Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope reports deputies with the Fremont County Sheriffs Office Narcotics and K9 units conducted an investigation into narcotics activity in Fremont County, Friday night. The investigation led to the arrest early this (Saturday) morning, of 30 year old Brandon Gutheil, of Council Bluffs.

Deputies arrested Gutheil for the Delivery of a controlled substance/methamphetamine. During the arrest, over 30 grams of methamphetamine was recovered, along with $1,626 in U-S Currency.

Gutheil was transported to the Fremont County Law Enforcement Center where he was being held on a $100,000 cash only bond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than 2,000 family, friends and public safety officers gathered at a West Des Moines church to honor one of two Des Moines police officers killed in a head-on crash. The Des Moines Register reports it has been a difficult time for the family of Carlos Puente-Morales, who died with officer Susan Farrell Saturday in a crash with a wrong-way driver.

During the Mass at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Bishop Richard Pates acknowledged the family’s great loss in the past 16 months. Puente-Morales’ brother died in a November 2014 traffic accident and their father died months later.

Puente-Morales had worked as an officer in Ottumwa before moving to Des Moines police. A prisoner being transported by the officers and the other driver were also killed.

The Iowa Supreme Court rules on the definition of an accident in a central Iowa insurance case. An S-U-V traveling on Highway 5 near Hartford on April 29th of 2011 crossed highway and struck the trailer of a semi just before 5 a-m. Seconds after the collision, a motorcyclist ran into the damaged S-U-V. The driver of the S-U-V, John Crivaro, died in the accident.

Truck driver Marlin Just, and motorcyclist, Travis Hughes, both sued Crivaro’s insurance company for damages. The Farmers Insurance Company said Crivaro’s policy has damage cap of 500-thousand dollars for each accident. Hughes and Just sued saying there were two separate accidents.

The Supreme Court ruling says — while there were multiple vehicles involved — there was a minimal time between when the S-U-V struck the semi and the motorcycle struck the S-U-V, and it upheld the district court ruling that there was only one accident.

(Radio Iowa)

Authorities in Iowa are investigating the death of a northwest Iowa man. Officials say on Wednesday, March 30th, the Cherokee Police Department was notified by St. Lukes Hospital in Sioux City that 41-year old Jesse Wendelsdorf, of Cherokee, had been admitted to their hospital in serious condition one day earlier. Thursday evening, died at St. Lukes.

The cause and manner of Wendelsdorf’s death is under investigation.  An autopsy has been scheduled for April 2nd at the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny.

The Cherokee Police Department along with the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner are continuing to investigate. No other details concerning the incident were released.

Atlantic Parks and Rec Director Roger Herring reports the Atlantic Parks and Recreation Department has opened all of the public restrooms at Sunnyside Park and City Park for the public’s convenience. The Department asks that you treat the restrooms with the same respect as you would your own.