(Creston) Creston Police arrested 49-year-old Percy James Mathews Jr. from Nebraska on Monday at the Greater Regional Medical Center on a Douglas County Warrant for 1st– degree Murder and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony. Officers’ transported Mathews to the Union County Jail and held him on no bond while he awaited extradition to Nebraska.
In a separate case, Police arrested 35-year-old Sunita Joann Phipps of Creston at her residence for a charge of an animal at large. Authorities released Phipps on a Promise to Appear.
