Compiled by Andrew Brink andrew@dmcityview.com

On the clock
Des Moines Police — June 3

3 a.m.
Theft and assault in the 3200 block of East 26th Street. Des Moines Police officers were dispatched to meet with the victim. He was intoxicated and told police a “disjointed, incoherent story about how he was assaulted.” The victim told police he was assaulted by two suspects who stole his phone. The police returned to the scene of the alleged crime and spoke to the suspects, who reported that they had already made a police report regarding the incident and had turned the victim’s phone over to a police officer. Police officers then returned the victim to a Walgreens, from which point “he made his way home.”

3:23 a.m.
Assault in the 1500 block of Dean Avenue. The victim was at a party when she was asked by another female guest to go outside. Once outside, the two women began to argue and the female suspect hit the victim in the face causing bruising and a red mark below her left eye. The victim later went out to her car and discovered that one of her tires had been slashed and the rear windshield had been smashed.

4:36 p.m.
Assault at Hy-Vee, 2540 E. Euclid Ave. The victim was in Hy-Vee’s parking lot when she notified a parent that one of his children was about to fall out of his cart. According to the police report, the parent then became belligerent and called her a bitch. The victim said the parent approached her and she thought he was going to hit her. She said she ducked and the parent spit in her face. A witness saw the suspect spit on the victim. The victim wrote down the suspect’s vehicle plate number. The information matched the vehicle description given by the victim.

BUSTED

Name: Jeffrey David Beery

The story: Prisoner Eddie John Russo and suspect Beery were being transported to Polk County Jail in a police wagon. Both had their hands cuffed behind their backs and were seated across from each other. At one point, a police officer heard one of the men scream. The officer looked back and saw Russo being kicked in the head by Beery. Officers asked Beery to stop, but he continued to kick Russo. Police eventually separated the men. As a result of the attack, Russo received small lacerations to his head and nose and told police, “You guys will be hearing from my lawyer.” Beery, with a swollen forehead and abrasions, declined medical treatment and was transported to Polk County Jail in a separate police vehicle.

8,642 : the number of violent crimes reported in Iowa in 2005.

DOCKET DIVING

The following is from a recent ruling made by the Iowa Court of Appeals regarding the case of State of Iowa vs. Andrew Mark Harriman:

“Officer Albert Bovy stopped a vehicle in Waterloo because of a defective muffler. Andrew Harriman was sitting in the front-passenger seat of the vehicle with his hand in his pant pocket. Bovy told Harriman to remove his hand from the pocket. After discovering the driver was driving while barred, Bovy arrested the driver and placed him in the back of the patrol car. When Bovy returned to the vehicle, he asked Harriman to exit the car and place his hands on the trunk. Harriman once again put his hand in his right front pocket, and Bovy gave him a firm warning to keep his hands out of his pockets. Bovy then proceeded to frisk the outside of Harriman’s clothing. Bovy discovered a bulge in Harriman’s right front pocket that felt like sand in a plastic bag. When Harriman did not respond to Bovy’s inquiry about the contents of his pocket, Bovy reached into the pocket and removed two plastic bags full of narcotics. Harriman was arrested, and a subsequent search revealed a large bundle of cash and a metal container with another bag of narcotics. Later testing revealed the plastic bags contained more than nine grams of amphetamine.

Harriman filed a motion to suppress, contending the weapons frisk was an unconstitutional search of his person. The court denied this motion and, after a full jury trial, Harriman was convicted of possession of five or more grams of amphetamine with intent to deliver and failure to affix a drug tax stamp.

On appeal, Harriman claims the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress because the weapons frisk exceeded the scope of the ‘plain feel’ exception to the warrant requirement as articulated in Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366, 113 S. Ct. 2130, 124 L. Ed. 2d 334 (1993). … We conclude the contraband was properly discovered pursuant to the plain-feel exception to the warrant requirement. Therefore, the district court was correct in denying Harriman’s motion to suppress.”

Harriman is now serving a 25-year sentence at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Black Hawk County.

Most wanted

As of June 8, Littoree Dock, 23, and Demarco Henderson, 25, are wanted for first-degree robbery after assaulting and robbing a Des Moines law enforcement officer. Both are considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached. If you know where to find these fugitives, call Crime Stoppers at 223-1400.

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