Deputies in Montgomery County have made another, drug-related arrest in Villisca. Authorities say 55-year old Kirk Alan Black, of Villisca, was arrested Monday evening on two counts of Delivery of Methamphetamine, following an incident in the 500 block of South 4th Avenue. Black was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $100,000 bond. Agents with the Iowa Dept. of Narcotics Enforcement assisted deputies in conducting the arrest. Monday’s arrest comes on the heels of the arrest last Friday also on drug charges, of six other Villisca residents, some of whom face an additional charge of Child Endangerment.

The Sheriff’s Dept. reports also, 20-year old Cody Benjamin Carrol Johnson, of Stanton, was arrested Monday evening on a Montgomery County warrant for Probation Violation. Johnson was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $2,500 bond.

Sexual assault charges have been dropped against a western Iowa man who ran to succeed Joni Ernst in the Iowa Senate. The charges against 69-year-old Donald Brantz of Mineola were originally filed following an incident in Bellevue, Nebraska on October 10, 2014. Brantz was accused of inappropriately touching a woman and allegedly threatened to choke her. Brantz maintained he was innocent of those charges.

Donald Brantz

Brantz, who was a candidate for Iowa’s 23rd District Senate Seat vacated by Joni Ernst, was charged back in October with sexual assault in the third-degree, third-degree assault, disturbing the peace and interference with a public utility company. Sarpy County District Court Judge Robert C. Wester dismissed all but the disturbing the peace charge against Brantz, who pled no contest to that charge and will be sentenced on April 3.

(Radio Iowa)