The Creston Police Department reports 29-year old Terry Ray Hankins Lund, Jr., of Creston, was arrested Wednesday morning at his home, on three Union County warrants. The warrants were for: charges of Criminal Mischief in the 2nd degree & burglary in the 2nd; Criminal Mischief in the 3rd degree & Domestic Abuse Assault; and, Obstruction of Emergency Communications. Lund, Jr.’s bond was set at $10,300, with no bond on the assault and 3rd degree Criminal Mischief charges. He remains in the Union County Jail.

25-year old Zachariah Benn, of Creston, was arrested late Wednesday evening at his home, on a Union County warrant for Failure to Appear for a jail sentence, with regard to an original charge of Driving While Barred. Benn was being held in the Union County Jail, until the balance of his sentence is complete. 30-year old Kayla Hoffman, of Creston, was arrested at her home Wednesday morning, on a Union County warrant for Failure to Appear on the original charge of Theft in the 5th degree. She was being held for Union County in the Adams County Jail, on a $300 bond. At the same residence, 30-year old Caleb Fredrickson, of Creston, was arrested on Union County warrants for Failure to Appear on a Theft in the 3rd degree charge, and Violation of Probation. He was also charged with Driving while Suspended. Fredrickson was being held in the Union County Jail on a total of $12,300 bond.

Creston Police said also, a man residing in the 400 block of N. Poplar Street reported Wednesday, that sometime over the past two- or three-months, someone stole a gun from the glovebox of his vehicle. The Smith and Wesson .38-caliber handgun was valued at $450.

(Radio Iowa) — Two competing Iowa-based convenience store chains are working together to raise awareness about human trafficking. Casey’s General Stores and Kum-and-Go are training their 25-hundred employees through “C-SAT,” Convenience Stores Against Trafficking. Casey’s spokesman Mike Richardson says workers in the industry’s stores, which are open round-the-clock, are in a unique position to help.

“Our employees will be trained in the next three-to-four weeks probably everyone will be completed in order to watch for any signs of human trafficking,” Richardson says. “On top of that, we’ll be placing stickers in the restrooms to either write the number down or text it to somebody that they are actually in that situation.”

Des Moines-based Kum & Go has almost 400 stores in 11 states while Casey’s, headquartered in Ankeny, has 21-hundred stores in 16 states.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An Idaho man has pleaded guilty to trying to influence a victim of his brother’s investment scheme. U.S. District Court records say David Emerson Smith, of Pocatello, Idaho, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. A sentencing hearing has not been scheduled.

Smith’s brother, Darrell Smith, of Forest City, Iowa, was sentenced in October to 14 years and seven months in prison. He’d pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft in connection with the investment of clients’ money into an ethanol plant in Hopkinton.

Prosecutors say Darrell Smith had David Smith contact a woman who lost nearly $162,000 in his brother’s scheme and offered her money, tax credits and shares in an energy company if she’d stop complaining to authorities about the amount of her loss.