WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Anonymous donors paid $4,000 to the Waterloo Police Department so an officer can keep a police dog after he leaves the force due to health reasons. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports the Waterloo City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to give officer Tyler Brownell ownership of K-9 Jason, a Belgian Malinois who’s been with the police force since 2014.

Police Chief Dan Trelka says the city typically donates dogs to their handlers at the end of a dog’s service. However, Jason was only halfway through his career and had an estimated value of $4,000.

Trelka says that while Brownell had offered to give the department’s K-9 program $4,000, two donors privately contributed the money. Jason will now act as a service dog for Brownell.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump is nominating former Iowa Department of Transportation director Paul Trombino as administrator of the Federal Highway Administration.

The Des Moines Register reports that Trombino, of Johnston, is currently president of McClure Engineering of Clive. He headed the Iowa DOT for five years before resigning last November. His appointment comes amid a promise by Trump to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, including roads and bridges.

Trombino played a key role in Iowa’s adoption in 2015 of a 10-cent-per-gallon increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes to generate about $200 million annually for state and local road and bridge construction projects.

Trombino also served 17 years with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and has degrees in civil engineering and economics. His appointment must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

DURANGO, Iowa (AP) — A Durango woman found guilty in April of stealing more than $400,000 from an aunt who suffered from dementia has been sentenced to five years’ probation. The Telegraph Herald reports that 45-year-old Molly Bodish was sentenced Friday in Dubuque County. She was also ordered to pay restitution and court costs.

Dubuque police say they began investigating the possible abuse of an 80-year-old woman in May 2015, after her death. Prosecutors say a search of the woman’s bank records show Bodish wrote checks to herself or for her personal use from her aunt’s account totaling more than $414,000 over several years.

A vehicle reported stolen from a Bellevue, NE. man was was pursued Friday night in Pottawattamie County, and two people were taken into custody. The Pott. County Sheriff’s Office say a 2016 Chrysler 300 was taken from the Crescent area. A Sheriff’s Deputy positioned his vehicle along Interstate 29 near the 58 mile marker, and soon engaged in a pursuit. The chase ended near the Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park, in Council Bluffs, with the driver 28-year old Paige Elizabeth Thurman, of Council Bluffs, and 30-year old Michael Allen, of Cedar Bluffs, NE., being taken into custody at around 10:30-p.m.

Thurman faces multiple charges, including: Possession with the Intent to Deliver 124 grams of methamphetamine; Theft in the 1st degree; Theft in the 5th Degree; Having a concealed gun; Carrying Weapons; Unlawful Possession of a Prescription Drug; Possession of Drug Paraphernalia; Forgery, and Eluding. Additional charges include Driving While Barred and Interference with Official Acts.

Thurman was also wanted on several warrants, including Iowa warrants for Carrying Weapons, Theft in the 3rd Degree and Violation of Probation, and a Nebraska warrant, for which she was charged in Iowa as being a Fugitive from Justice.

Allen was charged with Theft in the 1st Degrees and interference with official acts. He was also arrested Thursday night for 2nd degree theft, for allegedly taking a 2002 Dodge Dakota pickup from a Honey Creek resident.

In addition to the Meth, authorities recovered at the scene: a handgun; a stolen trailer license plate; a Taser; Unprescribed medication; and a glass pipe.

A man and woman from were arrested this (Saturday) morning in Red Oak, for Public Intoxication. Red Oak Police report 30-year old Tracy Joe North, and 27-year old Holly Irene Gross, both of Red Oak, were taken into custody in the vicinity of N. 5th and E. Coolbaugh Streets, a little after 2-a.m.  The pair were being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 cash bond, each.