Arrests

Complaints, citations, arrests down in Le Mars for 2009 (02/26/10)
Good news comes from the the Le Mars Police Department 2009 annual report. The report indicated numbers were down for six categories: accidents, arrests and juvenile charges, citations and warnings, complaints investigated by officers and calls for service...

Le Mars man arrested for car theft (09/29/09)
The Minnesota State Patrol stopped a Le Mars man who allegedly stole $1,745 worth of possessions and a car from a man staying at a Le Mars motel. According to a Le Mars Police report, Zakaria Hussein Ahmed, 20, allegedly entered a hotel room at the Bel Air Motel at about 1:45 a.m. Sunday where Aaron Engen, of Bemidji, Minn., was sleeping...

Twenty-eight minute chase leads to arrest (09/25/09)
A 28-minute chase that involved officers from eight agencies culminated in a crash and the arrest of an O'Brien County man Thursday. The incident unfolded like this, according to a Plymouth County Sheriff's report. At about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the sheriff's office received word that Michael Lindgren, 35, wanted for burglary in the third degree in O'Brien County, was in the Le Mars area...

Two suspects nabbed in Mr. P's burglary (08/06/09)
The police arrested two men for allegedly breaking into Mr. P's Pizza and Sports Grill early Sunday morning and stealing two large-screen TVs, two cash drawers and a safe. David Lee Rosales, 24, of Le Mars, and Anthony David Rodriguez, 21, of Le Mars were arrested and booked into the Plymouth County Jail Wednesday...

Officer injured in arrest (07/31/09)
A Le Mars police officer was injured in a scuffle that ensued after attempting to make an arrest early Friday morning. Officers attempted to serve a warrant on Jaime Avila, 22, of Le Mars, at the Hi Lite bar for an outstanding warrant for serious assault...

Man charged with assaulting woman with putty knife (05/11/09)
A Kingsley man was arrested Friday morning at the Wells' Dairy North Ice Cream Plant in Le Mars after he allegedly assaulted a female employee by placing a putty knife against her throat, according to the Le Mars Police. Jeston Abon, 38, also an employee at the plant, was arrested at about 7:39 a.m. after allegedly assaulting both that female and a male employee who came to the aid of the female, according to the police report...

Rural Le Mars man arrested for possible sexual abuse (05/07/09)
A 31-year-old rural Le Mars man was arrested Wednesday for possible sexual abuse against a child younger than 12. Patrick Elmer Klein faces two counts of sexual abuse in the second degree, class B felonies. Sexual abuse in the second degree involves sexual abuse in which the victim is under the age of 12...

Drug stings lead to five Le Mars arrests (04/30/09)
A man was arrested early this morning at the former church building he lives in for allegedly selling marijuana. Senglem Eric Wong, 40, of Le Mars was one of five drug arrests in two drug stings that took place Wednesday night and Thursday morning in Le Mars...

Police see complaint, arrest numbers fall (04/16/09)
Le Mars Police records show that in the past year, complaints are down. Tickets are down. Arrests are down. Is Le Mars simply becoming a more law-abiding community? Police Chief Stu Dekkenga said he'd like to think so, but he's not jumping to conclusions...

Sioux City man bites ear in fight outside bar (04/06/09)
A Sioux City man faces a felony charge after allegedly biting part of a Le Mars man's ear off early Sunday morning. Kenneth Rader, 41, of Sioux City was being ejected from the Hi-Lite bar in Le Mars for being "assaultive and disorderly" at about 2:13 a.m., according to the police...

Man arrested at meth lab near Hinton (01/12/09)
Investigators shut down an active meth lab on an abandoned farm site near Hinton and arrested the suspected meth cook last Thursday. Marlo Arthur Petersen, 34, of Onawa, was discovered upstairs in the house on the property at 30894 Kestrel Avenue -- the same house where Plymouth County Sheriff Deputies found a clandestine methamphetamine lab, according to a report from the sheriff's office...

Le Mars Man charged in drug arrest (11/26/08)
A Le Mars man was arrested Nov. 13 for three drug charges. Angel Jeffrey Hernandez, 28, was charged with conspiracy to deliver cocaine and conspiracy to deliver marijuana, both felonies, and gathering where drugs are used, a serious misdemeanor. Hernandez was arrested by the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department at 11:54 p.m. at 24 Riverview Drive...

Third suspect arrested in grocery store theft (10/01/08)
A 20-year-old Sergeant Bluff man turned himself in to the Le Mars Police after a warrant for his arrest was issued regarding a Merrill auto theft and a burglary at Rincon Tapatio grocery store in Le Mars. Tyler Hickson is charged with burglary in the third degree in regards to a Sept. 17 break-in at the store on Central Avenue in Le Mars, where thieves broke the front door window and stole the cash register with an unreleased amount of cash, plus some candy, the police said...

When mommy is arrested: Police plan for children on the scene (08/18/08)
Patrol cars pull up to a house, looking for an adult suspect. They enter the house to make an arrest. There, on the couch, an eight year old is reading a book. Suddenly, the plan changes. "Kids are so impressionable," said Le Mars Police Chief Stu Dekkenga. "It's a big deal, removing a parent. You don't want to traumatize the child."...

New charges filed against Holst regarding shotgun incident (08/14/08)
The man who allegedly shot at a car after reportedly being bothered by someone ringing his doorbell now faces two felony charges. Gary Holst, 68, of southern Le Mars, was originally arrested Saturday night after two people complained to the Le Mars Police about gunshots that evening. Holst was charged with reckless use of a firearm causing damage, jailed, and released after posting his $2,000 bond...

Local business reacts to scam artists (06/02/08)
There's a new sign at the Le Mars Truck Stop cash register. "We are NOT a bank." General Manager Kent Hanstein posted it after a scam artist asking for change walked away with $90. A quick thinking clerk caught the man's license plates and tipped off the police, who arrested the man and a friend...

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