The Mills County Sheriff’s Office, Friday (today), reported three arrests took place Thursday. Authorities say 28-year old Angel Marie Shlee, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at the Pottawattamie County Jail, on a Mills County warrant for Probation Violation. Her bond was set at $2,500.

29-year old Shaka Renee Gordon, of Omaha, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, following a traffic stop at around 6:20-p.m. on Interstate 29. Her bond was set at $1,000. And, 56-year old Michael Jay Scott, of Chippewa Falls, WI., was arrested on 189th Street in Mills County, for Possession of a Controlled Substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. His bond was set at $1,300.

MOUNT PLEASANT – The Iowa Dept. of Corrections reports that on Thursday night, the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility (MPCF) was notified that an inmate has tested positive for COVID-19.

The inmate is an older adult male (ages 55-64), and was placed in medical isolation when he first reported to Health Services that he was not feeling well on Wednesday, July 8 at approximately 12:20 PM. After being assessed, he was immediately taken to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) for further medical evaluation and care. While at UIHC he was tested for COVID-19.  On Thursday, July 9, MPCF was informed of his first negative COVID-19 test. UIHC administered a second test, and MPCF was informed that this test was also negative. However later that day, MPCF was contacted by UIHC and informed that in fact the inmate was positive for COVID-19, and will remain at the hospital for care and monitoring supervision. He is currently in stable condition.

Working with the Iowa Dept. of Public Health and State Hygienic Lab, MPCF will be conducting additional testing of staff and inmates at the facility to identify those that might be carrying the virus while asymptomatic.

The department has been preparing for, and responding to incidents of COVID-19 in the prison system for several months. An outline of the steps that have been taken can be found at doc.iowa.gov/department-corrections-steps, and more information related to COVID-19 in the DOC can be found at doc.iowa.gov/COVID19. For members of the public with questions about COVID-19 in the prison system, a hotline is available during business hours Monday-Friday by calling (515) 373-5457.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa is spending $1 million to remove spray-painted messages Black Lives Matter protesters left on campus buildings earlier this summer. But not before documenting and preserving the images for future generations. Hundreds of protesters who gathered and marched across the campus in recent weeks left a slew of social justice messages, including on the 178-year-old Old Capitol and 93-year-old Field House. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that the $1 million cleanup will employ five Iowa companies to remove the spray paint from building exteriors.

To preserve the messages, UI Libraries will collect photos in an institutional archive that will grow and expand with additional documents, video clips, sound recordings and first-person narratives.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A man who went missing from an Iowa care center days ago has been found alive in a water-filled ditch. Volunteers had been searching for Mike Jensen since he was reported missing Monday from Ravenwood Specialty Care in Waterloo. Jensen is a former Wartburg College music instructor whose brain tumor diagnoses is the subject of an independent film.

The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier reports that a worker found the 45-year-old Jensen in the ditch, partially submerged in 4 to 5 inches of water and among cattails almost 10 feet tall. Police have said Jensen left the center Monday night through a window.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A spokesman says the Iowa Department of Public Safety will hand over internal misconduct records to a federal grand jury investigating a trooper after unsuccessfully fighting a subpoena in court. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the department must comply with the subpoena, which seeks internal investigation records related to an officer who is under scrutiny for possible civil rights violations.

The department had asked the courts to quash the subpoena, saying that it would have a chilling effect on internal investigations. A federal judge and the appeals court upheld the subpoena, saying the department failed to show it was unreasonable. The ruling doesn’t identify the officer under investigation.

CORALVILLE – The Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC) reports earlier today (Friday), several staff members were injured while attempting to restrain an inmate at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center (IMMC).

A counselor was working with an inmate in a mental health unit at IMCC, when the inmate began to indicate they would try to cause self harm by jumping from an upper level of the unit. As staff responded to try to keep the inmate from hurting himself, another inmate became physically aggressive, and required restraint from staff. As several correctional officers were attempting to bring them under restraint, the inmate physically resisted by wrestling with and kicking responding staff. In the process, two staff members suffered injuries.

One sergeant received a neck injury, and has been relieved form duty to be reviewed by a medical professional. An officer was reviewed by facility medical staff for a possible concussion, but was found to be fit to return to duty.

The incident remains under investigation.