PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) – An Iowa woman has been convicted of trespassing and criminal mischief for smashing windows at a defense contractor’s building near Offutt Air Force Base south of Omaha.  Mike Pilmaier is a former Bellevue police officer, and he told the jury Tuesday that he found Jessica Reznicek, of Des Moines, near a baseball bat outside the Bellevue offices of Northrop Grumman on Dec. 27. Pilmaier says Reznicek told him she used it to smash windows and had gone to the building to get documents that she thought belonged in the public’s hands.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that Reznicek testified that she felt compelled to act because Northrop Grumman had weapons contracts with the U.S. government.  Three other people were with her that night, but their charges have been dropped.

Police in Red Oak say an 85-year old woman was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon, after she allegedly assault a peace officer. Lois Marilyn Nelson, of Red Oak, was taken into custody at around 3:25-p.m. on the simple misdemeanor charge and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where her bond was set at $1,000.

Red Oak Police said also, 36-year old Allison Mary Ruhl, of Red Oak, was arrested Tuesday afternoon, on a Montgomery County warrant for Violation of Probation. Ruhl was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $2,000 bond.

And, at around 10:30-p.m., Tuesday, Red Oak Police arrested 23-year old Angela Georgia Bradfield, of Oklahoma, on a charges of Driving While Suspended and Failure to hold SR-22 insurance. Bradfield was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $1,000 bond.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Sioux City police say the credit and debit card information from a “significant” number of customers at two local banks has been stolen by devices known as skimmers. Police said Tuesday that they are cooperating with the FBI to locate anyone connected with the skimmers, which were installed on the exterior of an ATM at an Iowa-Nebraska State Bank branch and an ATM at a Pinnacle Bank branch.

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Sioux City police say the credit and debit card information from a “significant” number of customers at two local banks has been stolen by devices known as skimmers. The Sioux City Journal reports that police said Tuesday that they are cooperating with the FBI to locate anyone connected with the skimmers, which were installed on the exterior of an ATM at an Iowa-Nebraska State Bank branch and an ATM at a Pinnacle Bank branch. Detective Jeff Harstad says the skimmers were found May 14 and May 21.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Millions of tiny wasps that are natural parasites for the emerald ash borer have been released into wooded areas in 24 states as the battle against the tree-killing borer is now biological. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has researched and approved for release four species of parasitic wasps that naturally target the larval and egg stages of the ash borer, which has killed an estimated 38 million ash trees in urban and residential areas.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A development group wants to build a 29-story high-rise in downtown Des Moines. Blackbird Investments, a Des Moines-based developer, wants to build the proposed $60 million tower on an empty lot where half of the former Younkers department store was destroyed in a 2014 fire. The high-rise plan calls for 220 condos or apartments, roughly 150 hotel rooms and ground-level storefronts.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A downtown Des Moines bridge will close for a year as engineers work on raising it to meet flood rules. KCCI-TV reports that the city will spend $2.5 million to raise the historic Red Bridge over the Des Moines River by four and a half feet. Des Moines’ city engineer says the Army Corps of Engineers updated its flood rules for the river in 2011, and the bridge is now too low.