LaVon Eblen visits with Brandi Mericle of the Cass County Landfill.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man has been imprisoned for video recording girls in the bathroom of his West Des Moines record store. The Polk County District Court clerk’s office says 50-year-old Robert Kuhn was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison. Kuhn was found guilty last month of three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and three counts of invasion of privacy.
Kuhn was arrested in 2017 after a girl who had worked for him told police she found a video camera hidden on a shelf in the bathroom after Kuhn had asked her to try on dresses. Federal prosecutors also had filed a child pornography charge but later dropped it.
The Cass County Sheriff’s Office today (Friday) issued a report detailing nearly a dozen arrests that have occurred since Oct. 28th. Beginning with the most recent arrests:
The Cass County Sheriff’s Office today (Friday) released a report on recent accident investigations. Authorities say that a weather-related accident happened at around 2:07-a.m. Monday, on eastbound Interstate 80. A 1999 Ford F-350 owned and driven by 33-year old Joshua Wayne Andrews, of Lead, SD, was towing a Volkswagen Jetta on I-80, when Andews lost control of the pickup. The towed vehicle jackknifed and struck the Ford on both sides. Both vehicles then struck a cable barrier and came to rest facing westbound. No injuries were reported. Damage to the Ford is estimated at $2,000; damage to the towed Volkswagen is estimated at $1,600.
And, at around 5:50-p.m. November 8th, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a two-vehicle accident on 650th Street in Cass County. A 2004 Chevy Silverado driven by 50-year old Cirilo Hernandez Garcia, of Marshalltown, was pulling out a driveway and struck a 2009 Chevy CBT owned and driven by 23-year old Jeremy Robert Albert, of Kimballton. Albert suffered unknown injuries, and was transported to Cass County Memorial Hospital by private vehicle. Damage to his vehicle was estimated at $3,000; damage to Garcia’s vehicle was estimated at $4,000. Hernandez Garcia was cited for Failure to Yield Upon Entering Through Roadway.
(Radio Iowa) — All classes and activities are cancelled through Sunday after a threat was made against a northeast Iowa school district. Officials with the Benton Community School District say they’re working with the FBI to find whoever is responsible for the threat, though they’re not saying how it was received. The violence was reportedly directed at the combined middle and high school in Van Horne. In addition to classes being cancelled, a host of academic and sports practices and events are cancelled, from drivers ed courses to wrestling meets.
(Radio Iowa) — The Iowa State Patrol is investigating a deadly crash on Thursday in south-central Iowa’s Decatur County. Troopers say a pickup truck crossed the center line of a county road, forcing an oncoming septic pump truck to pull onto the shoulder, but it was still hit by the pickup, rolling the pump truck into the ditch. The pickup ended up in the opposite ditch, killing its driver, identified as 34-year-old Curtis Cowling, of Garden Grove. Two men in the pump truck were hurt and taken to Decatur County Hospital for treatment.
In a brief, Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s report this (Friday) morning, authorities said there were no arrests over the previous 24-hours, but there were two prisoner transfers to the jail. 30-year old Joshua James Dyer, of Council Bluffs, was transported from the Shelby County Jail to Pott. County, where he was wanted on a warrant for Violation of Parole, and on a Hold for another agency. And, 44-year old Jennifer Lee Rousseau, of Fremont, NE., was transported from the Saunders County, NE., jail to Pott. County, where she was wanted on a warrant for Violation of Probation.
The Cass County Conservation Board is holding a Bird House Workshop next Saturday (Nov. 23rd). The workshop will be held at the Outdoor Educational Classroom in Massena, beginning at 9-a.m. All ages are welcome! During the workshop, you’ll learn all about making bird houses. You can make a bird house and take it home afterward, for a suggested donation. Suggested donations for House Wren house $8, Bluebird $8, and Kestrel house $10. The event s for people of all ages. Children must be accompanied by adult.
Please pre-register by November 18th by calling 712-769-2372 or email lkanning@casscoia.us.
JOHN YOKIMISHYN, 75, of Atlantic, died Friday, Nov. 15th, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital, in Council Bluffs. A Celebration of Life for JOHN YOKIMISHYN will be held 1-p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23rd, at the Roland Funeral Home, in Atlantic.
There is no visitation. Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
Burial will be held at a later date at the Southlawn Cemetery in Atlantic.
JOHN YOKIMISHYN is survived by:
His wife – Sharon Yokimishyn
His daughter – Sherry (Kirk) Marcuson, of Kansas City, MO.
His sons – Steven Yokimishyn, of Omaha, and David (Nicci) Yokimishyn, of Wesley (IA).
as well as 7 grandchildren.
More State and area news from KJAN News Director Ric Hanson.
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