The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday (today), posts multiple reports on arrests and incidents dating back to late January. On Tuesday (2/9), a Pott. County Deputy was dispatched to the scene of a possibly stolen car. The caller advised he gave a man a ride to the Underwood Truck Stop and dropped the man off. The caller advised also that the car was stolen. A person fitting the description of the suspect was located at the motel across the parking lot from the truck stop. 32-year old Christopher L. Petri, of Sidney, NE., was arrested Theft in the 1st/Possession of Stolen Property. He was being held in the Pott. County Jail on $10,000 bond.

An inmate at the Pott. County Jail, was presented with a warrant Tuesday, for Tampering with a Witness/Juror (2 counts), and Violation of a No Contact Order. 55-year old Carl Allen Race, of Council Bluffs, remained in the jail, Wednesday. Early Tuesday morning, 30-year old Dylan Reid Schmielau was arrested following a traffic stop on Highway 6 and 245th Street. Race was taken into custody for OWI/1st Offense.

Monday afternoon, 39-year old Bret David Hauptman, of Council Bluffs, who on a hold at the Pott. County Jail, was served with three additional warrants for Violation of No Contact Order and Violation of Probation. On Feb. 4th, 40-year old Brandon J. Wilson was arrested for being a Fugitive from Justice, after he was transferred from the custody of Mills County Deputies.  On Feb. 3rd, 27-year old Mariah Lee Beckwith turned herself-in to the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office. Beckwith was wanted on a warrant for Violation of Probation. She was turned over to Corrections Staff. A traffic stop Feb. 3rd in Council Bluffs, resulted in the arrest of 32-year old Israel Salvador Manzanares-Cruz, of Council Bluffs. He was arrested for Assault causing bodily injury or mental illness/without intent, Disobedience to signs/signals, and Operation a vehicle without a valid license. His bond was set at $1,457.

On Feb. 2nd, Pott. County Jail inmate, 38-year old Jeremy William Wenninghoff, from Alexandria, S.D., was presented with a warrant for Burglary in the 3rd Degree. He remains in the jail on a total of $10,600.  On Feb. 1st, 31-year old Rodney Duane Hubbard was arrested in Minden, for Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense-causing bodily injury, and Child Endangerment w/substantial risk, since two children (ages 3 & 5) were in the home at the time of the incident.

On Jan. 31st, 25-year old Pyerre D. Barnes was arrested in Council Bluffs, following a traffic stop. Barnes was taken into custody on a Nebraska warrant for being a Fugitive from Justice.  On Jan. 29th, 60-year old Brenda Lee Mercil, was transferred from the custody of Shelby County to Pott. County, under a warrant for Theft in the 4th Degree. And, 36-year old Walter David Mercado-David was arrested following a traffic stop in Treynor. He was taken into custody for Failure to Maintain control of a motor vehicle, Open Container as a driver, OWI/2nd offense, and reckless driving.

Also arrested in Pottawattamie County, was 19-year old Jayden Dean Moyers, who was taken into custody Jan. 28th, following a disturbance call. A check of his record indicated Moyers was wanted on a warrant for Failure to Appear on an OWI/1st offense, charge.

(Radio Iowa) – A bill that would limit the number of out-of-state students admitted to the medical and dental schools at the University of Iowa has cleared initial review in the Iowa House. At least 75 percent of the students accepted would have to be residents of Iowa or graduates of an Iowa college or university if the bill becomes law. Republican Representative Tom Jeneary, of Le Mars graduated from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in 1985. “I’m personally in favor of this bill,” Jeneary says. “I know the year I graduated dental school there were a significant percentage of people in my class that did not stay in the state.”

Republican legislators say the state needs more doctors and dentists, especially in rural Iowa and the bill could help. Dr. Gerard Clancey, senior associated dean of the University of Iowa College of Medicine, is encouraging legislators to look at the big picture.”I get to work a lot with our students and they are very much driven by their level of debt as to where they choose to practice,” he said. “Some students will incur, on average, a debt of $250,000.”

According to a lobbyist for the University of Iowa, 70 percent of current students in the College of Medicine are Iowa residents. The bill under consideration would require the university to submit a report to the legislature each year showing how many graduates of the medical and dental schools live in Iowa in that first year after earning their degrees.

(Radio Iowa) Republicans on an Iowa House subcommittee have advanced a bill that would pull state funding from public schools if a New York Times series about slavery is used in history classes. Representative Skyler Wheeler, a Republican from Orange City who is the bill’s sponsor, says the “1619 Project” is projecting a clear viewpoint. “It seeks to distort facts, not simply teach them and it does so as leftist political propaganda masquerading as history,” Wheeler said.

Rita Davenport, who spoke at a statehouse subcommittee hearing, says the 1619 project promotes Black victimhood. “In my 57 years, I’ve never felt that I could not achieve anything because of my race,” Davenport says. The bill would financially penalize public K-through-12 districts, community colleges and the three public universities for each day the 1619 project is used as history curriculum. Pete Hird, a lobbyist for Iowa Federation of Labor, says the bill amounts to censorship of history. “I think we should address the real problem,” Hird says. “Racism exists. What are we doing about it?”

Representative Ras Smith, a Democrat from Waterloo, says American history is complex and banning literature like the 1619 Project is a slippery slope. “America’s about the opportunity to have diverse thought, rigorous debate about what it means to be an American,” Smith says. Bills have been introduced in a handful of other states to ban the use of the 1619 Project in public schools. A committee in the Republican-led Arkansas legislature voted down one of those bills yesterday (Tuesday).

(Update 4:27-a.m.: Subject was located near the Evangelical Free Church. He will be transported to CCMH for evaluation and treatment of possible frostbite.)

Atlantic Police, Atlantic Rescue and Cass EMS were called at around 3:55-a.m. Wednesday, to the area of 405 E. 21st Street (21st and Oak Streets), to help look for an 83-year old male with Dementia, who went missing about 15-minutes earlier. Unsure which direction of travel he may have been headed. The man’s name is “Alan.”

No description of the subject was given or immediately available, other than he was wearing shoes. If seen please contact the comm center or call 911. The temperature at the time of his disappearance was 7 degrees above zero.