Two people were arrested on separate charges Tuesday, in Pottawattamie County. The Sheriff’s Office reports that at around 2:45-p.m., 26-year old Dakota Lee Koehrsen, of Council Bluffs, was arrested after he turned himself-in to the Sheriff’s Office on an active warrant. After the warrant was confirmed, Koehrsen was taken into custody for Domestic Abuse Assault/1st offense – causing bodily injury, and on two-counts Violation of Probation. He was being held on a $1,000 bond associated with the assault charge.

And, 31-year old Mallory Alece McCabe, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at around 6:20-p.m. Tuesday, following a report of suspicious activity near a rural residence in the 14,500 block of Rosewood Road, near Avoca. McCabe was charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Her bond was set at $300.

There were also numerous prisoner transfers from jails in eastern Nebraska and elsewhere, to the Pott. County Jail, where those subjects were wanted on a variety of warrants.

A woman from Creston reported to Police, Tuesday, that sometime during the day, someone cut a rear tire on her vehicle, while it was parked outside her residence. The incident, which took place in the 600 block of Grand Avenue, caused about $100 damage.

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(Radio Iowa) — A former Belmond resident will serve three years on federal probation for possessing stolen mail from his wife’s postal route.  Fifty-year-old Timothy VanZweden of Clarion pleaded guilty to one count of possession of stolen mail. In the plea agreement, he admitted that while living with his wife in Belmond in 2017 he had thrown out a large trash bag that contained mail. Officers used a search warrant and found five letters taken from the wife’s mail route in the garbage, and a counterfeit key used to unlock mail holders.

VanZweden also admitted to burglarizing two homes on his wife’s mail route. He said the homeowners were “beautiful people” for whom everything in life came easily — and one of the women was snotty to him and looked down on him.

(Radio Iowa) — Eight Democrats in the Iowa House and an attorney from Cedar Rapids are filing a lawsuit, seeking to block changes in the commission that nominates candidates for openings on the Iowa Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Representative Brian Meyer, a Democrat from Des Moines who’s joined the lawsuit, says they’re arguing the changes are unconstitutional because the plan was included in a bill with a wide range of other topics. “It’s a provision in the constitution that prohibits log-rolling, which is having multiple subjects in one bill,” Meyer says. “This was a very controversial issue…and it was slammed through at the last minute.”

Governor Kim Reynolds approved the plan last week and has already used her new authority to appoint another member to the Judicial Nominating Commission. Meyer says the group is initially seeking an injunction to prevent the man Reynolds appointed to the commission from joining it. “This was done backroom deal, last minute, as part of a massive bill…but this was such an important subject that it should have had lots of public discussion and lots of input from the public,” Meyer said.

Representative Steven Holt, a Republican from Denison, led the House effort to come up with the final plan that won approval from the Republican majority. “it’s not a surprise that they’re making what I consider to be a desperate attempt because they know full well that what we did was constitutional,” Holt says, “so instead of going after it legally on the merits of what we did, they’re going after it based on where we passed the legislation.”

Last week, Governor Reynolds said the changes to the Judicial Nominating Commission “give all Iowans a greater voice in the process.” The lawsuit filed by eight Democrats in the Iowa House also challenges a section of the plan that changes the term for the chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court — arguing that violates the separation of powers between the three branches of state government.