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Iowa sheriff won’t honor neighboring town’s arrests

06/13/2019 Law Enforcement News

By: The Associated Press, policeone.com

DURANT, Iowa — An unusual circumstance let a speeding drunken driver avoid a trip to jail after her recent arrest in this small eastern Iowa town: the sheriff isn’t honoring arrests made in Durant.

Saying he cannot rely on the truthfulness of officers in the farming community of 1,800 people about 165 miles (265 kilometers) east of Des Moines, Cedar County Sheriff Warren Wethington has declared that his jail will not book any suspects whom they arrest for the foreseeable future. He has barred Durant officers from setting foot in the county law enforcement center and ordered his own deputies to not base any arrests on the observations of Durant officers.

Iowa Sheriff Warren Wethington poses for a portrait at his office in Tipton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)
Wethington’s directive, issued last month, has won him praise from residents, who see it as a rare public stand against police misconduct by a law enforcement official. But it has escalated his long-running feud with Dawn Smith, chairwoman of the Cedar County Board of Supervisors, whose husband, Robert Smith, is the Durant officer at the center of the sheriff’s allegations.

 

Full story: https://www.policeone.com/chiefs-sheriffs/articles/484134006-Iowa-sheriff-wont-honor-neighboring-towns-arrests/

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