COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – A man from California was sentenced on a drug charge Tuesday, in Council Bluffs United States District Court. Authorities say 35-year old Dmitry Alexander Borisov will serve 60 months (5-years) in prison, followed by four years of supervised released, for possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Borisov was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund. Borisov pleaded guilty to the offense on August 21, 2020.

On January 1, 2020, Borisov was driving a rental truck on Interstate 80. He was stopped for speeding by the Council Bluffs Police. While issuing a citation, a police dog alerted to the
presence of a controlled substance in Borisov’s vehicle. Law enforcement discovered that the truck contained over 1,200 pounds of marijuana.

The investigation was conducted by the Council Bluffs Police Department and the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Enforcement Task Force. The case was prosecuted by the United States
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports a woman from Stuart was arrested Wednesday night at the Union County Jail. 43-year old Dixie Lou Hernandez was taken into custody on a Union County warrant for Violation of Probation. She was being held in the Adams County Jail on behalf of Union County, with bond set at $2,000.

The Glenwood Police Department reports 41-year old Adam Woods, of Tabor, was arrested Wednesday, for OWI/1st offense. His cash/surety bond was set at $1,000. The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports 36-year old Jeffrey Thomas Olsufka, of Wayne, NE., was arrested Thursday evening for Possession of a Controlled Substance, and on two counts Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. His bond was set at $1,600.

Wednesday afternoon, 18-year old Cole Samuel Sherry, of Glenwood, was arrested at the Mills County Jail, for four counts of Conspiracy to Commit a Felony. His bond was set at $40,000. And, late Wednesday night, 24-year old Val Patrick Monteith, of Omaha, was arrested in Mils County for OWI/1st offense, with bond set at $1,000.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum reports on Tuesday, Dec. 15th, 37-year old John Randall Parson, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced in United States District Court to 51 months (a little more than 4 years) in prison, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.  His sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. Parson was also ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.  He plead guilty to the offense on July 24, 2020.

The investigation was conducted by the Council Bluffs Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The case was prosecuted by the United States
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa.

(Radio Iowa) – Outgoing Fourth District Iowa Congressman Steve King says he’s skeptical whether a COVID-19 relief package will be passed in the few remaining hours before the year-end holiday recess, and he’s disappointed with how Congress is conducting business. King, a Republican from Kiron, says the Democrats who hold the majority in the House are to blame, from the top down. King says, “I want to express how dysfunctional Congress is and I don’t mean this to just be tossing mud out of that place but it has gone downhill badly, especially with Nancy Pelosi as speaker.”

Because of the pandemic, King says there’s social distancing in Congress and a limited number of members are allowed on the floor at one time. He says tens of thousands of conversations -aren’t- taking place member-to-member which limits their ability to govern. “The decisions become evermore in Nancy Pelosi’s office and Mitch McConnell’s office and in the White House,” King says. “That’s why we don’t really have a good feel for whether there’s going to be a COVID relief package. They’ve sent a signal that they have a deal but I know they don’t or we would’ve voted on it.”

Congress is scheduled to adjourn for the year tomorrow (Friday) but first has to pass a spending plan that will allow the federal government to continue running. “We are going to get a spending package that keeps the government open,” King says. “I don’t think there’s going to be a government shutdown. It’ll at least be bridged into January if not further into the year. I do think there’s a COVID relief package that’s part of that or becomes a parallel bill along the way, too.”

He adds, “In the end, Congress will get its job done, I just don’t think it’s going to be pretty.” King lost his reelection bid in the Republican primary to Randy Feenstra, who won the general election and is now the congressman-elect. King maintains, he’s not going anywhere and says he wants to remain involved and assist with consulting on policy issues.

DENISON, Iowa (AP) — The former manager of a northwest Iowa credit union has pleaded not guilty in a nearly $1.5 million embezzlement scheme. Janine Keim is charged with embezzlement and making false statements. She entered her plea Wednesday in federal court in Sioux City. Prosecutors say Keim and at least one other employee at Consumers Credit Union in Denison embezzled $1.48 million between May 2012 and March 2018. She also allegedly filed false reports to conceal the missing money. The business is now called Cobalt Credit Union. The credit union’s former head teller, Brenda Jensen, of Denison, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in October to embezzlement.

Sheriff’s officials in Pottawattamie County report the following arrests or warrants served:

• On Dec. 16th at around 3:10-a.m., 28-year old Lathen Mikah Bills was arrested and cited for: Driving While License Denied/Suspended/Cancelled or Revoked; Failure to Maintain Control of a motor vehicle; and OWI/2nd offense. His arrested followed a traffic incident off 145th Street in Pott. County, south of Treasure Lane.
• 46-year old Mark Anthony Barron, SR., of Council Bluffs, and 32-year old Felicia Marie Redick, both of Council Bluffs, along with 34-year old Matthew Duane Gresser, were each served Tuesday at the Pott. County Jail, with separate warrants out of Douglas County, NE., for being a Fugitives from Justice. They were subsequently returned to the custody of Corrections staff after being formally presented with their respective warrants.
• Early Tuesday morning, 77-year old Theodore Willard Greenlee was arrested under the authority of a Nebraska warrant for Being a Fugitive from Justice. He was taken into custody following a traffic stop at the intersection of Highway 6 and 340th Street.
• And, Monday afternoon, Pott. County Jail inmate, 59-year old Brenda Lynn Peterson, of Carter Lake, was served with a warrant for two counts Violation of Probation. She was then returned to the custody of jail staff.

The driver of a 2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse told Guthrie County Sheriff’s Deputies he thinks he fell asleep at the wheel, Wednesday morning, causing his vehicle to leave the road and come to rest in a ditch. The accident happened at as 18-year old Blaine Dudley, of Coon Rapids, was traveling east on Highway 151 at Highway 4, at around 6:35-a.m. Dudley – who was wearing a seat belt – complained of pain and possible/unknown injuries. He was transported by Panora EMS to the Greene County Hospital, to be checked-out. His vehicle sustained $4,500 damage.