April 16, 2024

Creston death under investigation

Press release from the Department of Public Safety

CRESTON - On

February 14, 2018, at approxhnately 8:17 p.m., the Union County Dispatch Center received a call to do a welfare check at a residence located 300 East Montgomery, Apartment 3 in Creston, Iowa. Upon arriving and entering the residence, Creston Police Department officers discovered the body of a deceased male.

The victim has been identified as Paul Allen Scheel, 45. The body was transported to the Office of the Iowa State Medical Examiner's office in Ankeny, Iowa where an autopsy will be conducted.

The death investigation is being treated as a suspicious death at this time. If the  public has any information regardiag Scheel they are asked to call the Union County  Law Enforcement Center at (641) 782-8402.

This is an ongoing investigation being worked jointly by the Creston Police Department and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

No further information will be released at this time.