(Corrects to say he is from Persia, not Harlan) The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office reports 40-year old Ryan Nicholas Schwery, of Persia, was arrested July 19th on drug charges. Schwery faces a felony Possession of Controlled Substance/3rd offense charge. He was also charged with Possession of drug paraphernalia, Driving While Barred, and Prohibited Acts. Schwery posted a $5,000 bond or surety, and was released with a court date set for July 25th.  

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – A Council Bluffs woman has been accused of scamming a nursing home out of more than 9,700 painkiller pills while working there.
Court records say 50-year-old Laurine Wilhite is charged with theft, tampering with records and two counts of dependent adult abuse. Wilhite’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 9.

Authorities say Wilhite ordered medications for residents of Bethany Lutheran Home while working there as a nurse and then stole the drugs. A Bethany official told The Daily Nonpareil that Wilhite no longer works there.

Police in Creston, Wednesday afternoon, arrested an Adams County man on a Union County warrant for Delivery of a Schedule II Controlled Substance (less than 5 grams of Meth). 26-year old Anthony Cross, of Corning, was taken into custody at around 3:30-p.m. and was brought to the Union County Jail, where his bond was set at $10,000.

Also arrested Wednesday in Creston, was 32-year old Jared Wilmeth, of Creston, who was taken into custody for Operating a Vehicle without the owners consent. Wilmeth was being held in the Union County Jail on a $2,000 bond.

Creston Police said also, two Creston residents reported separate incidents of Theft and vandalism. A resident living in the 300 block of Birch Street told police someone entered a vehicle parked near his home and stole a pair of sunglasses and an empty pill bottle. The loss was estimated at $16. The incident happened sometime Tuesday into Wednesday. And, a resident of the 500 block of Levy Street in Creston reported Wednesday, that sometime between Noon and 6-p.m. that day, someone slashed both front tires on his vehicle, while it was parked in the Creston Fareway Store parking lot. The loss was estimated at $200.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A judge’s ruling could lead to an expansion of special-education services to thousands of Iowa students. The Des Moines Register reports  that Administrative Law Judge Christie Scase has ordered the Iowa Education Department to reimburse an Urbandale couple for private tutoring they provided after their child was denied special-education programming at school.

Scase says the department should revisit its policies on determining who qualifies for special education. Randy Califf is vice president of the advocacy group Decoding Dyslexia Iowa, and he says potentially thousands more Iowa students could qualify for special education if the department were to alter its eligibility rules.

The Education Department is appealing the case in U.S. District Court, seeking a declaration that its rules comply with federal law.