Police in Council Bluffs responded to the reported robbery of a Domino’s Pizza store at 2004 W. Broadway, early this (Thursday) morning. The call came in at around 12:12-a.m. Authorities say one employee told them as he was returning from taking out the trash, two black males wearing ski masks approached him.

One of the suspects pointed a handgun at the employee, and they entered the business. Once inside the suspects took an undetermined amount of cash and left the business in an unknown direction. Anyone with information is asked to contact Council Bluffs Police Criminal Investigation Division at 712-328-4728 or Crime Stoppers 712-328-7867(STOP)

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:38 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge says a Des Moines lawyer who interviewed for a position on the Iowa Court of Appeals but wasn’t a finalist may sue Gov. Kim Reynolds and other state officials, challenging a new law that gives the governor more power over the commission that selects supreme court and appeals judges. Des Moines trial lawyer Thomas Duff filed the lawsuit on Sept. 11.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A Waterloo man has pleaded guilty to setting his father’s house on fire this summer after the two argued. The Courier reports that 23-year-old Austin Dean Poyner pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced charge of second-degree arson. He had been charged with first-degree arson after investigators say he used two cups of gasoline in August to light a cardboard box on his father’s back porch afire.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds says she is taking President Donald Trump at his word that he will uphold an agreement made with farm state lawmakers and agriculture groups to maintain the ethanol requirements in current law. Since Trump became president, the Environmental Protection Agency has given 85 oil refineries exemptions from blending ethanol into the gasoline they sell. Reynolds says the president is trying to walk a fine line between oil and agriculture industries and she’ll keeping pushing the EPA.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is raising record amounts of cash for his 2020 reelection. But it’s not spilling over to vulnerable Republicans fighting to hold their seats in a narrowly divided Senate. Democrats outraised the GOP in key battlegrounds like Arizona and Maine during the third quarter. In Colorado, the Republican incumbent was nearly outraised by a former governor who had been in the race only five weeks. Even in states like Iowa and North Carolina candidates posted underwhelming sums.

Council Bluffs Police, Wednesday, arrested a man on Attempted Murder, three counts of Aggravated Assault and Criminal Mischief in the 2nd Degree, charges. 18-year old Blade John Flynn, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at his home, following an incident that took place in the Golden Corral Restaurant parking lots, at 3103 Dial Drive, just off the South Expressway.

Blade John Flynn

Police say officers responded to the restaurant at around 12:30-p.m. following a reported assault in progress.  Upon arrival officers met with the victims: 19-year old Kylee Fletcher, of Pacific Junction, a 17-year old female from Glenwood, 20-year old Taylor Bower, of Council Bluffs, and 25-year old Elizabeth Heinrich, of Omaha, who informed officers that Flynn used his vehicle to ram their parked vehicle, which all four victims were in.

One of the victims was exiting the vehicle when Flynn struck them, causing the victim to fall to the ground. Witnesses told officers that the suspect’s vehicle, a black Honda Civic struck the victim’s vehicle several times as well as another vehicle, which was unoccupied and parked in the restaurant parking lot. At one point during the incident, two of the victim’s had exited their vehicle and were forced to jump out of the way to avoid being struck by Flynn’s vehicle as he fled the area. The reason behind the incident was said to have been over a personal disagreement between Flynn and one of the female victims.

A short time later officers were able to locate Blade Flynn at his residence, where he was arrested without incident. He was transported to Pottawattamie County Corrections and booked-in on the charges mentioned. The victims were checked by medical personnel, no one sustained major injuries and all were said to be in good condition.

Anyone with any information that was in the area at the time of the incident is encouraged to contact the Council Bluffs Police Investigations Division at 712-328-4728, or Crime Stoppers at 712-328-7867.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge says a Des Moines lawyer who interviewed for a position on the Iowa Court of Appeals but wasn’t a finalist may sue Gov. Kim Reynolds and other state officials, challenging a new law that gives the governor more power over the commission that selects supreme court and appeals judges. Des Moines trial lawyer Thomas Duff filed the lawsuit Sept. 11.

The law signed by Reynolds in May gave her a majority of appointees on the State Judicial Nominating Commission. In a ruling filed Tuesday, a district court judge says Duff has standing to sue because he can argue he was injured by his application being considered by the new commission he claims was unconstitutionally created by the law.

It’s the second such lawsuit filed in state court challenging the law. The first lawsuit filed by Democratic legislators and a commission member was dismissed in June but is on appeal before the Iowa Court of Appeals. It will hear arguments on Nov. 6.

(Radio Iowa) — Webster City Police said today (Wednesday), that a man who has been missing for four days had been found.  Police say 38-year-old Jay Dee Wynkoop was located. Wynkoop was reported missing on Sunday afternoon. His car was found parked outside a Webster City convenience store.

Webster City Police Chief Shiloh Mork said out of the respect for the family, no further information will be released.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum today (Wednesday), announced that October 16th, 35-year old Marcus John Josephson, was sentenced in Council Bluffs United States District Court, for his role in a Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance. Josephson was sentenced to slightly less than 8.5-years (102 months) in prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release of three years.

On August 20, 2019, Josephson’s co-defendants, 47-year old Dustyn Russell Bond and 31-year old Clayton Dean Stucker, were also sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance. Bond was sentenced to 176 months of imprisonment (14.6-years), to be followed by a term of supervised release of eight years; and Stucker was sentenced to 77 months (6.4-years) in prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release of five years.

All three defendants had earlier pleaded guilty to this charge. On January 10, 2018, Bond and Stucker were stopped by law enforcement in Mills County and found to be in possession of methamphetamine. Bond and Stucker were associated with Marcus Josephson, who assisted them in the distribution of controlled substances in Montgomery County.

The case was investigated by the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force, United States Drug Enforcement Administration, Mills County Sheriff’s Department and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department. The case was prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa. #