Iowa senator arrested during RAGBRAI in Sac County

[TexasTowelie]

SAC CITY, Iowa -- An Iowa legislator was arrested Monday near Carnarvon after refusing to obey a sheriff sergeant's orders to clear a road during RAGBRAI's trek through rural Sac County.

State Sen. Adrian Dickey, a Republican who represents District 44 in southeast Iowa, was arrested and booked into the Sac County Jail on a simple misdemeanor charge of interference with official acts.

Sac County Sheriff's Sgt. Jonathan Meyer said in a complaint filed in Sac County District Court that a big party had stopped in the middle of the road on Quincy Avenue. The party had been there since 2:42 p.m., and Meyer said he approached Dickey at 4:10 p.m. and asked them to move so he could open the road.

After Dickey told Meyer he wasn't going to move, "I advised him he needed to move on otherwise he would be going to jail. He advised me to arrest him," Meyer said in his complaint.

Read more: https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/crime-courts/ragbrai-arrest-sac-county-adrian-dickey/article_4ac4ecf2-2c04-11ee-82cc-d7492640548b.html

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1. The jackass introduced legislation in the 2022 session to make it illegal to arrest RABRAI riders ..

... and now RAGBRAI has been taken over by $1000+ bikes and private chefs. It used to be a fun thing in '79 and the 80s and 90s. People in small towns would provide camping and meals. Now it's an excuse to act like ingrates on two wheels. And block traffic as if it were a Critical Mass protest in downtown Chicago.