Metro Edition The Des Moines Register Page2B Thursday, August 21, 2008 Man wanted in Ankeny hit-and-run is arrested gotiating Moss' surrender. "Any time we deal with an individual who is wanted for murder, the assumption has to be that he's dangerous," Rochester Police Capt. Brian Winters told the Rochester Post-Bulletin. "We didn't feel there was any need to rush in and put anyone at risk." Moss took no hostages and was not carrying a weapon when he turned himself in around 12:30 p.m., police said. Mikulec said Ankeny detectives would be in Rochester for the next day or two to interview Moss, talk with apartment-complex residents, and possibly search the apartment.
by his own vehicle. He later died of his injuries. Mikulec said last month the incident looked like a drug deal gone bad, and on Wednesday he still believed that was the case. He said police identified the driver as Moss, and soon had reason to suspect Moss purposely dragged Hughes into a curb. In the past 10 days police traced Moss' movements to Rochester and then to an apartment there.
Rochester officers were posted at the scene Tuesday night. Early Wednesday, with reinforcements from the local sheriff's office, they evacuated the building of all residents and began ne said Wednesday. "It became apparent that there might have been an intentional act," Mikulec said of the July 21 incident where witnesses Moss turned himself in after a standoff in Minnesota. saw a man dragged from the passenger-side door of a sport utility vehicle, starting at the drive-through of a bank in Ankeny. Andrew Hughes, 43, of Roland was found injured several blocks away and taken to the hospital.
Police said Hughes was dragged ffPhl FryT-W it Vx K. I '-X it At 1 -4 iWf i A jL, W. hi IM'jX r' Metro Communities From Register staff and news services I DES MOINES 1 50 Iraq-deployed Marines to return About 150 Iowa-based Marine reservists will return to Des Moines on Saturday after spending the past seven months on combat duty in Iraq's Anbar province, a military official confirmed Wednesday. The Marines are members of Company 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division of Fort Des Moines, which previously completed a tour of Iraq in 2004 and 2005, said Lt. Col.
Phil Farr, a unit spokesman. The reservists are scheduled to arrive at the Des Moines airport on a charter flight at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. They will board buses escorted by Des Moines police cars in a convoy along Army Post Road to Fort Des Moines. "We would like people to line the route" to welcome the Marines home, Farr said.
Friends and family members will be at the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center at Fort Des Moines to celebrate the company's homecoming. The unit, which includes Marine infantrymen and a handful of sailors who were deployed as Navy medical corpsmen, has members from Iowa and surrounding Midwestern states, Farr said. The reservists flew back to the United States last week and are at the Marine Corps base at Twentynine Palms, undergoing processing to be released from active duty. Restoration project opening to be delayed A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Restoration Ingersoll project set for today has been postponed. The North of Grand Neighborhood Association and the Ingersoll Business Association planned to celebrate the completion of the first phase of a $2.9 million restoration project, but delays in the delivery of sidewalk furniture forced a postponement.
Man charged in restaurant holdup Des Moines police have filed a long list of charges against a man who allegedly committed a holdup of a KFC restaurant. Earl Jamare Griffin, 21, is charged with second-degree kidnapping, first-degree robbery, second-degree burglary, first-degree theft and other crimes. Police Sgt. Vince Valdez said investigators got a tip that led to Griffin's arrest after photos of the holdup were released. The restaurant at 4815 S.W.
Ninth St. was robbed on Sunday. An employee was walking to her vehicle about 10:30 p.m. when she was confronted by a man with a handgun. He allegedly told her to open the door to the restaurant.
The man followed her inside where another employee was counting money, police said. They said the gunman grabbed the money and also took cash from the wallet of one of the employees. Police said the gunman ordered the employees into a cooler and then took a car belonging to one of them. The car was located a short time later. Police, patrol crack down on speeders Des Moines police and the Iowa State Patrol were out in force on Interstate Highway 235 on Tuesday, cracking down on speeding motorists and scofflaws.
Eleven officers and troopers wrote 85 speeding tickets. The State Patrol also issued 1 1 warnings. The highest speed recorded on Tuesday was 84 mph in a 55 mph zone. A total of 127 tickets were written, including four for no driver's license and nine for failure to wear a seat belt. Four motorists were told to make repairs to their vehicles and 13 drivers were ticketed for failure to show proof of insurance.
