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Iowa Mom Charged With Leaving 4 Kids Alone While She Jetted Off to Germany

September 30, 2017 By HardBoiledNews Staff Leave a Comment

Erin Lee Macke overlooking the Danube River

JOHNSTON, Iowa — Talk about an absentee parent.

An Iowa mom was arrested and charged with child endangerment after leaving her four kids at home alone while she jetted off to Germany for a 10-day holiday, police said.

Erin Lee Macke, 30, left her children, two aged 12 and the others 6 and 7, behind when she flew out of town on Sept. 20, the Johnston Police Department said.

Cops say she also left them with an unsecured gun that the kids were aware was in the house.

But a day after she left, the father of two of the children called from his home in Texas and spoke to one of the kids who told him they were alone, so he contacted police.

Officers notified child protective services and then made contact with Macke in Germany and told her she need to come back right away.

Macke returned to Johnston on Sept. 28 and was taken into custody. She was charged with four counts of child endangerment and with making a firearm available to a person under the age of 21. She was held on $9,000 bond

The kids have been placed with relatives.

Man Tries to Deposit $1 Million Bill, Gets Go Straight to Jail Card Instead

August 6, 2017 By HardBoiledNews Staff Leave a Comment

If you needed proof about the wisdom of staying off drugs, Dennis Strickland is it

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Here are a million reasons to stay off drugs.

An Iowa man landed behind bars after he tried to deposit a bogus $1 million at a bank, leading the teller to call cops, who later discovered a bag of crystal meth in his pocket.

Dennis Strickland, 33, allegedly walked into a Northwest Bank in Sioux City on Thursday afternoon and tried to pass off the suspect note, KELO-TV reported.

Bank employees then called cops who asked Strickland if he had more funny money on him after hearing paper rustling in his pockets. As he pulled the contents of his pockets out, a bag of meth fell to the floor.

Strickland has been charged with possession of a controlled substance and was held on $1,000 bond.

Overweight Grain Truck Crushes Iowa Bridge

May 7, 2017 By HardBoiledNews Staff Leave a Comment

The bridge didn’t have a chance

CRESCO, Iowa — They put those weight limit signs on bridges for a reason, apparently.

A bridge in toppled into the Upper Iowa River when grain truck tried crossing it while carrying 10 times the weight the span said it was designed to carry, police said.

The driver was uninjured, but the small bridge was totally destroyed and had entirely fallen into the river with the truck on top of it.

County officials said the truck was carrying approximately 30 tons of feed grain and that the driver appeared to have missed the large signs clearly stating the bridge could only hold three tons.

Officials in Wiinneshiek County say it will take some time to clear the debris and until then, warned canoers and kayakers to avoid that stretch of the river. Motorists were also advised to come up with alternate routes for some time until the bridge can be rebuilt.

Trump Voter Proves Trump Right On Voter Fraud

October 28, 2016 By HardBoiledNews Staff Leave a Comment

Terri Lynn Rote is charged with trying to vote for Donald Trump twice

DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump has warned his supporters to be on the lookout for widespread voter fraud. Turns out they don’t have to look too far.

An outspoken Trump supporter in Iowa has been arrested for attempting to vote twice for Trump in a rare case of actual voter fraud.

According to the Des Moines Register, 55-year-old Terri Lynn Rote, a registered Republican, cast an early voting ballot at one location and then attempted to cast a second vote at a satellite voting station.

Apparently she took Trump’s warnings that the polls are rigged a bit too seriously.

“I wasn’t planning on doing it twice, it was spur of the moment,” Rote told Iowa Public Radio. “The polls are rigged.”

She was charged with felony election misconduct and released on $5,000 bond.

Polk County Auditor Jamie Fitzgerald says he has reported two other voter fraud cases to police this election, but they are the first he has encountered in 12 years on the job. The other two cases people sending in mail-in ballots and then attempting to vote in person.

Meanwhile, two people in Florida and another in Virginia were charged with voter fraud. None of the cases involved the casting of any votes.

In Florida, one person was charged with filling out bogus registration forms as part of a voter drive by a medical marijuana group. Another woman was accused of tampering with absentee ballots at the Miami-Dade Elections Department by filling in votes on ballots where the vote for a mayoral race was left blank. In Virginia, a man was charged with submitting bogus registrations as part of a voter drive.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-fraud-idUSKCN12S213?il=0