(Radio Iowa) — Five eastern Iowa men have been charged with sex trafficking, often in the Johnson County area. Twenty-one-year-old Isaiah Devon Patterson is accused of using advertising to sell sex with a minor girl. Twenty-five-year-old Arrion Marcus West is accused of forcing TWO minors to have sex for money.

Thirty-nine-year-old Albert Kelly Price is charged with paying THREE minors to have sex in hotels and other locations. Fifty-two-year-old Kendall Andrew Steb has been charged with a variety of sex trafficking, drug and firearm offenses. And Forty-year-old Tommy Tate Collins is charged with sex trafficking a minor and giving the victim marijuana and cocaine.

Two people were arrested on separate charges late Wednesday morning, in Creston. Police say 41-year old Lindsey Woollums, of Creston, was arrested for Driving While Suspended. She was released from custody on a $300 bond. And, 43-year old Tommy Moad, of Mt. Ayr, was arrested in Creston on a Union County warrant for Violation of a No Contact or Protective Order. The charges were summarily dismissed, and Moad was released from the Union County Jail.

SOLDIER, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man shot his wife in western Iowa after mistaking her for an intruder trying to get into their home. Monona County Sheriff Jeffrey Pratt says in a news release that 48-year-old Jackie Krier had been outside the family home about 3 miles west of Soldier when she was shot Tuesday evening by 49-year-old Brian Krier.

Jackier Krier was taken to an Onawa hospital and then transferred to a hospital in Sioux City. The shooting is being investigated.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who had said he was only defending himself when he beat another man at a central Iowa bar has been given 50 years in prison. Polk County District Court records say 49-year-old Rodney Henricksen was sentenced last week for killing Joshua Sadlon. Sadlon, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, died a day after the incident at the Escape Lounge in Urbandale in January 2018. A jury found Henricksen guilty of second-degree murder.

Henricksen had said he’d tried to de-escalate threats made by the drunken Sadlon and said Iowa’s “stand your ground” law protected him from prosecution. The law says a person doesn’t have to retreat before using deadly force if he or she reasonably thinks his or her life is being threatened.

The jury rejected his claim of self-defense. Prosecutors called it a bar beating, not a bar fight.