The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest of a Red Oak man for Trespassing on Sunday.  At 7:45am officers arrested 24-year-old Cody Dean Johnson of Red Oak at 1804 East Summit Street Unit #3 in Red Oak.  Johnson was arrested for Trespassing, a Simple Misdemeanor, and was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and booked in.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The Cedar Rapids school district has cancelled classes for three days and closed its offices because of the flooding expected in Iowa’s second largest city. The district said Sunday that no classes will be held through Wednesday. The flooding along the Cedar River is expected to reach its peak on Tuesday, but it may take several days for the water to recede. District officials will reevaluate the situation by Wednesday afternoon.

The National Weather Service has revised its forecast for the Cedar River near Iowa’s second-largest city of Cedar Rapids. The river is expected to crest there on Tuesday morning at 23 feet. That level will cause significant flooding in Cedar Rapids, but it has been reduced since earlier forecasts for a crest above 25 feet. But officials are preparing for the worst flooding since 2008.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Some of Iowa’s most powerful interest groups along with environmental organizations are backing efforts to clean up the state’s waterways, but there isn’t unity about how to take action on an issue that has frustrated lawmakers in the past.

The proposals present a challenge for the split Iowa Legislature to reach consensus. Two new coalitions have offered very different plans for trying to fix the problem, with one backing an increase in the sales tax and another supporting a moratorium on livestock confinement operation. Gov. Terry Branstad has rejected both of their proposals.

Neither House Republicans nor Senate Democrats, who now control those chambers, have endorsed a specific water quality plan for the next session. Branstad has been clear he doesn’t support raising taxes to pay for water quality initiatives.

The Iowa Department of Corrections reports an inmate from the Davenport Work Release Facility (WRF) was listed as escaped this (Sunday) morning, after he failed to return to the facility from his place of employment. Department spokesman Fred Scaletta says 28-year old Taurus Allen Bryant was listed as escaped.

Taurus Bryant

Bryant was serving a 10-year term of imprisonment for 2nd Degree Robbery out of Muscatine County following his conviction in July 2009. He was placed in the Work Release program July 11th.

Bryant is an African American male, 6-feet tall, weighing about 259-pounds. He has black hair, brown eyes, and has tattoss on his left and right forearms, right hand, as well as left and right shoulders. He also has a scar on his face.

Anyone with information as to Bryant’s whereabouts should notify the Davenport Police Department or Scott County Sheriff’s Department.

Police in Red Oak arrested a man early this (Sunday) morning on charges that include OWI/1st offense, Serious Assault with Bodily Injury, and 2nd Degree Harassment. Officials say 40-year old Daniel Elmer Bright, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 2:40-a.m. in the vicinity of W. 4th and W. Coolbaugh Streets.  Bright was brought to the Montgomery County Jail and held on a $1,000 cash bond.

Two Pottawattamie County men were arrested Saturday, following an investigation into a residential burglary, theft of vehicles and other items. According to the Council Bluffs Police Department, 18-year old’s Zachary Sorenson and Austin Marc Downing, both of Council Bluffs, were arrested and charged with Burglary 2nd, Theft 1st and Conspiracy Charges. Downing was also arrested on a valid Theft 2nd warrant out of Council Bluffs.

Austin Downing

Zachary Sorenson

Authorities say officers were dispatched at around 8:30-a.m. Saturday to a home located in the 3100 block of Traders Point, Council Bluffs, with regard the incident the men were allegedly involved in. The home owner, 38-year old Michael Hodtwalker, informed officers that sometime overnight a person or person entered the home, by way of forced entry to a window, and removed several digital items and other property, as the family was asleep. The culprits then entered the garage and placed several dirt bike motorcycles into the bed of the Hodtwalker’s Ford F-150 truck and drove away.

Officers were informed by a neighborhood watch member that the incident may have been recorded on a surveillance camera. The citizen reviewed the recording and observed the truck leaving the residence at approximately 6:15-a.m. At around 10:15-a.m. officers were dispatched to the area of South 29th Street and 7th Avenue in Council Bluffs on a report of an abandoned truck in the roadway. They confirmed the vehicle was the same truck stolen from Hodtwalker’s Saturdays morning.

Additional investigation led detectives to a house in the 2900 block of 3rd Avenue in Council Bluffs, where one of the stolen motorcycles was seen in the rear yard. A search warrant was served upon the property and most of the stolen property and vehicles were recovered and returned to the rightful owners. The suspects were taken into custody. The case remains under investigation.