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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Woodbury County judge has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for attempted murder in the shooting of a Sioux City police officer. The Sioux City Journal reports Judge Jeffrey Neary’s sentence Friday means it will be 17½ years before Jamal Dean is eligible for parole. The 22-year-old Dean pleaded guilty last month in the shooting of officer Kevin McCormick.
McCormick had pulled over Dean in a traffic stop. Dean stepped out of his car, brandishing a .22-caliber rifle and fired eight shots through the squad car’s hood and windshield. Although the car was riddled with bullets and he was shot in the head, McCormick wasn’t seriously injured. He’s returned to work.
Asked by the judge if he had anything to say before sentencing, Dean responded, “Nah.”
The mens’ escapade began in Stuart, where a motel was robbed. Afterward, they drove to the America’s Best Value Inn near the intersection of I-80 and Highway 71 in Cass County, and allegedly robbed the motel at gunpoint, before leaving with an undetermined amount of cash. The crime was reported at around 11:40-p.m. Thursday.
Law enforcement agencies were notified and the suspects’ vehicle was discovered traveling west on I-80. As a State Trooper pursued the suspect’s vehicle, speeds reached upwards of 130-miles per hour. Multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in the search and apprehension of the suspects.
There’s no shortage of things to do this weekend, here in Cass County.
AtlanticFest, “A Celebration of Great People in a Great Place” will be held all day, Saturday (Aug. 10th). It begins at 7-a.m. with a Hy-Vee Pancake Breakfast in the City Park, followed by a road race (2-mile, 5-mile run & walk), at 8-a.m. At that same time, a free tractor ride will take place, rain or shine, beginning at 1st and Poplar Streets. Then at 10, there’s a Pet Show, Car and Motorcycle Show, and at 12:30, the youth and adult divisions Pedal Pulls. At 1:30-p.m. Saturday, there will be a Car Crush with a military tank in the parking lot at 3rd and Walnut Streets. All day long there will be kid’s games in the City Park, and much more. For a full schedule of events, go to the Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce’ website at www.atlanticiowa.com.
Also being held Saturday, is the Cass County Conservation Board’s “Breakfast with the Birds” program. It takes place at in the Camblin Addition Shelter at Sunnyside Park, beginning at 9-a.m., and features Kay Neumann, rehabilitator and Executive Director of SOAR (Save Our Avian Resources). She’ll show and discuss several of her permanently injured birds and may have fully recovered bird to release back into the wild. Free will donations will be accepted at the event.
And, the Nishna Valley Trails group will host a Kids Bike Ride beginning at 10-a.m. Saturday, at the Schildberg Recreation Area’s west parking lot. Kids will ride according to age groups. The ride is free, and is co-sponsored by Cass County Conservation, Howard’s Clothing, Fareway, and the West Side Diner, in Atlantic. For more information, call Cass County Naturalist Lora Kanning at 712-769-2372.
If loud and powerful motors don’t bother you, then you might want to head to Harrison County this weekend, where two different tractor pulls will take place Saturday. The first event takes place in Persia at 1-p.m., Saturday. Tickets sell for $7, with pit passes going for $10. Mike Olson, member of the Persia Fire Department, says they expect to have great participation this year. He says they’re expecting a great crowed and hoping for 70-to 80 tractor pull hooks and about the same number during the garden tractor pull.
The tractors and garden tractors will be performing at the same time on alternate tracks down at the Persia ball diamond. And what would a tractor pull event be without food? Olson says Hussy’s BBQ will serve pulled pork sandwiches. In addition, there will be hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos.
If a tractor pull isn’t really your thing, Persia will have several other events going on throughout the day. Olson says they’ll have mixed league end of the year softball tournament taking place all day. There will also be pig pasture bingo. Tickets are available today (Friday) for $5 a ticket, with the winner getting $300 and good neighbor winning $50. Olsen says there will also be duck races Saturday. Purchase a duck for $5 a duck. He says they hope to sell 50 of the plastic ducks, with the winner receiving half the money. That event will take place after the tractor pull.
The softball tournament begins at 10am Saturday morning. All proceeds from the Persia Tractor Pull go towards the Persia Fire Department to their equipment fund. Persia isn’t the only one sporting the big engines this weekend.
The Thunder in the Valley Outlaw Truck and Tractor Pull will be held later on Saturday afternoon in Dunlap. That event features some of the biggest machines around with Super Farm, Unlimited and Diesel Super Stock and 4-by-4 stock pickups. The Outlaw Truck and Tractor Pull will serve food inside their food stand along with a beer garden, and a DJ will entertain with music before and after the event.
Couples can get in for $25, single tickets are $15 and kids 12 and under are will be admitted for $5. The Outlaw Truck and Tractor Pull is in memory of Jason Hoffman who passed away near Dunlap last year in a car accident. A new announcer stand has been built in memory of Jason with his likeness on the back of it. The Dunlap Outlaw Tractor Pull starts at 4-pm Saturday. For more information on the Thunder in the Valley, visit www.outlawpulling.com
(Joel McCall/KNOD)
A man from Stanton escaped injury after the car he was driving smashed into the Casey’s General Store in Essex, Thursday morning. According to the Shenandoah Police Department (which covered the accident), just before 11-a.m., 82-year old Homer Hammers, of Stanton, was pulling into a parking slot in front of the store, when he accidently stepped on the gas instead of the brake. His car crashed through the front entrance of the convenience store.
In his report, the investigating officer recommended Hammers driving skills and knowledge be re-evaluated in order for him to retain his driving privileges.
Police in Red Oak report a Stanton man was arrested this (Friday) morning on numerous charges following a traffic stop for speeding. 22-year old David Joseph Byers was pulled over a little after 4-a.m. A check of his driver’s license indicated it was suspended. In addition, Byers’ vehicle had license plates that did not belong to that vehicle. A further investigation revealed the vehicle’s registration was expired.
Byers was charged with Driving While Suspended, Operation without Registration, Improper use of Registration and Speeding. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $566 bond.
In other news, the Red Oak P-D reports the arrested Thursday night, of 37-year old Rachel Charise Kathleen Hadden, from Red Oak. Hadden was taken into custody on a warrant for 5th degree theft. She was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $500 cash bond. And, 40-year old Tom Oren Murphy, of Essex, was arrested Thursday in Red Oak, for Driving While Suspended and having no insurance. Murphy was being held on $1,132 bond.
The parents of student wrestlers who were sexually abused by other wrestlers with the Nodaway Valley School District in 2011 are suing the district, demanding it enforce state anti-bullying and anti-harassment laws, and school policies that are already in place. According to KCCI-TV, the attorney for the plaintiffs said incidents of assault, harassment and bullying have continued since the original matter was brought to his attention, but none of the original victims have encountered such incidents. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from the district.
Allegations of sexual assault were revealed in late 2011 involving members of the high school wrestling team. The victims were also members of the team. Two students, one of whom was 18 at the time, the other 17, were formally charged with 2nd degree sexual assault in January 2012. Both pleaded guilty to lesser assault and harassment charges in August 2012, and were sentenced to 90 days in jail.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department reports the arrest Thursday night of a man on alcohol-related charges. 45-year old Ronald Lee Borem, of Villisca, was arrested at around 10:15-p.m. on a charge of public intoxication, following an incident in the 300 block of east 5th Street, in Villisca. Borem was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond.
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