Father Charged with Neglecting Son in Case of Handgun Taken to School: Johnston Police Reports

Editor's note: All information is provided by the Johnston Police Department in incident reports through May 9. Dates below are when the incident was reported or occurred, not when an arrest or charges were filed. Charges do not always result in convictions.

May 7

A woman who lives in the 10300 block of Providence Drive reported the violation of a no-contact order.

Louis Friestad IV, 31, of 6582 N.W. 56th St., Johnston, was charged with making a handgun available to a person younger than 21, and neglect or abandonment of a dependent person. Police said Friestad left his gun accessible to his 8-year-old son, and the second-grader took the unloaded weapon to Lawson Elementary School.

A resident in the 6607 block of Gables Way reported that his GPS was stolen from his unlocked vehicle.

May 9

A Johnston High School student reported receiving harassing phone calls and Twitter postings from students outside the metro area.

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