Officials with the Carroll Community School District announced Thursday, that Dr. Casey Berlau, shared CAM/Nodaway Valley School District Superintendent has accepted the Superintendent’s position at CCSD. Berlau said he looks forward to “Working with the board, staff, parents and community,” as the Superintendent of the Carroll CSD. Berlau was among three finalists for the post who were interviewed April 18th. School officials say “Feedback was thoroughly reviewed by stakeholder groups that included students, support staff, teachers, administrators and community members. The board identified [Dr. Berlau] as the best fit to lead the district.”

Berlau has served the Nodaway Valley District for 10-years, and CAM for five-years. He has 13 years of Iowa Superintendent experience under his belt. He was also the Superintendent/Principal for Elk Horn-Kimballton, Secondary Principal for EHK, and a teacher at the Seymour Community Schools. His wife Jodi is currently a Third grade teacher at Nodaway Valley. The couple has three children.

A Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s deputy on patrol late Saturday night, stopped a vehicle at I-80 and Highway 59, for having paper license plates. The driver, 46-year old Patrick Bernard Jackson, of Des Moines, was arrested for Driving While Barred/Habitual Offense, and on holds for two agencies. His bond was set at $2,000. A traffic stop at around 5:30-a.m. Saturday on Highway 6 in Pott. County, near Treynor, resulted in the arrest of 21-year old Ethan Ray Rankin, on a charge of OWI/1st offense.

Friday evening, a deputy was called to a location in Carson for a reported armed subject. Following an investigation, 44-year old Kathleen Marie Gerhardt was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault w/a dangerous weapon – 1st offense. Friday afternoon, 49-year old Edward Glen Summers was picked up from the Saunders County, NE., jail, and transported to the Pott. County Jail, where he was held on an Iowa warrant for Collecting or attempting to collect fraudulent winnings.  20-year old Noah Patrick Benedict was arrested Friday afternoon at the Tri-Center School. Benedict was wanted on a Pott. County warrant for a Sex Offender Registry Violation. And, 44-year old Eric Clayton Burk, of Denison, was brought to the Sheriff’s Office Friday afternoon by a bail bondsman. Burk was wanted on Pott. County warrants for Violation of Probation, and on a hold for another agency. He was being held in the jail without bond.

On April 17th, 23-year old Javon Joshua Jennings, of Council Bluffs, who was being held in the Pottawattamie County Jail, was charged with Willful Injury resulting in Serious Injury, following an assault that had taken place in the jail. Bond for Jennings, who was being held on two felony warrants plus the assault charge, was set at $10,000.  And a Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputy who stopped a vehicle on the Old Mormon Bridge Road and Pokamoke Road last week, arrested 49-year old Barclay A. Monaster on April 16th, for OWI/2nd offense. The deputy had been alerted to the situation by a passing motorist.

Sheriff’s deputies in Montgomery County arrested two people, Friday. 59-year old Thomas Oscar Anderson, of Red Oak, was arrested on a Magistrate warrant for Violation of a No Contact Order. He was later released on his own recognizance. And, 50-year old Rene Telesforo Valdivia, of Colorado, was arrested on a Bench Warrant for Burglary in the 3rd Degree. Bond was set at $7,500.

Creston Police report four recent arrests. On Sunday (4/21), 56-year old Thomas Leroy Patterson, of Creston, was arrested at 315 W Adams for Disorderly Conduct. Patterson was transported to the Union County Jail where he bonded out on $300 bond. Saturday afternoon, 43-year old Richard Wade Starlin, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, for OWI 1st. Starlin was released from the Union County Jail on a $1000 bond.

And last Friday, 19-year old Patrick Nychylas Leigh Farlow, of Clarinda, was arrested at 300 N Pine for Escape of Custody and on an Outside agency warrant. He is being held in the Union County Jail on a $3000 cash bond. Also, 35-year old Jaime Torres, of Creston, was arrested in the 300 block New York Av for Domestic Abuse Assault by Strangulation. He was released from the Union County Jail on a $2000 bond.