A Red Oak woman with a long history of arrests, was taken into custody Friday afternoon on a charge of Driving While Suspended. 44-year old Shelby Joann Olivares was arrested at around 3:20-p.m. and taken to the Montgomery County Jail, where her bond was set at $566.
A Council Bluffs man is charged with arson after he allegedly set a fire at a facility for the intellectually disabled. The Daily NonPareil says according to a police report, 46-year old Clyde W. Points was arrested on a warrant for third-degree arson Thursday for his role in a trash receptacle fire at VODEC, 612 S. Main Street. A Council Bluffs Fire Department investigator said Points allegedly set a dumpster near the VODEC building on fire on Wednesday.
Police were able to identify Points from surveillance footage at the facility.The fire investigator said authorities are investigating whether the fire could be connected to a string of dumpster fires that occurred in September of 2013.