(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Atlantic Police Department reports numerous arrests and/or citations took place over the past few weeks. Most recently:

• Last Saturday (Nov. 12), 35-year-old Rinanten Amo, of Atlantic, was arrested for Public Intoxication, and, 23-year-old Logan Russell, of Atlantic, was arrested for OWI/1st offense, and Driving While License denied or revoked.
• On the 7th, 24-year-old Ason Pisalil, of Atlantic, was arrested for Disorderly Conduct.
• On Nov. 6th, 28-year-old Nicholas Renner, of Atlantic, was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault, Possession of a Controlled Substance (Marijuana), and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
• 75-year-old Rose Henderson, of Anita, was cited into court and then released November 4th, on a charge of Theft in the 4th Degree (Shoplifting); and, 36-year-old Sapas Ramisin, of Atlantic, was arrested for Public Intox. and Disorderly Conduct.
• Atlantic Police arrested 31-year-old Dillon Harry, of Orient, on Nov. 3rd. He was charged with OWI/1st offense.
• On Nov. 1st, 39-year-old Darryl Gillett, of Orlando, FL, was arrested for Public Intox.; and, Laura Jurchen was cited into court for Assault causing bodily injury, and then released at the scene.
• And finally, on October 18th, Atlantic Police cited Stephen Foote, of Atlantic into court, for Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Atlantic Police Department report a man was cited following a three vehicle accident Friday morning at 7th and Walnut Streets. Authorities say a vehicle driven by Case Arnold, of Atlantic, was traveling east on 7th Street at around 7:33-a.m. and approaching the intersection with Walnut Street. His traffic light was red. A Chevy Malibu driven by Chelsey Christensen, of Atlantic, was southbound on Walnut with a green traffic light, and an SUV driven by Richard Whetstone, of Atlantic, was northbound on Walnut, waiting on a red light to change green. Police says Arnold ran the red light and struck the Christensen car in the intersection and pushed that vehicle into the stopped SUV. 

The Chevy HHR Arnold was driving eventually struck a tree at 705 Walnut and came to rest. Case Arnold was transported by Cass EMS to Cass Health, for treatment of non-lifethreatening injuries. Christensen suffered non-lifethreatening injuries also, and went to the hospital in a private vehicle. Arnold was cited for Failure to Provide Insurance, Failure to Obey a Traffic Control Device, and having no valid Driver’s license. Damage to the primary crash vehicles was estimated at $15,000 each, while the Jeep SUV sustained about $3,000 damage.

(Radio Iowa) – Six people were killed in Texas after two historic military planes from the Commemorative Air Force collided midair and crashed Saturday during a Dallas air show. One of the planes was a B-17 bomber known as “Texas Raiders” that flew into Sioux City in July for the 80th anniversary of Sioux Gateway Airport. Larry Finley, director of Sioux City’s Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation, says the two pilots and the bomber’s crew members were all well trained. Finley says, “They’re all very experienced pilots and they are pilots for the Commemorative Air Force but they’re also pilots generally in commercial and military aviation, so they are a very experienced group.”

The restored World War Two-era bomber collided with a P-63 Kingcobra, a vintage fighter plane. Videos shot by spectators at the event show the Kingcobra fly into the bomber, causing them to immediately crash to the ground and explode. The National Transportation Safety Board had taken control of the crash scene and Finley says the investigation will be slow and methodical. “That can take a month or two for preliminary results from the NTSB, and then their final report may not be out for one to two years as far as the actual cause of the accident,” Finley says. “They have to go back and look at whatever parts are left that they can evaluate to see if it was a mechanical failure, or was it a human error.”

Commemorative Air Force “Texas Rangers” B-17.

Finley says Texas Raiders was one of just ten B-17s still in existence and just a couple of them were air-worthy.) “There were only three of the ten B-17s that were still flying. It was one of three that had returned to the air post-COVID,” he says. “They had pulled everything off from these air shows for almost two years.”

In July, the Texas Raiders flew for a week in Sioux City, with over a hundred people booking flights on the vintage aircraft.