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Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Yahoo
Bettendorf woman charged with hosting drug house
A 40-year-old Bettendorf woman was in custody Saturday after Bettendorf Police say she hosted a drug house where a methamphetamine pipe and narcotics were found, according to Scott County Court records. Alisha Keckler faces a felony charge of gathering where controlled substances are used and a serious misdemeanor charge of unlawful possession of prescription drugs, court records say. Arrest affidavits say that, during the last two-plus years, a residence on the 600 block of 6th Street in Bettendorf 'has been well known to the Bettendorf Police Department to be a residence frequented by narcotics users/dealers.' A task force recently purchased methamphetamine with a dealer followed from this residence, say affidavits, which show 'The residence is owned by (Keckler) who resides at this residence' and 'is known to use meth.' On Feb. 25, a search warrant was executed at the residence, where three people were inside. After she was read her Miranda Rights, Keckler admitted to being an occasional meth user, and said 'a number of people come and go from the residence and there would likely be drug paraphernalia located during a search,' according to affidavits. One tenant said a box of drug paraphernalia that gets rotated from bedroom to bedroom would be in the house. A roommate who was interviewed admitted to being a meth user. A meth bong was in plain view on a shelf. A search of the house yielded a used meth pipe in Keckler's bedroom along with a plastic bag containing eight Gabapentin pills (non-scheduled/prescription-only narcotic.) No prescription was located for the Gabapentin, affidavits show. In Keckler's bedroom was a plate containing meth residue, according to affidavits, which say that in the living room in plain view were a meth pipe and a plate containing meth residue. Keckler, who was being held on $6,000 bond on Saturday in Scott County Jail, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing March 18 in Scott County Court. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
First National Bank named Lender of the Year
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A Sioux Falls bank has been recognized for the work they do to help small businesses. In the 2024 fiscal year, First National Bank gave out 25 loans totaling over 8 and a half million dollars to support small businesses in the Sioux Falls area. 'We are incredibly proud of our teammates that work and invest a ton and ton of time with small business clients,' Jeremy Keckler, a business banking manager at First National Bank, said. 'One of the things our bankers do, I think, a really good job is help plug those small business owners into the community, into the business community.' Because of that work, First National Bank was named Lender of the Year by the South Dakota District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. DOGE having an impact in South Dakota 'The SBA has been a tremendous partner along the way and there's a number of organizations that help promote small business lending in Sioux Falls,' Keckler said. 'We're incredibly fortunate to operate in this business environment, it's about as good as a business environment as you could.' This is the fourth time First National Bank has won a lending award and Keckler says supporting small businesses is a huge part of who they are as a company. 'Small business is kind of our lifeblood in not only the community of Sioux Falls but also our bank,' Keckler said. 'We were founded on a small business banking platform and then have done a ton of small ag lending and small business lending. So it's kind of the backbone of our bank as well.' And supporting small businesses means supporting economic growth. 'Small business, you know, they continue to produce about two out of three job creations in the United States year over year and they're responsible for about half of our GDP,' Keckler said. 'So it's a really, really important community.' This Lender of the Year Award was given to First National Bank because they closed the most small business loans and had the highest dollar value of small business loans in the state. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
