Police are pursuing child endangerment and other charges.
Urbandale Police have charged a 52-year-old West Des Moines man with assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. The reported victim is a 12-year-old Urbandale girl.
From the West Des Moines police blotter comes a modern twist on the classic children’s fairy tale, “The Story of the Three Bears.”
Firefighters didn't find flames, but discovered plenty of damage at a West Glen Town Center building early Saturday morning.
A ceremony at tonight's West Des Moines City Council will recognize Rony, a decorated member of the city's police department.
Police charged him anyway.
A West Des Moines woman hasn’t seen her fiance – or vehicles worth about $48,000 – in six months.
Someone had a "paint party.” But that's not all that happened while a mother and her son were gone for a couple of hours.
The nursing service the woman’s family contracted with outsourced her care – and now some heirlooms have been reported missing to West Des Moines police.
Pilot project aims to curb the major causes of highway fatalities – speeding, following too closely and swerving.
An Urbandale woman reportedly told West Des Moines authorities she has been obtaining fraudulent prescriptions for hydrocodone for more than five years and “has an addiction problem.”
Woman reportedly said she and her friends were “just having fun” – fun that apparently included a hotel sign.
It’ll take more than a thief to let the air out of a club that mixes soccer with story time.
An allegedly intoxicated man didn’t want to walk home. If he had, things might have turned out differently.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
A car crash near the University Avenue exit along Interstate 35/80 in West Des Moines Friday afternoon killed one person, authorities said.
Student denied she had been smoking cigarettes, but when her belongings were searched, authorities found something else.
Clifford Orris Jackson Jr., 19, of Des Moines was arrested and charged with attempted murder and first-degree robbery.
Woman reportedly admitted she “punched” her friend’s husband in the face, but said it was “not a big deal.”
After police took report, victim inquired about obtianing a court order of protection.
Suspect reportedly cried and told West Des Moines police that if her friend was going to jail, she wanted to go, too.
Depending on what authorities found when they reviewed in-store surveillance video, the party may be over.
West Des Moines police take another report of trespassing, but in that case, the intruder only helped himself to coffee.
The sting was conducted Wednesday at an Ankeny hotel; six people were charged, according to authorities.
The arrest of a Bondurant man on forgery charges Tuesday may have thwarted a planned pharmacy robbery, according to a report on file at the West Des Moines Police Department.
A wife reportedly says her husband’s behavior has changed after a yearlong deployment in Afghanistan.
A four-year-old reportedly has come home before with injuries after visiting his father, including once when he said he got hurt while playing with a gun.
Victims initially didn't want to press charges, then one of them changed his mind.
A car that a man bought as a teen with his father was stolen when burglars robbed a house last week. He'd left it stored in a friend's garage.
A Dexter woman was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, third offense, after parking her car on a busy West Des Moines road.
A car that a man bought as a teen with his father had been in storage at a friend's house in West Des Moines. But burglars included the 1984 Firebird in their haul when they robbed the house last week.
Target loss prevention employees reportedly have been on the lookout for a Bondurant man.
Alleged thieves reportedly helped themselves to a computer, sweaters when no one was home to accept package deliveries.
Police were called after a woman claims her son head-butted her, causing her eye to swell.
Jailed on two counts of child endangerment, a woman reportedly told police she agreed to steal in exchange for cash to buy diapers.
In one case, a driver allegedly struck a victim in her right side with his SUV. In the other, the suspect reportedly “smacked” another driver’s mirror with his hand and kicked his car, causing $250 damage.
Police complied, but the ride they gave him wasn't to his home.
Suspect reportedly fled on foot after stabbing outside Clive bar and was apprehended by West Des Moines police officers.
Restroom occupant reportedly didn't react well to knocking at a West Des Moines bar.
The woman told police the ring was lost by her daughter, who took it with her when she went shopping at Jordan Creek Town Center.