DES MOINES, Iowa — A Des Moines girl reported abducted on Wednesday afternoon, has been located safely in Indiana, with her mother. The Des Moines Police Department shared that update at 10:40 p.m. Wednesday, hours after an AMBER Alert was issued for 14-year-old Nina Williams. That alert has since been canceled.

Des Moines police say Nina Williams was last seen in the 6100 block of Creston Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday before her disappearance. Nina is autistic and nonverbal and has special care needs. Police say evidence indicates that Nina was abducted by her noncustodial parent, 36-year-old Jessica Rae Williams.

The two were found in Hammond, Indiana, which is more than five hours east of Des Moines, just outside Chicago. Des Moines police say the incident remains under investigation, and that more information will be released.

(Radio Iowa) – The Food Bank of Siouxland now has the second half of a large donation of milk from Kemp’s Dairy and Hy-Vee. Food bank executive director, Jacob Wanderscheid, says the shelf stable milk in is chocolate. “Kids just generally respond a lot better to chocolate milk, so this will go even faster than that white milk that we got in the summer,” he says. “It comes at a great time as we build supplies up for the holiday giving.”

The food bank and the two businesses have teamed up for the annual great American milk drive the past two years. Wanderscheid says the 49-thousand units of milk come as they enter their busiest time. “The biggest season for us is that November, December, January period as economic things slow down farming, construction roadwork slows down, people are taking that break for winter. Times get tough during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season,” he says.

Milk has a short shelf life and that makes it a high demand item for the agencies the food bank serves. The Dairy Farmers of America developed the shelf stable milk. Jay Johnson is Kemp’s sales director in Le Mars where the shelf stable milk was first used. “It came as a part of a need study to determine how we could be most impactful to helping nutritionally starved kids and families throughout the country,” Johnson says. “And the number one problem was a milk product that didn’t require refrigeration. Through that D-F-A has decided to develop shelf stable, individually packed milk. It’s easier to carry. You can put it in backpacks, you can send it to school.”

The Food Bank of Siouxland will split the milk between the backpack program for two-thousand school kids, and the food they send to their agencies. They serve several northwest Iowa counties.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowans may have seen security camera footage on the T-V news where coordinated “flash mobs” of perhaps a dozen people or more swarm a store, steal armloads of pricey products, then bolt for the exits — all within a matter of seconds. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says we’re seeing a dramatic rise in this brand of organized retail crime and he’s introducing legislation today (Thursday) to target this type of theft ring. “It’s highly organized by underworld people,” Grassley says. “They get sometimes young people, sometimes older people, to go into these big boxes and get the most expensive items they can, and then it’s fenced.”

A federal report says organized retail crime costs retailers some 720-thousand dollars for every billion dollars in sales — a rise of 50-percent since 2015. While the thefts themselves can take a serious bite out of an individual store’s bottom line, Grassley says the large sums of money being generated when the stolen goods are fenced are often going overseas. “When this money comes in, a lot of times it’s laundered back to China,” Grassley says, “and then in China, it pays for fentanyl that comes to Mexico and involves the cartels.”

Grassley is co-sponsoring the bipartisan, bicameral Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, which would create an Organized Retail Crime Coordination Center to ensure resources and information-sharing will be available across state, federal and private-sector partners. He says the legislation would also set up a coordinated, multi-agency hub and new tools to better target the networks and trends driving organized retail crime.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – Police in Red Oak have arrested a man for Public Intoxication and Possession of drug paraphernalia. Authorities say 58-year-old Bradley Dean Gary, of Red Oak, at around 8:37-p.m., in the 200 block of N. Broadway Street. Bradley was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.

(Anita, Iowa) [updated] – Two people were injured during a semi tractor-trailer rollover accident this (Thursday) morning, in Cass County. The accident on eastbound I-80 just east of mile marker 66, was reported to the Cass County Communications Center at around 4:23-a.m. The semi was said to be on its side in the north ditch. One female suffered a laceration to her head and a dislocated shoulder. Another occupant of the cab suffered minor injuries. The driver requested to be transported to Cass Health in Atlantic, to be checked out.

Anita Rescue and Cass EMS were dispatched to the scene. Additional information is currently not available.