A man serving a 25-year sentence out of Black Hawk County for 1st degree burglary and possession of a firearm, was reported as escaped Thursday, after he failed to return from a work release facility. 25-year old Armando Adame III was transferred to the Waterloo Work Release Facility in June, under authority of the Iowa Board of Parole.

Adame is a white male, 6-feet tall, with black hair, brown eyes and tattoos on his back, left and right calves, chest, left hand and left wrist.

Armando Adame

He also has scars on his back, left forearm, right hand, neck, left and right shoulders. The man weighs about 177-pounds. (You can see a picture of him under this same story on the News page at kjan.com)

If you know of his location call the Waterloo Police Department, Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office, or your local law enforcement agency.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Authorities say they’re looking for two suspects in connection to a stolen car that reportedly crashed into a house in Sioux City. The Sioux City Police Department says it received a report Thursday night of a vehicle that damaged the side of a house.

Michael Vogt tells Sioux City television station KTIV he reported the car stolen earlier in the day. He later told police he spotted the car in use on the street while he was driving another vehicle. Vogt says he chased it. Vogt told police he saw a man and woman jump out of the stolen car before it hit the house. He says the suspects ran away on foot.

Officials with the Iowa Dept. of Public Safety report one person has been arrested in connection with the June 29^th, 2016 robbery of a bank in Fort Madison. 56-year old Kenneth Lee Lilly, of Fort Madison, was arrested on charges that include Aiding and Abetting, and Robbery in the 1^st Degree, which is a felony punishably by up to 25-years in prison. Lilly was taken into custody following an investigation into the robbery of the Fort Madison Bank and Trust.

The investigation was conducted by the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Iowa State Patrol (ISP), Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Department of Natural Resource and the Lee County Attorney’s Office.

Three people from Texas were injured during a collision early this (Friday) morning, in central Iowa’s Warren County. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2017 Toyota RAV 4 driven by a man from Des Moines, struck a deer on southbound Interstate 35, and was disabled in the left lane. A 2014 Nissan Versa, driven by 47-year old Gerardo Lara, of Amarillo, TX, struck the Toyota in the rear.

Lara, and his passengers, Michael Huelster, of Amarillo, and Juan Solis, of Roscoe, TX, were injured and transported by Norwalk EMS to Methodist Hospital. The accident happened at around 1-a.m., today (Friday).

The Iowa State Patrol reports one person died and two others were injured during a crash Thursday night in northern Iowa’s Butler County. A 2000 Ford F-150 pickup was traveling east on County Road C-33, about a mile east of Willow Avenue, when the vehicle drifted off the road and into the south ditch, where it struck a box culvert.

The driver of the pickup, 44-year old Matthew DeWitt, of Shell Rock, and a passenger, 28-year old Andrew Baker, of Waverly, were injured. Baker was not wearing a seat belt. Both were transported by ambulance to the hospital in Waverly. A second passenger, 41-year old Jeffrey DeWitt, of Shell Rock, who was wearing a seat belt, died at the hospital.

The accident, which happened at around 7:06-p.m., Thursday, remains under investigation.

Police in Red Oak, Thursday evening, arrested 31-year old Colbie Jo Sue Fike, of Red Oak. Fike was taken into custody at around 6:50-p.m. for Driving While Suspended, (a simple misdemeanor) and on a valid Red Oak P-D warrant for ID Theft (an aggravated misdemeanor). She was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $2,000 cash bond.