Klondike (far western Lyon County), Iowa — A Canton, South Dakota woman was arrested after an incident in and near the Big Sioux River at Klondike on Labor Day Monday.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office tells us their deputies responded to the Klondike Bridge on the state line near Ashley Avenue and 180th Street for a report of a naked female under the influence of drugs in the river.
They tell us they were eventually able to help the woman, later identified as 35-year-old Jennifer Chatwell of Canton, to shore where Larchwood EMS and the Larchwood Fire Department assisted with getting her safely to the parking lot where Lyon County Ambulance was waiting. She was taken to Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital Avera in Rock Rapids.
Chatwell’s vehicle was located in South Dakota where it had been involved in a collision.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office tells us that later that evening, about 9:00 p.m., their deputies were called back to the hospital where Chatwell was now “causing a scene.”
They say that Chatwell was placed under arrest for public intoxication and was transported to the Lyon County Jail. She was released on bond the next day.
