SIOUX CITY, IA (IRN) – A Sioux City eye clinic manager stole more than $6,100 in a credit card scheme and planned to use customer information to take out loans. KWWL-TV reports
36-year-old Amy Inniss-Reyes is charged with theft and tampering with records. Inniss-Reyes was managing two Exact Eye Care branches when she used three of her credit cards to obtain fraudulent refunds. The complaint says she also told investigators that she made copies of 20 patients’ personal records, intending to use them to obtain loans. The copies were recovered from her home.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A mother and her boyfriend were arrested Wednesday after police say they left three children alone in a Des Moines hotel room for several hours. WHO-TV reports the couple left the children – ages 10, 8, and 1 – under the care of the 10-year-old. The kids were left without food and had no way to reach the adults in case of an emergency. When the couple came back to the hotel, they weren’t cooperative with police and gave a vague story about where they had been.

BURLINGTON, IA (IRN) – Three homes were damaged with gunfire before police discovered a 19-year-old had been shot in a residential part of Burlington. WQAD-TV reports a vehicle nearby also had substantial damage. Witnesses say the person driving the vehicle fled on foot.

LINN COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A 33-year-old Lisbon man had to be flown to the hospital Wednesday night after a pair of ATV rollover crashes. KGAN-TV reports two people were riding separate ATV’s in Highway 30’s new construction zone when they both lost control of their vehicles causing them to roll. The other driver, a 14-year-old, had minor injuries.

SCOTCH GROVE, IA – A lightning strike is believed to have caused a fire that destroyed a historic building in the Jones County town of Scotch Grove Thursday evening. KCRG-TV reports the Scotch Grove Depot was struck by lightning around 4 p.m. That strike caused a fire that destroyed the unoccupied building that dates back to the 1870s.