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A traffic stop in Adams County on a vehicle with no license plates, resulted in the arrest, Saturday evening, of a man from Adair County. 41-year old Christopher Lee Breece, of Bridgewater, was taken into custody at around 6:55-p.m. for Driving While Barred. His bond was set at $2,000.
A Red Oak man arrested this past week for Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree, was arrested again yesterday (Saturday), for Domestic Assault. 46-year old James Reed Mitroff II, was taken into custody at around 6:30-p.m. Saturday. While at the Montgomery County Jail, Mitroff II allegedly became combative, and was subsequently charged with Assault on a Peace officer (without injury). His bond was set at $1,000.
A man from Oelwein died during a head-on crash Saturday evening in northeast Iowa’s Clayton County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2003 Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by 50-year old David Bushaw, of Oelwein, was westbound on Clayton Road at around 6:20-p.m., as a 1998 Massey Ferguson Farm Tractor driven by 18-year old Joshua Herzog, of Garnavillo, was traveling eastbound.
As the cycle was negotiating a curve in the road, for reasons unknown it crossed the center line and struck the tractor head-on. Bushaw died at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.
A man from Wayne County was injured Thursday in southern Iowa, when his motorcycle ran into the rear of a vehicle driven by a man from Audubon County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 33-year old Ian Harper, of Allerton, was operating a 2012 Harley Davidson XL-1200 Forty Eight motorcycle westbound on Highway 2 at around 2:15-p.m., Thursday, when he entered a construction zone and collided with the rear of a 2017 Mazda CX-5, that was stopped in traffic waiting for a pilot car.
The Patrol says Harper didn’t apply the brakes for some reason, prior to impacting the car, driven by 82-year old Klaus Kollatschny, of Kimballton. Harper was flown from the scene by air ambulance to a hospital in Des Moines.
Social media reports Saturday night showed evidence vandals caused damage to Kinnick Stadium and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as protesters marched through Iowa City. According to KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, the vandalism happened after 9 p.m. in the plaza outside the sound end zone at the stadium. Vandals also tagged the Nile Kinnick statue with graffiti.
The Some of the vandalism singled out football strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle. Doyle was put on administrative leave Saturday pending an investigation following claims of ‘racial disparities’ by former Hawkeye players.
Additional information was not immediately available.
A suspect involved in a multi-jurisdictional pursuit from Nebraska into Iowa, was being sought Saturday night, in Redfield. According to scanner traffic, the pursuit of a red Chevy Camaro with dark tinted windows, no front license plate and a rear plate from Colorado, began in Nebraska. The car reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour for an extended period of time.
The chase entered Iowa on Interstate 80 eastbound, and despite several attempts to disable the vehicle with stop-sticks, the suspect and his passenger managed to make it to Stuart, where they stopped for fuel and got back onto the interstate eastbound. The car exited near the Redfield exit and was found near the Casey’s Store. Drugs were reportedly found on the passenger seat.
A black female passenger from Illinois was taken into custody. The black male driver with a white t-shirt and sweatpants was still on foot in Redfield as of 9:25-p.m. Authorities were searching the area. No new information was available from law enforcement this (Sunday) morning.
WATERLOO, Iowa (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) — An Iowa woman has been sentence to probation in the overdose death of a toddler who swallowed medication while riding in her car. The Waterloo Falls Courier reported that a Polk County District Court judge sentenced 39-year-old Amanda Roena Leonard–Hellum, of Waterloo, on Thursday for felony neglect of a dependent person.
Authorities said Leonard-Hellum declined to seek medical attention for the 2-year-old, whom she was trying to adopt, as she was driving from Waterloo to visit her boyfriend in Des Moines in June 2019. Police were called to the boyfriend’s apartment the following morning, and the child was found dead. She was charged with child endangerment causing death, but the charge was reduced as part of a plea agreement.
(Radio Iowa) — After a short and somber debate, a Senate committee has advanced a priority from what Governor Kim Reynolds has called her “Second Chance” agenda — a proposed constitutional amendment to automatically restore a released felon’s voting rights. Senator Amy Sinclair, a Republican from Allerton, says she believes in second chances, but she urged her colleagues to vote against the proposal.
“While forgiveness is admirable, can the debt to our society ever truly be repaid by a prison sentence when a life has been taken, or a child’s innocence be stolen, when sexual brutality is allowed?” Sinclair’s passionate speech began with a reference to her “personal experiences” as a crime victim.
“Consider the victims who can never be fully repaid,” Sinclair said, “the families of those who people whose lives were snuffed out by violent felons.” Senator Tony Bisignano, a Democrat from Des Moines, began speaking a few moments later and started with condolences to Sinclair, followed by an argument for giving paroled felons the right to vote.
“What we’re trying to do is not create outliers where they’re not connected back to the community,” Bisignano said. Bisignano says the proposal will be of benefit to a group of felons sent to prison for drug and property crimes. “We need to do this for a lot of innocent young people who just screwed up from 18 to 25,” he said. Bisignano and the other Democrats on the committee supported the governor’s plan. Four Republicans, including Sinclair, opposed it.
The proposed constitutional amendment is now eligible for debate in the full senate next week.
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI-TV) — Health officials are reporting eight more deaths from the coronavirus in Iowa and 345 new positive cases. The Iowa Department of Public Health said the news cases bring the statewide total to 21,438 as of Saturday morning. There have now been 597 deaths.
KCCI reports that 299 patients currently are hospitalized, with 102 listed in intensive care and 62 on ventilators. There were 23 patients admitted in the last 24 hours. Hospitalization data continues to show flat or downward trends since an apparent peak around May.
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI-TV) — A 21-year-old man has been arrested in a shooting death last week in Des Moines. KCCI-TV reports that Dayquawne Gates was booked Friday night into the Polk County Jail, where he is being held without bond. He’s charged with first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Robert Freeman. Officers found Freeman laying in a front yard last week. He later died at a hospital. Detectives said they have video and firearm-related evidence linking Gates to the killing.