(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department today (Wednesday), said 34-year-old Corry Donal Johnston, of Creston, was arrested April 20th at around 10-p.m., at the Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office. Johnston was taken into custody on an Adams County warrant, Union County warrants for:

Corry Donal Johnston (Ringgold Co. S/O photo)

Possession of Controlled Substance/2nd Offense – Methamphetamine; Driving while Barred; Possession of Drug Paraphernalia; Eluding-Speed in excess of 25mph over limit, and Participating in a felony or result in serious injury 2nd offense; and on Ringgold County warrants for:

• Dominion/Control of a firearm by a felon.
• Possession of Burglary tools
• Possession of a controlled substance/2nd offense
• Driving While Barred
• Providing False Identification information
• Poss. of Drug Paraphernalia, and
• Failure to Display a registration plate.

His bond in Ringgold County was set at $11,300. His cash/surety bond on the Union County charges was set at $9,300.  The Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office says a Deputy made contact with Johnston at the Casey’s General Store in Mount Ayr, and took him into custody.

(Radio Iowa) – The University of Northern Iowa’s gerontology program now has an entire house near campus where they can run a dementia simulation. Gerontology professor Elaine Eshbaugh says she has never heard of another simulation with the entire house — though there are some portable simulations. “So it might be like you have a briefcase with some gear and you take it to a nursing home, or a conference room and you allow people to use that gear and do tasks,” Eshbaugh says. “That’s wonderful. It’s especially wonderful because you can take at different places and, you know, expose different people to dementia simulation. This is really different because it’s a home-like environment.” She says the environment is key in teaching about the lives of dementia patients.

“What most people don’t realize is that four out of five people living with dementia — they live in the community just like you and I do. They live in a house, they live in an apartment, they live with friends or family or by themselves,” she explains, “So, this is a realistic portrait of what it’s like to have dementia.” Eshbaugh says those who go through the house are given gloves, glasses, and headphones to simulate having dementia. “The headphones are specially designed to stimulate your auditory senses and how they might interpret sound if you have dementia, and we simulate the vision changes that might occur that actually are changes in the brain,” according to Eshbaugh. “So what happens is your brain becomes less able to accurately digest the information that you’re receiving through your senses.”

Eshbaugh says it shows what friends, family members, and patients with dementia deal with every day. “You know when we say this is your house you’ve lived for 20 years, and the people who come in are like ‘wait I’ve never seen this house before,’ and then we say hey exactly that’s kind of the point. Because I have people with dementia who wake up every morning in a space that is unfamiliar to them even though they might have lived there for 30 years,” she says. Eshbaugh says they have nurses and doctors go through the house along with family and friends. She wants to see even more people who may come into contact with someone dealing with dementia go through it too.

“We’re talking about hairstylists, we’re talking about people who work at the grocery store, and we love to allow those people to experience what it’s like to have dementia. Because we think when someone comes in and is a customer and wants service they can be just a little bit more patient and a little bit more dementia friendly,” Eshbaugh says. Up to four guests may go through each 45-minute session. Eshbaugh said the sessions are continuously full, bringing in 30 to 40 people each week.

She says she originally was hoping to just get two dorm rooms to use for the simulation, so this has worked out great to have the full house.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – A man from Bellevue, NE, was arrested late Tuesday night in Red Oak, following a traffic stop. According to Red Oak Police, the traffic stop on a vehicle for a traffic infraction, was conducted near Highway 34 and Avenue G, at around 11:23-p.m. Upon further investigation, it was determined that 20-year-old Carlos Rodriguez-Gonzalez, was wanted on active ATF warrants out of Nebraska, for weapon offenses (Sale or transfer of a firearm to prohibited person) & Fugitive From Justice.

He was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held without bond while awaiting extradition to Nebraska. Officers with the Red Oak P-D were assisted by deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, as well as the Montgomery County Communications Center.

(Red Oak, Iowa) — Sheriff’s deputies in Montgomery County, Tuesday afteroon, arrested a man from Council Bluffs. Christopher Brown was taken into custody at around 4:45-p.m., on active Montgomery County Warrant charging him with a Violation of Probation on an  original, Class-D Felony charge of second degree theft.

Brown was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on bond amounting to $20,000.