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1/6/2017
By Tom Marshall
Senior Advocate writer
A Mt. Sterling man is back in Iowa where he faces a murder charge.
A prisoner transport contracting company came to pick up Arthur Jarrod “A.J.” Crum, 36, Saturday (New Year’s Eve) from the Montgomery County Regional Jail where he has been held since Sept. 25.
With a governor’s warrant served on Crum at the jail just before Christmas he was cleared for extradition back to Iowa.
Crum reportedly admitted to shooting to death a man in Council Bluffs, Iowa, after authorities responded to a domestic complaint involving his mother in Camargo.
Upon his arrest in the Camargo incident, Crum reportedly stated that he wanted to talk to a detective “to get something off his chest.”
It was then, authorities said, when he reportedly confessed to shooting Larry Scott multiple times in Council Bluffs during a dispute over a debt of drug money owed.
Crum was already a suspect in the Iowa slaying when he reportedly confessed to Montgomery County Sheriff’s Det./Sgt. Ralph Charles.
Following the shooting, Crum, who was reportedly living as a transient, returned to Montgomery County. He reportedly told investigators that he fled Iowa because a drug dealer known by the nickname “Oklahoma” was trying to kill him.
During the domestic incident in Camargo, Crum reportedly threw a can of pop that hit his mother in the arm and head. She called for law enforcement.
Authorities in Iowa were attempting to make a case against Crum when he reportedly made his confession here.
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