Friday, March 09, 2007

IT RAINED ALL AFTERNOON. HIGH OF 45. NICE FORECAST FOR TOMORROW AND SUNDAY AND EARLY NEXT WEEK.....FINIALLY.

A MAQUOKETA WOMAN, KAREN FRANZEN, AGE 39, IS IN A DAVENPORT HOSPITAL WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND TO HER HIP AND IT IS UNCLEAR HOW SHE WAS INJURED. JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF RUSS KETTMANN SAID THEY ARE INVESTIGATING THE INCIDENT, BUT HAVE NOT FILED CHARGES CONCERNING THE SHOOTING. JACKSON COUNTY DEPUTY RUSS LONG SAID SCOTT COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES CALLED JACKSON COUNTY AT 9:55 LAST NIGHT. THEY SAID JAY YEAGER, AGE 44, OF MAQUOKETA, WAS DRIVING 100 MPH ON HIGHWAY 61 IN SCOTT COUNTY AND DEPUTIES THERE STOPPED HIS VEHICLE. THEY FOUND FRANZEN IN THE BACK SEAT SUFFERING FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HIP. SHE WAS TAKEN BY PRIVATE VEHICLE TO GENESIS EAST HOSPITAL AND LATER TRANSFERRED TO GENESIS WEST. SHE UNDERWENT SURGERY THIS MORNING AND HER INJURIES ARE NOT CONSIDERED LIFE THREATENING. DEPUTY LONG SAID THEY HAVE NOT DETERMINED WHAT HAPPENED. THE SHOOTING MAY HAVE OCCURED IN JACKSON COUNTY, BUT DEPUTIES ARE NOT CLEAR ON THE SITUATION OR LOCATION. YEAGER APPARENTLY DROVE HIS TRUCK TO HIS FATHER, MERLIN YEAGER'S RESIDENCE IN RURAL MAQUOKETA, AND THEN TOOK HIS FATHER'S VEHICLE WITH FRANZEN IN IT TOWARD SCOTT COUNTY. LONG SAID TWO BULLET HOLES WERE FOUND IN JAY YEARGER'S TRUCK. YEAGER IS N OW IN THE JACKSON COUNTY JAIL ON UNRELATED DRUG CHARGES. HE IS BEING HELD ON $1,975 CASH BOND AND THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN CALLED IN TO ASSIST WITH THE INVESTIGATION.

THAT'S MY REPORT FOR ANOTHER WEEK. NOTE THE PHOTO
THAT WAS ENTERED HERE EARLIER TODAY...
AND..
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.'

DENNIS VOY

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