Police seize apartment house after owner enters drug plea
Des Moines police seized a 24 story apartment building after owner Floyd Loggins pleaded guilty to delivering cocaine under a state asset seizure law. Officials also pursue a 320 acre Dickinson County farm worth about 450000 after alleged marijuana cultivation. The raid on the four unit building was the third in less than a year with drugs narcotics and money seized each time. Police push to use property seizure to curb narcotics traffic.
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Floyd Loggins
Lamasvin Brewer
Bancroft audit reveals unauthorized overtime payments
Bancroft City Administrator Bill Carey announced a spiral audit found more than 4500 hours of unauthorized overtime paid to deputy city clerk Darlene Menke over ten years. Overtime hourly rates ranged from 6 to 9 dollars. total dollar amount unavailable. Menke faces suspension with pay to be determined, with restitution hoped. No criminal charges filed. Bancroft, Iowa, population about 1000.
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Darlene Menke
Menke
Iowa
Suspects in Sheldon jewelry store robbery arrested
FBI agents in California arrested two men identified as Victor and Canute Jones on armed robbery warrants from Sheldon Iowa for the August 14 Mastbergen Jewelry heist. A 17-year-old girl accompanied them. The suspects were held for extradition to Iowa. No injuries reported. The robbers allegedly assaulted the Sheldon police chief during the getaway.
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FBI
San Diego
Victor
Canute Jones
Sheldon Police
Iowa
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Union objects to Burlington school instruction program
Burlington union officials say the 88 000 School Improvement Model plan designed by Iowa State University professor Richard Manatt is inflexible and too rigid for teachers styles. BEA negotiator Jim Upton argues it threatens classroom creativity and was chosen without member involvement. District officials defend the program as flexible and research based. The 36 month plan could start this fall with payments not yet made.
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Burlington
Iowa State University
Richard Manatt
Jim Upton
Burlington Education Association
Upton
BEA
Joe Pacha
Manatt
Pacha
New trial set in Jones County sex abuse case
A new trial date was set in Jones County District Court for Sammy Joe Barbour, 34, Bellevue, on second degree sexual abuse charges. The December 7 trial was delayed to complete an evaluation at Oakdale, tied to a Jackson County case accusing Barbour of first degree kidnapping during March incidents near Wyoming. Other court actions include several defendants pleaded innocent or scheduled for November and December trials, with various DUI and drug charges and a 1957 West Side Story Broadway note.
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Jones County
Sammy Joe Barour
Bellevue
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Jackson County
Wyoming
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Alin
Monticello
James Carlton Ahrendsen
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