Corey Smith,from Elliott,was arrested at around 5-p.m. Monday, in the 200 block of Cherry Street, in Elliott. Smith was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and charged with Failure to Appear, on an original Possession of a Controlled Substance/Methamphetamine – 3^rd offense, charge. His cash-only bond was set at $5,000.

(Radio Iowa) – There are two statewide races in Tuesday’s Primary Election for Iowa’s U-S Senate seat. Three candidates are competing in the Democratic Primary. In the Republican Primary, Jim Carlin is challenging incumbent Chuck Grassley. Grassley is seeking an eighth term. Carlin is an attorney and a state senator from Sioux City. “I feel that the base of people that are going to align themselves with us is very energized,” Carlin said.

According to the most recent campaign filing, Carlin raised over half a million dollars for his campaign and had about 56-hundred left in mid-May.  “I’m very fortunate to have some very good staff around the state and they’ve done a really good job getting us in front of a lot of people,” Carlin says. “….I think the message of the preservation of freedom has really resonated with a lot of people.”

Carlin says too many politicians care more about power than about representing their constituents.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office, Monday (today), reports four arrests took place over the past week. At around 1:17-a.m. today (Monday), 19-year-old Anthony Michael Bobzien, of Council Bluffs, was arrested on Bunge Avenue, for Driving While Barred (Bond $2,000).  Saturday night, 23-year-old Andrew James Hughes, of Glenwood, was arrested at 284th Street & Highway 34, for OWI/1st offense (Bond $1,000).

Friday afternoon, Deputies in Mills County arrested 47-year-old Toby Leland Blankenship, of Omaha, at Mills County Corrections (Jail), on a warrant for Sex Abuse Assault/2nd offense. He remains held in the jail without bond. And, on June 1st, 18-year-old Christopher John Goynes, of Omaha, was arrested following a traffic stop on I-29. He was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance & Poss. of Drug Paraphernalia (Bond $1,300).

(Des Moines, Iowa) – The Primary Election will be upon us in less than a day. Secretary of State/Elections Commissioner Paul Pate spoke with KJAN News about the day, it’s importance, and what it means for incumbents and challengers for County, State and Federal positions.

While the General Election determines who steps into office on January 1st, 2023, Pate says the Primary set the stage for the nominating process.

The Primary serves as a way whittle-down the number of candidates for a given seat, before the General Election in November.

An incumbent who doesn’t win the Primary, will not be on the ballot for the November General Election, but that person does have the option to their name as a Write-in. Otherwise, their current term in office will expire at the end of the year.

Almost 65,000 people have voted absentee in this year’s primary election. This outpaces absentee vote totals from the previous midterm primary in 2018. ALL absentee ballots MUST be received by your county auditor no later than 8:00 P.M. on Election Day. The main thing Sec. Of State Pate wants Iowans to know one more thing….

The polls open at 7-a.m. Tuesday and close at 8-p.m. We’ll have the local election results on-air and on the web at kjan.com, as soon as they are released from the County Auditor’s Offices.

Washington, D-C: A Judge in Washington, D-C , Monday (June 6), set the trial date for a mother and son from the Des Moines metro area, who were allegedly involved in the January 6^th 2021 riot in the nation’s capitol. During the hearing, Judge Thomas Hogan ruled Deborah and Salvador Sandoval will be tried together. Their defense teams argued their cases should be tried separately because they say the two did not travel to Washington together and were not in the capitol building together. The judge denied that motion.

The unknown element at this time, is where the trial will occur. Attorneys for the pair want the case moved back to the Southern District of Iowa because they say they cannot get a fair trial in Washington, D.C. due to political opinion. Des Moines-based defense attorneys for Salvador Sandoval, William Kutmus and Trever Hook cited a survey that states 73% of respondents believe anyone who occupied the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, should be convicted of insurrection.

Judge Hogan said he would likely deny the change of venue request, but did not rule on the motion Monday. He denied a motion to drop one of Salvador’s charges. Attorney’s had claimed the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding is not applicable because the Jan. 6, 2021, certification of the Electoral College was not an official proceeding. Hogan ruled otherwise.