Two recent high-profile fires in Sioux City have those of us who listen to police scanners for a living a little more on edge.
Officials stopped short of calling the fires arson (called them “suspicious”), but we in the media are playing close attention anyway.
Let’s just say the words “possible structure fire” really grab our attention these days.
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Flashing red and blue lights inspire some suspects to rev the engine, mash the accelerator to the floor and speed away until they crash or drive across a set of stop sticks.
Much like Pablo Elias-Lopez is accused of doing on June 19.
(P.S. I knew that name was familiar)
This is not one of those suspects. (more…)
A Sioux City man is scheduled to go to court next week for allegedly biting a police officer during an arrest.
According to court documents, Jonathan Robert Seff, 34, began screaming and yelling at police while they were investigating an early-morning accident Sunday at the corner of 28th Street and Floyd Boulevard in Sioux City.
A Sioux City man faces multiple charges after police say he drove drunk with his 6-year-old nephew in the car.
Sioux City Police Sgt. Mike McCormick said Lucas Bryan Treetop, 26, was driving 11 miles over the speed limit when he was stopped by police about 1:30 a.m. Friday morning
According to the Woodbury Jail booking log, Treetop was arrested for a felony charge of neglect of a dependent person.
He also was booked on misdemeanor charges of operating while intoxicated, open container violation, driving without a license, driving without insurance and speeding.
Police say Treetop’s 6-year-old nephew was in the vehicle with him, but was not injured in the incident.
Welcome to the Crime Blog’s first-ever Drug Case Appreciation Week.
Several people have been arrested and charged with interesting drug-related offenses so I’m going to feature them the rest of the week.
Most aren’t interesting due to the amount of drugs seized, although today’s case includes a hefty load of marijuana, but because of what people allegedly say and do when they are arrested.
Today’s case made the blog not only for what a suspect is accused of saying, but also because it was allegedly said to a child protective services worker.
Three men allegedly involved in a fight on June 2 were in for a big surprise when they took a dive in the middle of battle.
According to the Sioux City police log, the incident was reported about 8:50 p.m. at 2008 Ingleside Ave.
Less than two weeks since 3-year-old Evelyn Verdugo Paniagua was killed, there’s already a folder stuffed with court documents from State of Nebraska v. Melecio Camacho-De Jesus sitting on my desk.
The first page, however, isn’t about Camacho-De Jesus – the man arrested for allegedly raping and killing the South Sioux City toddler.
It’s a pamphlet from Evelyn’s public memorial held last week in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa.
A woman was arrested Tuesday for allegedly obstructing entrance to Planned Parenthood in Sioux City.
According to the Woodbury County Jail’s arrest log, Thelma Kay Forsling, 59, was arrested at 8:37 a.m. for misdemeanor charges of failure to obey a police officer and criminal trespassing.
For years, volunteers have placed approximately 3,000 American flags at the graves of veterans in Mount Hope, Port Huron Allied Veterans and Lakeside cemeteries in Port Huron, Mich.
For the first time anyone can remember (and I once talked to a woman who’d been placing flags for 75 years), someone — or something — was stealing those flags from graves in a section of the Mount Hope Cemetery.
Ruthlessly ripping them right off the pole.