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Police stay busy during break
Kurtis Hiatt - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 3/24/08 Section: Metro
While Iowa City police officers likely didn't have as many college students to cite for PAULAs or to arrest on public-intoxication charges over spring break, they did deal with a handful of other incidents.
Topping the past week's events was the March 21 arrest of a Missouri man accused of assaulting Iowa City police Officer Chad Wallace.
The arrest comes after more than a three-month investigation.
Antoine Falls, 21, Marshall, Mo., is charged with assault on a peace officer after he reportedly assaulted Wallace Dec. 8, 2007, when he was on foot patrol in the Pheasant Ridge Apartment Complex, 2626 Bartelt Road.
Falls fled the scene, but police discovered a cell phone that he may have dropped. The phone later reportedly linked Falls to the incident.
Wallace returned to his regular police duties March 13.
Iowa City police made two arrests in a separate forgery case March 21 stemming from a March 18 incident when a husband and wife and another man allegedly tried to pass fake $100 bills at Kmart, 851 Hollywood Blvd., and Cigarette Outlet, 1901 Hollywood Blvd.
Katrice O'Neal, 24, 1960 Broadway Apt. B7, faces two counts of forgery, and Derrick Schaeffer, 29, of the same address, is charged with aiding and abetting. All the charges are felonies.
According to reports, O'Neal passed a $100 bill with Schaeffer to buy toilet paper and children's tights at Kmart around 1 p.m. March 18. An unidentified man with them but in a different checkout line also tried to pass a bill, which employees denied. The trio reportedly fled the store, and O'Neal then allegedly went to Cigarette Outlet around 7 p.m. to buy cigarettes with another fake $100 bill.
Employees at both stores identified the married couple, according to police reports.
Police are also still investigating three other incidents.
In the March 20 case, Iowa City police responded to the area of Weber Elementary, 3850 Rohret Road, around 10:30 p.m. and found remnants of a "MacGyver" bomb, which appeared to have been set off near a temporary classroom on the north side of the school.
Topping the past week's events was the March 21 arrest of a Missouri man accused of assaulting Iowa City police Officer Chad Wallace.
The arrest comes after more than a three-month investigation.
Antoine Falls, 21, Marshall, Mo., is charged with assault on a peace officer after he reportedly assaulted Wallace Dec. 8, 2007, when he was on foot patrol in the Pheasant Ridge Apartment Complex, 2626 Bartelt Road.
Falls fled the scene, but police discovered a cell phone that he may have dropped. The phone later reportedly linked Falls to the incident.
Wallace returned to his regular police duties March 13.
Iowa City police made two arrests in a separate forgery case March 21 stemming from a March 18 incident when a husband and wife and another man allegedly tried to pass fake $100 bills at Kmart, 851 Hollywood Blvd., and Cigarette Outlet, 1901 Hollywood Blvd.
Katrice O'Neal, 24, 1960 Broadway Apt. B7, faces two counts of forgery, and Derrick Schaeffer, 29, of the same address, is charged with aiding and abetting. All the charges are felonies.
According to reports, O'Neal passed a $100 bill with Schaeffer to buy toilet paper and children's tights at Kmart around 1 p.m. March 18. An unidentified man with them but in a different checkout line also tried to pass a bill, which employees denied. The trio reportedly fled the store, and O'Neal then allegedly went to Cigarette Outlet around 7 p.m. to buy cigarettes with another fake $100 bill.
Employees at both stores identified the married couple, according to police reports.
Police are also still investigating three other incidents.
In the March 20 case, Iowa City police responded to the area of Weber Elementary, 3850 Rohret Road, around 10:30 p.m. and found remnants of a "MacGyver" bomb, which appeared to have been set off near a temporary classroom on the north side of the school.
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