The Iowa Department of Transportation reports an online land auction is currently underway in which nine Iowa DOT-owned parcels are being offered for sale in Jefferson, Shelby, Wapello and Warren counties. Officials say the land offers something for everyone, from building sites, potential recreational property and high-quality farmland. In Shelby County, the parcel is a .13-acre lot, in Harlan.

Bids are currently being accepted until 5-p.m. Friday, April 5th. Details on the parcels can be found on the Iowa DOT’s website at http://www.iowadot.gov/propmanage/index.html. Click the online auction link at the top of the page.

Police in Atlantic report the arrest Tuesday of 19-year old Mathew Watts, of Atlantic.

Mathew Watts (Cass Co. Sheriff’s Office photo)

Watts was taken into custody on a charge of Sexual Abuse in the 3rd degree. He was being held in the Cass County Jail.

Richard Randall Eatwell (Polk County Sheriff’s office photo)

The A-PD reports also, 38-year old Richard Randall Eatwell, of Des Moines, was arrested today (Wednesday), on a nationwide warrant issued on February 1st out of Polk County, for a Parole Violation associated with Work Release. Eatwell was booked into the Cass County Jail.

Sheriff’s officials in Adams County report the arrest Tuesday of two people on drug charges. 20-year old Janelle Blaisure and 18-year old Mikel Hilton, both of Corning, were separately arrested on Adams County felony warrants for Conspiracy to Manufacture a Controlled Substance/Methamphetamine.

The pair were being held in the Adams County Jail on a $50,000 cash bond only.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) – A 42-year-old man already given four to 12 years in prison for stealing copper wire in Dodge County, NE, has been given another term for stealing copper wire in Saunders County, NE.  Saunders County Attorney Scott Tingelhoff says Scott Mohr was given four to 12 years for the wire theft from center pivot irrigation systems last year. The sentences will be served at the same time.

Mohr and another Omaha man, 39-year-old Clifford Krings, are suspected of stealing copper wire from a field north of Council Bluffs in Iowa’s Pottawattamie County. The two were arrested last May.  Mohr waits prosecution on the Iowa theft, criminal mischief and trespass charges. Kings pleaded guilty and was given two years of probation. Kings wasn’t charged in Nebraska.