Police in Red Oak report the arrest of a teenager on an OWI charge this (Saturday) morning. Deputies took 17-year old Megan Justine Sands, of Red Oak, into custody at around 4-a.m. at the intersection of Highway 34 and Ironwood Avenue. Sands was brought to the Montgomery County Law Enforcement Center and charged with OWI/1st offense. She was then released to the custody of a parent.

Sheriff’s Deputies in Montgomery County arrested a Red Oak woman Friday night. 40-year old Rachel Charise Kathleen Hadden was taken into custody at around 9-p.m. on a Page County warrant for Violation of Probation. Hadden was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $5,000 cash bond.

And, Red Oak Police say no injuries were reported following a collision Friday afternoon. Authorities say just before 5-p.m., officers responded to a two-vehicle collision at the corner of N. 4th Street and Highway 34, in Red Oak. While en route, officers were informed one of the vehicles had left the scene. The same vehicle drove past the officers head south at a high rate of speed.

As Officers attempted to turn around and follow the vehicle, they lost sight of it. They continued to the accident scene, where an SUV was in the ditch, with one person trapped inside, but not hurt. Rescue crews were able to extricate 54-year old Michelle Solt, of Red Oak, from her vehicle.

The driver of the other vehicle, 57-year old Bunnie Sue Jared, of Red Oak, called Police later, stating that she was at a friends home and that she left the scene in her 2001 Chevy Impala because she didn’t have a phone to call police from.

Jared was cited for Failure to Obey a Traffic Control Device and Excessive Speed 50-mph in a 20-mpg zone)

U.S. Senate candidate Rob Hogg will highlight jobs and the economy on his visits to Onawa and Harlan today (Saturday). According to the Daily NonPareil, the Democratic candidate will meet with the public in Onawa at the public library, 707 Iowa Ave. from 10 to 11 a.m., followed by a similar function at the American Legion Post in Harlan, 702 Chatburn Ave., from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

The 49-year old Hogg is serving his third term in the Iowa Senate after two terms in the Iowa House. He announced his candidacy to unseat Charles Grassley last September in Callender, where his grandmother was born in 1902.

The “Sportsman’s Caucus” in the Iowa legislature is hosting a field trip to an indoor shooting range Monday. Representative Scott Ourth, a Democrat from Ackworth, says the exercise is for legislators — not the public — and lawmakers will be able to use a device that’s actually illegal to own in Iowa. “The purpose of this thing is since we, you know, encounter legislation and have debates regarding these devices and all that, we decided to put this on so that you can actually go and fire a firearm with suppressors,” Ourth says.

Under current Iowa law, suppressors or “silencers” as they’re sometimes called, are illegal to buy. In 2014 and again in 2015 legislators debated making the devices legal. The shooting range legislators will visit Monday does not SELL suppressors, but it has a FEDERAL license that allows the use of suppressors within one of its 17 shooting lanes. The facility, located in the Des Moines suburb of Johnston, was visited by a number of Republican presidential candidates who stopped by to do some target shooting over the past several months.

On Monday, there will be a seminar on suppressors for state legislators. “A classroom type, learning thing where they show how they’re built and what they look like and you can handle one and then you can see how they work,” Ourth says. “…I think it will probably help dispel some myths about the things.” During a 2014 debate in the Iowa House about legalizing suppressors, critics said muffling the sound of a gun shot would give “a new degree of intimacy for mass shootings.”

Supporters of the move say the “silencers” help preserve the hearing of gun owners who regularly take target practice. It IS legal to sell or own a suppressor in 40 other states.

(Radio Iowa)