SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A lawsuit against the Iowa Corrections Department says an inmate was kept in prison for more than five months after he’d completed his sentence. The Sioux City Journal reports that Sioux City resident Jacob Schmidt is seeking from the state more than $40,000 in compensation and nearly $3,300 in wages he says he earned in prison but the state kept.

The lawsuit filed June 30 in Woodbury County District Court says corrections officials knew or should have known that Schmidt had finished his sentence from a 2007 conviction on July 15, 2015, yet he wasn’t released until Dec. 23 of that year. Iowa attorney general’s office spokesman Geoff Greenwood said Wednesday the state will be reviewing the lawsuit before filing an answer in court. He declined to comment further.

A Des Moines man faces several charges after telling police he had put explosives inside a West Des Moines mall. West Des Moines police say they received the call around eight p-m Wednesday from the who said he had barricaded himself in the Valley West Mall. Dispatchers continued conversations with the man, identified as 26-year-old Quinten Nelson, and he told them he had explosives and was armed.

Police officers from six other departments and the State Fire Marshal’s office responded and Nelson was eventually located in a construction dumpster behind a store. Nelson was taken to the hospital for an evaluation and then booked into the Polk County Jail on charges of threatening terrorism, threat of an explosive device, first-degree harassment, interference with official acts, and false report of an explosive or incendiary device.

(Radio Iowa)

A central Iowa police chief suffered only minor injuries when he was struck by a car that fled a traffic stop. Boone Police responded to the report of an assault Monday afternoon and surrounded a parked car, which matched the description of the one they were looking for. Boone Police Chief John Wiebold was approaching the driver, who accelerated.

Wiebold’s body camera captured the incident. (https://www.facebook.com/BoonePD/videos/1492342670788780/ )  After hitting the chief, the car sped away and led officers on a chase. The driver eventually stopped, but then tried to run away. She was quickly apprehended. Twenty-five-year-old Erica Shales of Des Moines is now facing charges of eluding, assault on a peace officer with a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance, and driving while suspended. She had a warrant for her arrest out of Polk County.

Two passengers in the car, 35-year-old Craig Collins of Nevada and 32-year-old Chanel Clark of Ames, were also arrested. They’re facing drug-related charges. Boone Police said Chief Wiebold did not require medical treatment.

(Radio Iowa)