WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — The city of Waterloo won’t fine itself when city vehicles are caught by automated red light and speed cameras. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the issue came up Monday before the City Council voted on enhancing penalties for private vehicles and drivers frequently caught by the cameras. Police Chief Dan Trelka says his department won’t issue citations for violations by city-owned vehicles. Officers review footage of violations before authorizing citations to be mailed to the registered owners of the vehicles. The actual drivers are not identified. Councilwoman Sharon Juon says it doesn’t make sense for the city to fine itself.

Trelka says if there’s a problem with a city vehicle driver, it’s referred to the driver’s department head for discipline. Trelka has previously indicated a car owner can assign the citation to the person who was driving at the time, such as a friend who borrowed the vehicle. Council members did not discuss why the city couldn’t assign the citation to one of its employees using the same process.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa charges of murder, robbery and theft filed against a 16-year-old Nebraska boy have been dismissed. The Omaha boy had been charged in Pottawattamie County District Court in connection with the January death of a Council Bluffs man, 38-year-old Adam Angeroth. Iowa court records say prosecutors sought dismissal of the adult charges because it was determined the crimes alleged occurred when the boy was only 15. The prosecutors said in their motion to dismiss that juveniles charged with forcible felonies must be at least 16 when the crimes occurred for the charges to be directly filed under the jurisdiction of a district court. Consequently, the prosecutors said, the offenses should be charged in juvenile court.

The boy remains in custody, awaiting action in juvenile court. 21-year old Liam Stec, of Omaha, and 20-year old Nicholas Haner, of Harlan, also have been charged with Angeroth’s death.

The Cass County Board of Supervisors today (Tuesday), approved the Fiscal Year 2020 County and Secondary Roads Budgets. The budget was approved following a public hearing, during which there were no comments. Cass County Auditor Dale Sunderman said the budget calls for a county-wide increase in the property tax asking over FY2019 of four-cents per thousand dollars valuation, or $5.13, as opposed to $5.09 in the current year. The Rural Basic Levy is $3.95/$1,000, which is a decrease from $4.25 FY 2019.

The sub-total of County-wide/All Rural Services amounts to $9.08, as compared to $9.34 in FY 2019. Supervisor Steve Green clarified an otherwise confusing budget.

(He said basically, “The County portion rate-wise is down, but money-wise is up.”  Sunderman said the rate went down, because of new construction, or added new construction is for the wind turbines. “This is probably this is the last year that you’ll see the ability to go down on your levy rate and [at the same time] raise more taxes.”)

An investigation into the arrest of a woman by Red Oak Police Monday evening on two felony counts of Forgery, resulted in her arrest again today (Tuesday), at a location on Pioneer trail in Pottawattamie County. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 25-year old Ashley Dawn Eden, of Red Oak, was taken into custody on a charge of Theft in the 5th Degree at around 8:40-a.m.  Eden had earlier been released on a $5,000 surety bond. Her new bond was set at $300. Eden was being held in the Montgomery County Jail.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Montana man dubbed the AK-47 bandit and accused of holding up banks in several states has pleaded guilty to robbing a bank in Nebraska. Richard Gathercole could face up to 35 years in prison after admitting Monday in federal court that he used an AK-47 to rob a Nebraska City bank in 2014. The 40-year-old Gathercole also pleaded guilty to a 2017 carjacking that led to his arrest.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Woods says the plea deal stipulates that Gathercole won’t be prosecuted by other jurisdictions for other violent crimes, including the shooting of a Kansas state trooper in 2017 and bank robberies in California, Idaho, Iowa and Washington state. Some of the crimes had passed the five-year federal statute of limitations. Gathercole is scheduled for sentencing in June.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports 42-year old Aaron O. Browning, of Council Bluffs, was arrested Monday morning, for Domestic Abuse Assault Causing Injury/1st offense. Browning was taken into custody following a domestic disturbance in the 20,400 block of Perry Road. His bond was set at $1,000. And, 27-year old Shane Jamal Peterson, of Council Bluffs, was served with a warrant Monday afternoon, for Contempt/Resistance of an Order. Peterson, who was being held in the Pott. County Jail on two Possession of Methamphetamine charges, was returned to his cell after being read the warrant. His bond was set at $1,000.