Pittsburg man arrested for alleged child rape
Staff Reports / news@morningsun.net
PITTSBURG, Kan. A local man was arrested Thursday for multiple counts of alleged rape of a child, the Pittsburg Police Department has announced.
Gerald Laverne Simmons, 59, of Pittsburg, turned himself in Thursday afternoon and was taken into custody “as the result of a swift investigation initiated on June 29, 2021, where Simmons was accused of inappropriate sexual contact with children under 14 years of age,” the police department said in a press release. “This sexual contact is alleged to have occurred over the course of the past two years.”
Simmons was transported to the Crawford County Jail, where he was being held Friday in lieu of a $100,000 bond.
Woman arrested for fatal western Iowa shooting
Beth Guzman
Posted: Feb 22, 2021 4:38 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
DOW CITY, Iowa – A woman has been charged with murder after a small town shooting in western Iowa.
The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office says it responded Sunday night to an anonymous call from a concerned citizen about the welfare of a friend. Deputies say they arrived at a home in the 500 block of East Fulton in Dow City to find Jeremy Frank, 46, bleeding and unresponsive.
Frank was taken to Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison where he was pronounced dead of a single gunshot wound. An autopsy is pending with the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny.
“He’s got two broken legs and his internal organs are a mess. He’s got brain swelling so they had to drill a hole in his skull so that wouldn’t kill him,” Mallicoat said. “He’s in a lot of pain. But he’s one hell of a trooper.”
The Iowa State Patrol said in a news release that Hardisty was driving north on J Avenue, also known as County Road P58, when Wink crossed over into the northbound lane and hit her car head-on. Impairment is believed to have played a part in the crash, the release said.