The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports a man found hiding in the basement of his residence was arrested Tuesday night on a Federal warrant. 46-year old Steven William Wells, of College Springs, was taken into custody for Probation Violation.  Wells was transported to the Page County Jail where he is being held without bond while awaiting transportation by the U.S. Marshall’s service for further court proceedings in Federal court.

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say a Whiting man tried to bribe his robbery victim into not testifying against him. Court documents say 21-year-old Justin Dahlheimer was accused of robbing a man he knew in January in Sioux City. Sioux City television station KCAU reports that documents say Dahlheimer was arrested May 15 after meeting the man and giving him $300 so the man wouldn’t testify. Dahlheimer remains charged with robbery and now faces a charge of tampering with a witness.

Governor Terry Branstad says he hopes some other Iowa city is able to land a new Prestage Farms pork plant after Mason City took itself out of the running. “I think they made a mistake,” Branstad says. “…First of all, Iowa is a leading pork producing state. It makes sense to process those pigs in Iowa.” The Mason City Council cast a tie vote on a development deal with the company in early May, rejecting the proposed 240-million dollar pork processing plant.

Branstad says he “was impressed” with Prestage when he met with the company’s executives. “It’s a family-owned business. They’ve had a great reputation in North Carolina,” Branstad says. Critics raised environmental concerns about wastewater from the plant and the odor from hog confinements that likely would be built or expanded to supply the plant. Others cited extra costs for the community, including the hiring of new school staff to teach the children of plant employees who do not speak English.

The C-E-O of Prestage says as the company examines other locations, he’ll be better prepared to deal with critics of the project, who he calls “kooks”.  “What I’m concerned about is South Dakota and other states would like to have them,” Branstad says. “We hope that we could get this in Iowa because I think it would be good for the Iowa independent pork producers and good for the Iowa economy.”

Prestage Farms officials say “dozens” of cities in Iowa and elsewhere have expressed interest in their project. The Prestage Farms C-E-O says he’s open to building anywhere in the upper Midwest, but Iowa is still his “preference.” Mason City officials initially offered a more than 11-million dollar package of local incentives to land the deal. A petition drive is underway in the community to try to get the city council to reverse its rejection of the project.

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement led the lobbying effort against the deal and the group vows to organize in other Iowa cities where Prestage might consider locating.

(Radio Iowa)

Police in Creston say a resident of the 100 block of N. Division Street reported Tuesday, someone stole his red, Brinkman Smoker Grill. The theft occurred sometime between Midnight and 3-a.m., Tuesday. The grill was valued at $20.

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PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) – An Iowa woman has been convicted of trespassing and criminal mischief for smashing windows at a defense contractor’s building near Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha.  Mike Pilmaier is a former Bellevue police officer, and he told the jury Tuesday that he found Jessica Reznicek, of Des Moines, near a baseball bat outside the Bellevue offices of Northrop Grumman on Dec. 27. Pilmaier says Reznicek told him she used it to smash windows and had gone to the building to get documents that she thought belonged in the public’s hands.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that Reznicek testified that she felt compelled to act because Northrop Grumman had weapons contracts with the U.S. government.  Three other people were with her that night, but their charges have been dropped.

Police in Red Oak say an 85-year old woman was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon, after she allegedly assault a peace officer. Lois Marilyn Nelson, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 3:25-p.m. on the simple misdemeanor charge and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where her bond was set at $1,000.

Red Oak Police said also, 36-year old Allison Mary Ruhl, of Red Oak, was arrested Tuesday afternoon, on a Montgomery County warrant for Violation of Probation. Ruhl was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond.

And, at around 10:30-p.m., Tuesday, Red Oak Police arrested 23-year old Angela Georgia Bradfield, of Oklahoma, on a charges of Driving While Suspended and Failure to hold SR-22 insurance. Bradfield was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Sioux City police say the credit and debit card information from a “significant” number of customers at two local banks has been stolen by devices known as skimmers. Police said Tuesday that they are cooperating with the FBI to locate anyone connected with the skimmers, which were installed on the exterior of an ATM at an Iowa-Nebraska State Bank branch and an ATM at a Pinnacle Bank branch.

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Sioux City police say the credit and debit card information from a “significant” number of customers at two local banks has been stolen by devices known as skimmers. The Sioux City Journal reports that police said Tuesday that they are cooperating with the FBI to locate anyone connected with the skimmers, which were installed on the exterior of an ATM at an Iowa-Nebraska State Bank branch and an ATM at a Pinnacle Bank branch. Detective Jeff Harstad says the skimmers were found May 14 and May 21.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Millions of tiny wasps that are natural parasites for the emerald ash borer have been released into wooded areas in 24 states as the battle against the tree-killing borer is now biological. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has researched and approved for release four species of parasitic wasps that naturally target the larval and egg stages of the ash borer, which has killed an estimated 38 million ash trees in urban and residential areas.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A development group wants to build a 29-story high-rise in downtown Des Moines. Blackbird Investments, a Des Moines-based developer, wants to build the proposed $60 million tower on an empty lot where half of the former Younkers department store was destroyed in a 2014 fire. The high-rise plan calls for 220 condos or apartments, roughly 150 hotel rooms and ground-level storefronts.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A downtown Des Moines bridge will close for a year as engineers work on raising it to meet flood rules. KCCI-TV reports that the city will spend $2.5 million to raise the historic Red Bridge over the Des Moines River by four and a half feet. Des Moines’ city engineer says the Army Corps of Engineers updated its flood rules for the river in 2011, and the bridge is now too low.