I INDIANOLA Judge dismisses man's bankruptcy filing A federal judge agreed on Wednesday to dismiss the bankruptcy filing of an Indianola man who awaits trial on fraud and firearms charges, allegedly committed while he was enrolled in a federal witness protection program. Nicholas Palazzo, 52, and his wife, Deborah, 58, filed for bankruptcy on April 10, listing $122,600 in assets and $316,594 in debts. Federal agents arrested Nicholas Palazzo on charges of wire fraud and felony possession of a firearm more than a month before the bankruptcy filing. The Palazzos' attorney, Karen Taylor of Taylor Law Offices in Des Moines, moved on May 22 to dismiss the couple's filing, citing a federal law requiring at least eight years between filings. Court records show Deborah Palazzo filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Pennsylvania in 2002 under the names Deborah A.
Hockycko and Deborah A. Tessari. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials declined to comment on allegations that Deborah and Nicholas Palazzo were in witness protection. Jerry Capeci, a reporter from New York, reported in March that Nicholas Palazzo was formerly known as Michael Tessari, a con man convicted of bilking Pennsylvania and North Carolina residents out of nearly $10 million. Tessari was sentenced to 1 1 years in federal prison in 1996.
According to Capeci, Tessari was released from prison under the name Palazzo after he leaked valuable information about a mobster. Nicholas Palazzo's fraud trial recently was postponed from Aug. 25 to at least Sept. 29. I URBANDALE Man run over fatally by mail tractor A 64-year-old man was run over and killed by a mail tractor he was operating Wednesday.
Urbandale Police Department spokesman Sgt. Dave Disney said the man, whose name was not released pending notification of his family, was moving trailers at a bulk mail center, 4000 109th around 6:30 a.m. Disney said the man put the tractor in reverse and "for whatever reason" stepped out of it "to check on something." He was killed instantly. Disney said another employee found the man shortly before 7:30 a.m. and called paramedics.
"There is no indication of mechanical failure. The equipment was in proper working order. Investigators tested the vehicle, did a reconstruction," Disney said. "It appears accidental." Police find Michael Moss in Rochester, a month after the incident. By GUNNAR OLSON golsondmreg.com A man police believe was the driver in last month's fatal hit-and-run accident in Ankeny was arrested Wednesday in Rochester, following a nearly eight-hour standoff with local authorities.
Michael Donte Moss, 25, of Des Moines will be charged with first-degree murder upon his return to Iowa, which could be as early as next week, Ankeny Police Chief Gary Mikulec Fire deaths climb Tk fatalities in Iowa has already reached the total for last year. 2002 2004 ca Through Aug. 20 Source: State fire marshal The Register FIRE FROM PAGE IB I heard screaming and looked out the window. I heard 'Fire, and saw them running out. "Justin had Nathan in his arms.
He gave him to Dawnielle and went back for Ashton." Pierson said Justin Gillil-and was unable to get back inside the home. "It was too hot. He tried everything he could to get to him, but it was just too late. Too hot." A neighbor tried to fight the fire with a garden hose until firefighters from several Dallas County departments arrived to fight the flames. One firefighter suffered minor injuries in the rescue attempt.
De Soto Fire Chief Tim Murray said electrical wiring in the ceiling of the boy's room might have started the fire. He did not know if the mobile home had a smoke detector. But he knows the family had little time to escape. "The father had burns on his back from rescuing the little one," Murray said. "I think ceiling debris was falling on him.
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"I wish I had a good answer for why we are ahead of last year," state Fire Marshal James F. Kenkel said. "I don't know about are shown with their children, died after being trapped in the 1 a.m. Wednesday. the fire in De Soto, but we know that in some of these fires there were no smoke detectors, or at least no working smoke detectors." Ten of the fatal fires this year happened in structures with no detector or with a detector with no battery.
"Our homes are becoming more combustible and flammable today because of Mr- i SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER Nathan and Ashton, in this family's mobile home when the use of foam and plastics in furniture and clothing and even some construction materials," Kenkel said. "A fire tends to burn more rapidly. People have less time than they realize to get out." Neighbors said the Gilliland family had no insurance. Donations will be accepted at Earlham Savings Bank. Today's staff recommendations METROMIX Art for the anti-snob: Visit desmoines.metromix.com for a fall guide to unpretentious arts and culture events in Des Moines.
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