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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Michael Brandstrom, age 29, of Council Bluffs, to 480 months in prison. He was sentenced to 360 months imprisonment for Production of Child Pornography and 120 months to Possession of Child Pornography, to run consecutively. The federal sentence will be served concurrently with his prison sentence in Pottawattamie County State Court for Kidnapping in the Third Degree and Lascivious Acts with a Child. Brandstrom was ordered to serve fifteen years of supervised release to follow...

A man twice who has been twice convicted of rape and placed on monitored release since 2013 will be evaluated by another doctor before a judge determines Sept. 5 whether he'll be free to move about the county unsupervised. Tibor Karsai, 64, was convicted of raping a 19-year-old woman in Santa Barbara County in 1974 and received an eight-year prison sentence for the crime. He was paroled in 1980 and later that year was convicted of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old girl in Auburn. For that crime, Karsai was sentenced to 26 years. He was deemed a sexually violent predator...