(Greenfield, Iowa) – Adair County Sheriff Jeff Vandewater, Monday night, released his weekly report on arrests. The Sheriff says 31-year-old Hailey Elizabeth Hart, of Diagonal, was arrested at around 2:30-a.m. Saturday, for OWI/1st offense, after a Deputy in a marked patrol vehicle parked in the Orient-Macksburg School parking lot, saw an SUV fail to stop at the intersection of Division and School Streets. A subsequent traffic stop on the vehicle determined Hart’s Breath Alcohol Content measured more than .08-percent. A follow-up test for Blood Alcohol Contact (BAC) at the Sheriff’s Office determined her level of intoxication was .153-percent, or nearly twice the legal limit. Hart was cited and later released.

At around 10:44-a.m. Thursday, Sept. 8th, 28-year-old Tray D. Anderson, of Exira, was arrested in Greenfield, on an Adair County warrant for Violation of Probation. His cash or surety (c/s) bond was set at $2,000.

And, there were two separate arrests Sept. 6th, in Adair County. 54-year-old James Mut Nyang, of Omaha, was arrested by the Iowa State Patrol near mile marker 89 on Interstate 80, at around 4-p.m. on the 6th. His arrest came after a Trooper saw someone kneeling down next to the rear, driver’s side door, and reaching inside. When he pulled up behind the car to check on the status of the driver, the Trooper saw two small children standing on the back seat and an adult male searching under the driver’s seat for something.

As he made contact with the driver, the Trooper saw an open bottle of liquor in the center console cup holder, and the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from the driver – subsequently identified as Nyang. His preliminary breath test exceeded .08%. Nyang was transported to the Adair County Jail and a second test registered .209% BAC. Nyang was booked into the jail on charges that include two-counts of Child Endangerment and OWI/2nd offense. His cash or surety bond was set at $2,000.

And, at around 4:13-a.m. on Sept. 6th, 55-year-old Gregory Alan Meierotto, of Keokuk, was arrested by Police in Stuart, for Driving While Barred. His arrest followed a complaint about an SUV that was “all over the road,” westbound on I-80 from mile marker 110. A Stuart Police Officer responded and caught up with the suspect vehicle. He questioned Meierotto, who said he was very tired and falling asleep at the wheel. He also said he did not have a driver’s license, because it had been suspended. He was barred on May 24, 2022.  The man later posted a $2,000 c/s bond.

(Guthrie County, Iowa) – A rollover accident Thursday afternoon in Guthrie County, was discovered after Guthrie County Chief Deputy Jeremy Bennett – who was off-duty – overheard what he thought was a traffic collision. Bennett traveled to the area where he believed the crash to have occurred, and found a 2004 Chevy Impala in its top in the south ditch, off Wagon Road. The accident happened at around 4:50-p.m.

Chief Deputy Bennett saw the driver of the car, 65-year-old Joan L. Anderson, of Menlo, still inside the car. Bennett was able to extricate Anderson from the vehicle. She was checked out by Panora EMS crews, and determined to suffered no significant injuries.

An investigation revealed Anderson was traveling eastbound on Wagon Road, when her car exited the road to the right, entered the south ditch, and flipped onto its top. The car sustained $10,000 damage and was a total loss. No citations were issued.

(Radio Iowa) – Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) cut the ribbon on their new Criminal Justice Training Center on their Ankeny campus Friday. Center Coordinator Craig Matzke says it allows them to set up realistic crime scenes to help train students. He says the center can also be used to train professionals in the field as well. Matzke says once students collect evidence, they go through it and try to solve the crime that is staged at the center.

“It’s a new facility so that it gives them a blank slate to operate off of and train to the discipline, which they need the most training with,” he says. Matzke says they can create all kinds of scenarios in a controlled environment for students. He says it’s better to train ahead of time rather than try to learn out on the streets at a potential crime scene.

He says they learn the proper way of handling and collecting and documenting evidence and creating a chain of custody. They can go back and perform tests on the evidence within a certain scope of available equipment, and then learn how to best present that evidence for successful prosecution. Matzke says the faculty all have been out in the field at one time.

“All of our instructional staff have real world experience in law enforcement agencies. And in addition to that, we also have a great working relationship with area law enforcement agencies, E-M-S, and those other entities that we call upon to give us a guiding hand and setting up scenarios, giving us ideas on what we should focus on,” he says.
All that experience helps give the students a real test.

“They can replicate those scenes and put them in the environment that they would actually be in. So it adds a real sense of realism,” Matzke says. Matzke says it’s another way to prepare the students to enter the real world of investigation and law enforcement.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports four recent arrests. Sunday night, 37-year-old Santos Alejandro Rodriguez-Herrera, of Nebraska City, NE., was arrested for Public Intoxication ($300 bond). And, 23-year-old Blaine Michael Clark, of Omaha, was arrested at around 2:25-a.m. Sunday on Highway 34, for Driving While Barred and on a warrant for Failure to Appear (in court). (Bond $2,000)

Friday evening, 37-year-old Jacob Ryan Jones, of Glenwood, was arrested in the area of Deacon Road and Highway 34, for Driving Under Suspension (Bond $300). And, Friday morning, 43-year-old Tonya Marie Glathar, of Glenwood, was arrested at 310th and Highway 34, for Possession of a Controlled Substance and Poss. of Drug Paraphernalia. (Bond $1,300).