The Creston Police Department reports four recent arrests. 31-year old Cortni White and 46-year old Joy Lynne Mozena, both of Creston, were arrested at their separate residences on Union County warrants for Probation Violation. Both were being held in the Ringgold County Jail, where White’s bond was set at $1,000, and Mozena was being held without bond.

53-year old Scott Allen Gilbert, of Hawthorne, CA., was arrested at a residence in Creston, on a charge of Disorderly Conduct. He was being held in the Union County Jail on a $300 bond. And, 21-year old Garrett Lloyd Stalcup, of Prescott, was arrested in Creston for OWI/1st offense. His bond was set at $1,000.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former employee has been charged with sexually abusing a teenage resident at the Youth Emergency Services & Shelter in Des Moines. Court records say 20-year-old Zachary Campbell, of Urbandale, is charged with sexual abuse and sexual misconduct. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for Campbell. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 29.

Polk County Jail records say he remained in custody Friday, pending $22,000 bail. Shelter officials say Campbell no longer works there.

Allow extra time for your morning commute as there are plenty of ice or snow covered roads per @iowadot. Especially watch out for untreated secondary roads and parking lots.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A man who assaulted a police officer after a traffic stop in eastern Iowa has been sent to federal prison. Prosecutors say 36-year-old Erwin “Duffy” Bell, from Clinton, was given 20 years and eight months during sentencing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. He’d pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Prosecutors say he was a passenger in a car that was pulled over on Feb. 4 along U.S. Highway 30 in Mount Vernon. He struck the officer and fled but was soon run down and taken into custody after another violent struggle. Officers say they founded a loaded firearm on the ground nearby.

A study by University of Iowa researchers finds accidents between passenger and farm vehicles end up being a lot worse when alcohol is involved. Lead investigator Kari (Kerry) Harland says
it shows another reason to lay off alcohol when you are driving. She says the proportion was small with only three percent of all the crashes they studied had an alcohol-impaired driver involved, but of the 61 crashes, 75 percent had an injury or fatality.  And she says the non-farmers ended up worse off than the farmers. “In our study, the person most likely to be injured — and this is what previous studies have found — is the person who is in the passenger car,” Harland says.

Harland says the drivers of other vehicles already were at a disadvantage. She says collision between motor vehicles and farm equipment are more likely anyway to result in an injury because of the size of the farm equipment. Harland says the study shows another reason why you need to be alert to farm machinery, and why you should never drink and drive. Harland says a previous study by her colleagues found it was already hard for those drivers who hadn’t been drinking to judge the speed of farm vehicles. “And if there is not a shoulder and you try to pass them, it can get very complicated, even for unimpaired drivers,” Harland says.

The study found a greater percentage of the alcohol-impaired crashes occurred at night and on weekends, which she says not surprisingly coincides with the main times farmers are moving equipment.

(Radio Iowa)