The Harlan Police Department says an investigation into an accident that occurred March 22nd resulted in a citation. In their report released today (Monday), officials said 29-year old Gabriel Brown, of Harlan, was arrested on charges of Striking Fixtures on a Highway, and Having No Insurance, after officers were called to a residence in the 800 block of Market Street, where a mailbox had been hit and destroyed. Brown was cited for the offenses and then released.

The following day (March 23rd), 26-year old Kevin Gaudette, of Harlan, was arrested following a traffic stop. Gaudette was charged with OWI/1st offense, and cited for having an insufficient number of headlamps. The man was brought to the Shelby County Jail and later released on $1,000 bond. His preliminary hearing was set for April 11th.

Authorities in Page County have cited a Clarinda man following an investigation into a single-vehicle accident. Officials say 30-year old Steven Randall Stockton was cited for Failure to Maintain Control, Failure to have a valid license or permit, and Failure to show proof of insurance, after he lost control of the 1999 Oldsmobile he was driving, Sunday morning, in Clarinda.

Officials say Stockton was traveling south on 18th Street at around 1:20-a.m., when his car went off the road and landed in a ditch. The vehicle sustained $3,000 damage. A property owned by Jerry Edwards, of Clarinda, sustained $200 in landscape damage as a result of the accident, as well.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) – Iowa authorities have recaptured a man who escaped from a work release program in Council Bluffs over the weekend.  Fred Scaletta with the Iowa Department of Corrections says 56-year-old Carroll Wayne Walker was arrested on Sunday, and is being held in the Pottawattamie County jail.

Walker failed to report to work and didn’t return to the work release facility on Friday. He escaped less than a month after the Parole Board allowed him to transfer there on March 1.  Walker is in the middle of a ten-year sentence for second-degree robbery that he began serving in 2006.