(Glenwood, Iowa) – Police in Glenwood report a man from Glenwood was arrested today (Tuesday), for Possession of Marijuana/3rd offense. 58-year-old Ralph Springs was being held in the Mills County Jail on a $2,000 cash or surety bond.

DES MOINES, IA – The U-S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa reports that on November 2, 2023, a Des Moines man was sentenced to 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to the crime of transportation of child pornography and two additional years for violating his term of federal supervised release.

In 2022, Adam Christopher Evans, 39, amassed an extensive collection of child sexual abuse material. Over several months, Evans stockpiled over 500 images and 69 videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including infants and toddlers.

In 2021, Evans was convicted in federal court of failure to register as a sex offender. He was required to register as a sex offender because of a 2011 conviction for sexual exploitation of a minor under Iowa law. Evan’s supervised release was revoked, and he was sentenced to two years consecutive to his 32-year sentence.

Following his prison term, Evans will be required to serve 10 years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

Homeland Security Investigations and the United States Probation Office investigated this case. Assistant United States Attorney Laura M. Roan prosecuted the case.

The case was prosecuted as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s “Project Safe Childhood” initiative, which was started in 2006 as a nationwide effort to combine law enforcement investigations and prosecutions, community action, and public awareness in order to reduce the incidence of sexual exploitation of children. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc and click on the resources tab.

The Holocaust Rails exhibit at the Sioux City Railroad Museum has become a busy place for student tours. Lou Ann Linblade help create the exhibit that is a replica of the cattle cars that the Nazis used to transport European Jews to concentration camps.

The exhibit opened in the fall of 2022 and Linblade says they offer a special lesson plan to teachers based on the exhibit displays.

The exhibit was created as part of “Tolerance Week” and includes photos of Holocaust camp prisoners and video displays, along with numerous items donated by concentration camp survivors and their families.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in Mills County report two men were recently arrested on separate drug charges. 18-year-old Anthony Emmaunel-Dwight Vassar, of Saint Joseph, MO., was arrested at around 11:10-p.m. Monday following  a traffic stop on I-29 at mile marker 43. Vassar was charged with Possession of Controlled Substance. His bond was set at  $1,000. And, at around 3-p.m. Monday, 31-year-old Keith Allen Wise, of Council Bluffs, was arrested at 287th and 3rd Streets in Mills County, for  Possession of Controlled Substance, Domestic Abuse Assault 1st and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Wise was being held without bond in the Mills County Jail.

At around 10:37-p.m. Monday, Mills County Deputies arrested 43-year-old Renne Lynn Adams, of Hastings, for OWI/1st offense. Her bond was set at $1,000.