Police

Gerald Charles Knorr, 61, homeless, was charged 8 a.m. Friday with disorderly conduct and simple assault at Adams Street.

According to a Creston Police report, Knorr called a bus driver a racial slur multiple times before he approached the driver threateningly and the bus driver pepper sprayed him.

Knorr was cited and released on a summons to appear.

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Richie Rodriguez, 29, 205 N. Division St., was charged 1:45 p.m. Sunday on a Polk County warrant for failing to appear on the original charge of violation of probation at the intersection of East Clark and South Walnut streets.

Rodriguez was being held in the Union County Jail without bond awaiting transfer to Polk County.