Sheriff’s deputies in Montgomery County arrested two people, Friday. 59-year old Thomas Oscar Anderson, of Red Oak, was arrested on a Magistrate warrant for Violation of a No Contact Order. He was later released on his own recognizance. And, 50-year old Rene Telesforo Valdivia, of Colorado, was arrested on a Bench Warrant for Burglary in the 3rd Degree. Bond was set at $7,500.

Creston Police report four recent arrests. On Sunday (4/21), 56-year old Thomas Leroy Patterson, of Creston, was arrested at 315 W Adams for Disorderly Conduct. Patterson was transported to the Union County Jail where he bonded out on $300 bond. Saturday afternoon, 43-year old Richard Wade Starlin, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, for OWI 1st. Starlin was released from the Union County Jail on a $1000 bond.

And last Friday, 19-year old Patrick Nychylas Leigh Farlow, of Clarinda, was arrested at 300 N Pine for Escape of Custody and on an Outside agency warrant. He is being held in the Union County Jail on a $3000 cash bond. Also, 35-year old Jaime Torres, of Creston, was arrested in the 300 block New York Av for Domestic Abuse Assault by Strangulation. He was released from the Union County Jail on a $2000 bond.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A Dubuque man accused of abandoning two dogs that officials say had injuries “consistent with dogfighting” has pleaded not guilty. The Telegraph Herald reports that 31-year-old Eric Tillis entered pleas last week to charges of abandonment and of neglect. His trial is scheduled to begin June 17. Court documents say officers sent Jan. 26 to investigate a report about abandoned dogs found two dogs in kennels without food or water. The documents say both dogs had several scratches and scars “consistent with dogfighting.”

Investigators say Tillis and 21-year-old Alexia Ball had lived at the residence with the dogs but had moved out days earlier. Ball also has pleaded not guilty to charges of animal abandonment and animal neglect.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A man has been accused of stealing drugs from an ambulance at a Dubuque hospital. Dubuque County court records say 31-year-old London Gavin is charged with theft. The Telegraph Herald reports that an ambulance worker told police that Gavin had ridden in the ambulance Thursday as she and others took a patient to MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center. She noticed after talking to hospital staffers that vials of morphine and ketamine she’d placed on the ambulance cot were missing.

A court document says a surveillance recording showed Gavin grabbing something off the cot while the ambulance worker was talking to the hospital staffers. The document says the drugs turned up when Gavin emptied his sweatshirt pocket for police.

(Radio Iowa) — What’s being called a “sober living home” will open soon in Sioux City to help men who are struggling with addiction who may also be homeless. Hope Street of Siouxland has five bedrooms and ten beds, a kitchen, living room and showers, and staff members want to add a pool table. Program Director Sara Johnson says the goal is for people to feel at home while on the road to recovery. “And we’re really intentionally choosing to create a family for those individuals who are going to live here,” Johnson says.

Clients will have access to a case manager and nearby addiction treatment services in downtown Sioux City. “If you’re coming out of prison, if you’re detoxing from the hospital and you don’t have a space to come,” Johnson says, “we’re able to take those individuals.”  She says Hope Street will try to help combat the addiction cycle — where people tend to go back and forth between living on the streets and going to the hospital or going to jail. “We’re going to be another option for them to have some safe living space and hopefully, help change that cycle and really address what their basic needs are, whether it’s mental health, addiction, employment,” she says.

The facility is scheduled to open in the next couple of weeks. People will have to apply for a place in the home.

(Thanks to Katie Peikes, Iowa Public Radio)

Red Oak Police, Sunday night, arrested a man from Nebraska, following a reported family dispute. Officers arriving at a home in the 100 block of E. Corning Street, a little after 8:20-p.m. arrested 57-year old Terry L. Studey, of Papillion, NE., for Disorderly Conduct and Public Intoxication. Studey was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.